Ten years after his death, a public exhibit celebrating the life of Michael Brown Jr. is now on display, and St.Louis’ County Executive is speaking out about court reforms addressing issues identified in the 2015 Ferguson Report. County Executive Dr. Sam Page says the Ferguson Report, conducted in response to Brown’s shooting death by a…
Federal food safety officials say three people have now died in a listeria food poisoning outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meats. The overall number of people sickened has risen to 43. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news release Thursday that the additional death happened in Virginia. The other two…
Officials in both Missouri and Illinois are looking public input to improve transportation issues. In Illinois, applications are now open for the Transportation Enhancement Program. Local governments, non-profits, and private entities can now apply for awards of up to $3 million for projects such as bike and walking trails, streetscape beautification, and other improvements that…
Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, looking to strengthen the Democratic ticket in Midwestern states. She’ll introduce Walz at a rally Tuesday evening in Philadelphia. Harris was the only candidate eligible to receive votes after no other candidate qualified by a deadline last week. She officially claimed…
New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges have launched, but not everywhere. Most Republican-led states challenged the rule from President Joe Biden’s administration, took effect Thursday. In response, judges have blocked enforcement in 21 states plus hundreds of individual schools and colleges. Some states already have policies that protect transgender students.…
Applications are now open for a grant program promoting agriculture and economic development in exclusively urban areas. Last year in the STL Metro, the Grow Health Center and Great House Garden were awarded $10,000 grants from the MO Dept. Of Agriculture for reimbursement of expenses for their projects developing small agribusinesses, and applications for this…
Black leaders in St. Louis say politics and racism are keeping a wrongly convicted man behind bars. At a press conference in STL Tuesday, leaders of the Missouri NAACP and other organizations say politics and racism are behind the state attorney general’s effort to keep a wrongly convicted man locked up, more than a week…
Former President Donald Trump has said in a radio interview that Vice President Kamala Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people” and appeared to agree with a host who called her Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff, “a crappy Jew.” Trump spoke Tuesday on radio station WABC. The Republican’s campaign earlier announced that he will travel to Atlanta on…
The Metro Air Support Unit is celebrating 20 years of protecting both citizens and law enforcement. It was in early 2004 that the STL County Police Chief, the STL Metropolitan Police Chief, and the St.Charles County Sheriff joined forces to create the Metro Air Support Unit, which now consists five police helicopters that work to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. The rule is to take effect on Aug. 1. A federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement in six additional states, bringing…