BENTON PARK WEST – Back in the 1950s, Carol Schultheis recalls, teenagers had more in mind than fries and steakburgers when they sat in their cars on the parking lot…
Month: October 2019
Closed St. Louis charter school owes Missouri millions, state auditor says
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — State Auditor Nicole Galloway says a closed St. Louis charter school was overpaid $1.4 million after falsifying attendance records. Galloway’s office announced Tuesday that an audit…
The curious tale of the St. Louis street barriers
Story and photos by JACK GRONE When Henning Lohse-Busch and his wife, Emily, relocated a few years ago from Chicago to her hometown of St. Louis, he was soon struck…
State agency tracked Planned Parenthood patients' periods
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s health department director said Tuesday that he had tracked the menstrual cycles of Planned Parenthood patients as part of an effort to identify what the…
Sav A Lot grocery brings new life to food desert
HAMILTON HEIGHTS – When Pete’s Shur Save grocery store packed its bags and moved to University City in December 2016, it left a void beyond another vacant lot at Page and…
Ex-FBI agent hired by Gardner in Greitens case faces March trial
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former FBI agent hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to help investigate then-Gov. Eric Greitens is scheduled to go on trial next year…
Spencer, transportation committee clash on tabling airport privatization vote bill
CITY HALL – Depending on who is talking, action by an aldermanic committee last week could either advance proposals to vote on any plan to privatize St. Louis Lambert International…
Data breach at health center hits up to 152,000
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials at a St. Louis health center that serves needy, uninsured residents say a cyberattack has caused a data breach that potentially affected 152,000 people. The…
Bill would ban declawing of cats as cruel and inhumane
CITY HALL – A certified animal lover, Christine Ingrassia keeps her own cat, two foster cats, and a dog. In the past, she’s had cats declawed. But no more. And…
City awards $1 million contract to cut down 2,000 dead and diseased trees
CITY HALL – In St. Louis, it’s time to clear away a bunch of old trees – a couple of thousand of them, to be exact. The city’s Board of…
350-pound baby due next summer at the zoo
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The popular elephants exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo will grow by one next year. The zoo said Thursday that Rani, a 23-year-old Asian elephant, is…
North side aldermen stall freeholders nominations
CITY HALL – As the apparent deadline for approving the city’s nine members of a freeholders board passed, action stalled on the issue of representation for north St. Louis. An…