Niara Savage
Newsroom Intern-
Major Case Squad detectives looking for the person who shot a MetroBus driver in north St. Louis County took a person into custody late Monday. Metro Transit is promising increased security.
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When it comes to the wealth gap, a college degree “doesn’t serve as an equalizer among Black and white families,” said Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones wants to use the $5.5 million the city owes the state as reimbursement for a 2018 wrongful conviction settlement to improve the city’s 911 system and support emergency responders.
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St. Louis officials are urging parents to get their kids vaccinated so students can learn uninterrupted for the remainder of the school year.
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Mayor Tishaura Jones, state Rep. Kimberly-Ann Collins and Alderwoman Dwinderlin Evans say they agree with residents that naming a small hospital for Homer G. Phillips threatens his legacy.
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Some north St. Louis residents are against a plan to name a new medical building Homer G. Phillips Hospital. They say the three-bed facility built by developer Paul McKee isn’t fit to be named after the training hospital that served the Black community for decades.
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The Board of Education in August passed a mandate requiring school district employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Friday to protect students and staff.
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An electric car-sharing service will provide nonemergency rides to seniors in St. Louis while offsetting fossil fuel emissions.
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UMSL students have organized a petition, asking the university to replant native grasses near Bugg Lake after workers mowed the grasses and replaced them with turf. Students and faculty members say the native grasses and wildflowers promote ecological diversity and bolster conservation efforts for local pollinators.
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St. Louis and St. Louis, St. Charles and St. Clair counties will notify residents about destructive thunderstorm threats via the outdoor warning siren system historically used for tornadoes. A destructive thunderstorm is the most severe storm under the new three-tiered system adopted by the National Weather Service.