ST. LOUIS (AP) – Crowds lined the streets of downtown St. Louis for the 37th annual Pridefest parade. Mayor Francis Slay on Sunday walked in the lead of the parade, which also included the police chief, the fire chief, about 170 floats, drag queens and a marching band that played the Budweiser theme. Slay, who…
( KTRS ) Mayor Francis Slay will sign Board Bill 40, or the ‘Good Samaritan Law’ into City code, later this morning. The law aims to prevent drug overdose deaths by protecting witnesses or bystanders who call 911. While the law provides immunity to the caller from being prosecuted for using drugs, it remains tough…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Veteran journalist Ellen Soeteber, the former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has died after a brief illness. The Kassly Mortuary in Fairview Heights, Illinois, confirms that Soeteber died on Tuesday. She was 66. Soeteber spent 20 years at the Chicago Tribune before becoming managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel…
( KTRS ) The City of St. Louis has begun removing thousands of trees affected, or at risk, from the Emerald Ash Borer Beatle. The shiny green bug is responsible for destroying hundreds of thousands of Ash trees and recently has been discovered in the City of St. Louis. The City’s Forestry Division has been…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Kansas City, Missouri, man has filed a suit against the Archdiocese of St. Louis, saying he was the victim of repeated sexual abuse by a now deceased priest. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/28MkBVD ) reports that Tom Viviano alleges that Father Charles DeGuire forced him to perform oral sex on…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Education officials say Missouri schools experience widespread chronic absenteeism with more than 40,000 students in the St. Louis region and nine area counties who have missed 15 or more days of school during the 2013-14 school year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/28T8qVa ) reports that attendance data was released this month…
( KTRS ) Grant’s Farm could soon have a new owner, after a St. Louis judge ruled Tuesday that a trust manager, has the power to decide whether to sell the property and who buys it. Two groups of Busch family siblings have submitted competing plans for buying and operating the wildlife attraction, in Affton.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Bernie Sanders has new group of supporters. On Tuesday, the national organization, Black Men For Bernie’ launched their “Get In The Game” campaign in St. Louis. A group of about a dozen supports gathered on the steps of the old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis to encourage African-American males to throw…
