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…
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Mayor orders $15 minimum wage for city civil service workers
CITY HALL – Starting in the middle of February, all civil service employees working for the city of St. Louis will make at least $15 an hour. The change will…
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…
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,…
City officially grounds airport privatization effort
CITY HALL – The Board of Estimate and Apportionment met for less than three minutes on Wednesday, long enough to say a final “good riddance” to a much-criticized study on…
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…
Police chief, aldermen clash in committee meeting
CITY HALL – Questions about reorganizing the city police department brought sharp clashes Wednesday between police Chief John Hayden and members of a Board of Aldermen committee. Twenty-First Ward Alderman…
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.…
South Side track offered deadly path to racing glory
DUTCHTOWN – On the last day of August 1912, a local newspaper told of that night’s debut of an exciting new sport in St. Louis that was taking cities including…
Officials' struggles with mental health put focus on suicide rate
ST. LOUIS – Suicides are on the rise in the U.S. and in St. Louis, where high-profile individuals underscore the upswing. In August 2019, then-state Rep. Bruce Franks gave up…
Five downtown I-64 ramps to close Feb. 3
ST. LOUIS – As part of a project to reconfigure traffic patterns to accommodate the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Major League Soccer stadium, five I-64 ramps downtown will close…