Student rides ‘entire St. Louis MetroLink,’ shares eye-opening review
A college student recently spent a day riding the "entire St. Louis MetroLink" system, offering a comprehensive review of its strengths, weaknesses and untapped potential.
South City Catholic dad takes his appeal to the Vatican
A parent with two children at the soon-to-be-closed South City Catholic Academy is taking his case to the Vatican. In January, Andrew Magdy and many other SCCA parents were outraged when the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced it would be closing the school in the city’s North Hampton neighborhood. The announcement...
St. Louis’ emergency management agency is still cash-strapped, understaffed months after the tornado
St. Louis’ City Emergency Management Agency is without proper funding and staff and is operating with an emergency operations plan that hasn’t been updated in more than 20 years as the region enters into what has recently been the busiest months for tornadoes. The agency has largely remained...
DEA St. Louis seizes 600K fentanyl doses as part of nationwide crackdown
Calling it “a significant blow to drug trafficking networks,” the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced its agents seized more than 57 million potentially fatal doses of fentanyl during the second phase of a nationwide operation to reduce the illegal supply and demand of the drug.
Coffee chain plans 2nd shop in city of St. Louis
ST. LOUIS — A new 7 Brew coffee shop is coming to the St. Louis area, adding to the fast-growing chain's 15 locations already open in the region. The new coffee shop will be built at 1232 Hampton Ave., near Interstate 64 in the city's Cheltenham neighborhood. The second 7 Brew in the city of St. Louis, it will be...
NLRB Finds Hoffmann Brothers Policies Violated Labor Law
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Hoffmann Brothers violated federal labor law by maintaining overly broad confidentiality policies, in a case brought by Sheet Metal Workers Local 36. The case, 14-CA-344872, was filed June 21, 2024, after a former employee contacted Hoffmann Brothers workers in April...
7 Brew Eyes Shuttered Hampton Avenue Jack In The Box For New Coffee Rush
Drive-thru coffee outfit 7 Brew is lining up a new shop on Hampton Avenue in St. Louis’ Cheltenham neighborhood, with plans to knock down a long-running fast-food building near Interstate 64 and replace it with the chain’s signature double-lane drive-thru. If the city signs off on the permits, the spot would become 7...
The Most Charming Cajun Spot In Missouri Has Nightly Live Music And Incredible Food
The best parties in St. Louis don’t happen in fancy ballrooms or trendy nightclubs. They happen at Broadway Oyster Bar, where the music never stops, the food keeps coming, and somehow you’ve been transported to Louisiana without ever crossing the Mississippi River. Here’s something you should know about...
Debt buyer takes thousands of St. Louisans to court over increasingly small debts
ST. LOUIS COUNTY (First Alert 4) -- Lashonda Baker got a letter in the mail saying she was being sued. Not knowing what it was about, she looked in the top left corner of the page where the plaintiff is listed and saw four letters in all caps: “LVNV.”
Kansas City company owned, operated plane that crashed in St. Louis
A ‘logistics company in Kansas City’ is the one that owned and operated the plane that went down in the St. Louis area early Tuesday morning.
