CITY HALL – With four new black nominees, an aldermanic committee seemed ready Tuesday to break a logjam and approve a package of nine city nominees to the Board of…
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Groups gather to coordinate efforts against gun violence
MIDTOWN – Community activists, nonprofits, politicians, clergy, support groups and like-minded souls assembled on Nov 16 to discuss the problem of gun violence and ways to combat it. The assembly took…
Krewson names 4 new nominees for freeholders board
CITY HALL – In a letter to Aldermanic President Lewis Reed and Fourth Ward Alderman Samuel Moore Tuesday morning, Mayor Lyda Krewson named four new nominees for the Board of…
Childhood trauma still affects adults, nonprofit warns
DUTCHTOWN – The Thomas Dunn Learning Center, 3113 Gasconade St., hosted a trauma awareness presentation on Nov. 14 sponsored by Alive and Well Communities. The presentation explored the widespread impact of…
Aldermen support $15 hourly wage for janitors
CITY HALL – Four years after Missouri stopped the city’s attempt to raise the minimum wage in St. Louis, the Board of Aldermen returned to pressure the state to move…
Activist sues for SLMPD data on racial profiling
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A self-described advocate for police accountability is suing St. Louis for the release of police stop records that he believes could prove certain officers target black…
Conversion therapy bill stirs sharply different claims
CITY HALL – Witnesses at an aldermanic hearing Wednesday on a bill to ban a therapy that attempts to change a child’s sexual orientation made sharply different claims about the…
Marshals crackdown netted 162 arrests, including man linked to death of boy, 7
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that 162 fugitives, including murder suspects, gang members and others with violent criminal pasts, were arrested during a three-month crackdown in the St.…
New list of potential city freeholders could resolve logjam
CITY HALL – Officials hope a logjam in naming nine city members of the new Board of Freeholders for the city and county will break at a committee meeting of…
More lack health insurance; Obamacare sign-ups are under way
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans are going without health insurance, and stable premiums plus greater choice next year under the Affordable Care Act health law aren’t likely to reverse that.…
No chunks of St. Louis meteor found yet
ST. LOUIS – NASA says a meteor seen streaking through the sky behind the Gateway Arch was a basketball-size hunk of rock that broke off from an asteroid belt between…
Freeholders hold first meeting, with no city members
CITY HALL – Members of the new Board of Freeholders for St. Louis and St. Louis County held its first meeting on Tuesday and spent much of their time hearing…