DOWNTOWN – A vote taken Friday leaves greater doubt whether the Loop Trolley will ever ride again. A motion in a combined meeting of two subcommittees of the Bi-State Development…
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New interactive kiosks provide extra information downtown, elsewhere
ST. LOUIS – At about eight feet tall, the new interactive digital kiosks downtown look like Paul Bunyan’s cellphone. In fact, some city officials hope they’ll make a giant improvement…
ESOP alleges lying, bias, lack of action by police union
ST. LOUIS – Black city residents are not the only ones with gripes about race relations with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Even black police officers continue mounting charges…
Speakers, marchers honor MLK
ST. LOUIS – Blacks and whites together braved frigid temperatures Monday to celebrate the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, starting with a program downtown at the Old…
Reed pushes for breakthrough on freeholders board
CITY HALL – Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed plans to spend the week turning up the heat to get a resolution to the stalled effort to name nine city…
Report on mass incarceration underlines need for reform
ST. LOUIS – A new report about mass incarceration of blacks in the U.S., and Missouri in particular, supports the need for the kind of criminal justice reform St. Louis…
Churches, nonprofit cure medical debt for 11,108 Missouri families
ST. LOUIS – Millions in medical bill debt for 11,108 Missouri families have been cured by The Deaconess Foundation, area church groups and RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that locates,…
Resolution seeks to close city workhouse
CITY HALL – A resolution now before the Board of Aldermen outlines a plan to use pressure to force the city to close its much-criticized Medium Security Institution. The resolution…
Racist rant attacks circuit attorney's backers as ESOP supports federal lawsuit
ST. LOUIS – One day after six fellow reform-minded black female lead prosecuting attorneys converged on St. Louis to rally for Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner and her federal lawsuit alleging…
King's ideals, statue will be focus of Freedom March, Peace Walk
FOUNTAIN PARK – The bells have sounded, beginning the official statewide Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. The Martin Luther King holiday kick-off celebration was held on Saturday, Jan.…
Gardner files federal lawsuit, claims racist conspiracy
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner filed on Monday what she called an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, the local police union and…
Documentary on Franks is nominated for Oscar
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A documentary about Missouri activist and former state representative Bruce Franks Jr. was nominated Monday for an Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category. “St. Louis…