Sales Tax Showdown As St. Louis Parents Push Child Care Lifeline
A group of St. Louis parents, child care providers and community organizers is mounting a citywide push to tackle the rising cost of early childhood care. Under the banner Best Start For Kids STL, the coalition is gathering signatures to put a child-care funding measure in front of city voters this November, with...
St. Louis Public Schools settles lawsuit over free speech rights
A free speech lawsuit that accused St. Louis Public Schools of silencing critics and restricting public comment at Board of Education meetings has now been resolved.
More tiny homes for veterans to be built thanks to new donations
The new homes will be added to a project that already has homes along Grand, near Cass, in the Jeff Vander-Lou neighborhood. Several veterans are already living on the nearly four-acre campus.
State Fights To Haul Freed St. Louis Man Back Behind Bars
Missouri’s Court of Appeals spent Thursday weighing whether the state can unravel the ruling that freed Christopher Dunn from prison in 2024. A St. Louis judge had tossed Dunn’s 1991 conviction in the killing of 15-year-old Ricco Rogers after concluding the original eyewitness testimony was too unreliable to support...
Teen at the center of viral ‘Jaden’ snow picture says social media frenzy brought...
The teenager whose identity remained a mystery after his name was found etched into the snow in Forest Park near St. Louis Children’s Hospital last month is stepping forward.
St. Louis Cops Get New Discipline Rules As Misconduct Pileup Looms
The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners has signed off on a new set of rules for disciplining officers, but the timing is rough. Even as the board celebrates a revamped code for misconduct and use-of-force cases, the department is staring at a heavy backlog of unresolved investigations that stretches back years.
Where freedom found a home: Brooklyn, Illinois, America’s oldest Black town
BROOKLYN, Ill. — Just across the Mississippi River from the St. Louis skyline lies a town built on a promise. Fugitive slaves settled in Brooklyn, Illinois, in 1829, escaping slavery in Missouri. Formerly Lovejoy, Illinois, today it is the oldest Black town in the United States. “If they if...
Police oversight board could drastically change, go away
A board that gives St. Louis residents the power to review alleged incidents of police misconduct could soon be eliminated or drastically changed, as a new state law governing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department could bar it from reviewing individual cases.
St. Louis, MO Weather Alert: 3 Rounds Of Heavy Rain Urgency Near I-44, I-64...
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. St. Louis, Missouri – Drivers across eastern Missouri should prepare for repeated rounds of rain and thunderstorms beginning Monday morning, with ponding already possible on I-44 and I-64 before the evening...
Search Ongoing for 5 Missouri Kids that Vanished in February
There are 5 Missouri kids who have just gone missing in February of 2026.
