Ryan Krull
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Journalist in St. Louis. Fmr staff writer @riverfronttimes . Work in @CJR @TheAtlantic @The_Millions @propublica & elsewhere. Prof @UMSL
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An elected city official just called to say he was “feeling great” to hear today’s news about the RFT, which I think says a lot about our reporting and the importance of local journalism more broadly. On that note, I’m looking for my next thing: ryan.william.krull
@gmail
.com.
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In 2018, Josh Hawley blasted his opponent for flying private. Six years later, his campaign is spending six figures on chartered/private flights. $130K in last nine months alone.
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Since I no longer have a place to publish discreetly recorded audio of St. Louis City Sheriff Vernon Betts. And because this has done little to dim people’s enthusiasm for sending it to me, I’m just going to post this here.
Since I no longer have a place to publish opera reviews, I'll just put this here: The Barber at Seville, which opened at
@OTSL
last night, is just terrific -- so fresh and funny and smartly conceived. Even the costumes made me laugh out loud.
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Attorney: Videos Taken at Bar:PM Contradict St. Louis Police Story
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The officer who responded to the crash handcuffed one of the LGBTQ bar’s owners just 22 seconds after arriving, attorney says.
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St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts is suing, demanding a recount after his loss to Alfred Montgomery earlier this month. story to come
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A bar owner who had a police SUV come crashing through his business last night has now been charged with assault.
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An update on the Dara Daugherty alleged illegal rooming house/slumlord scheme. The judge seems to be throwing the book at her. Via the St. Louis Daily newsletter.
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More sad news from the world of local media. This time it's layoffs at Sauce Magazine. Sauce is owned by Big Lou Holdings, which sold the RFT in May
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Neighbors are taking action against a property left to rot by slumlord Dara Daugherty, right in the heart of Antique Row. Such a waste of potential in this building—but hopefully not for long…
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A really exciting downtown (west) project that I hope gets across the finish line as quickly as developers say it will.
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UPDATE...Similar to the Bar:PM crash, both officers in vehicle appear to be new to the department. Driver has been on force less than a year. Passenger has been SLMPD officer for one year.
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"People on our team have worked on elections where the margin was 6 votes," says
@LucasKunceMO
press sec
@kelli_kee
"It's not over til it's over. And it's definitely not over with only 25% of the vote in."
#MOSEN
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St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts will likely have a decision to make later today. Does he want to concede the election or pay ~$10k for a hand recount. Per the St. Louis Daily newsletter.
@stlmag
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Video Shows St. Louis Police SUV Swerving Wildly, Hitting Bar:PM
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St. Louis Jail Oversight Board Vice Chair Resigns With Blistering Letter
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Just FYI, if you like this sort of coverage,
@sarahfenske
and I have a newsletter launching 7/29, the St. Louis Daily, that will be chock-full of it everyday.
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UPDATE: After seven hours of recounting votes via two scanners, the election commission says they’re calling it a day and will wrap up tomorrow.
St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts will likely have a decision to make later today. Does he want to concede the election or pay ~$10k for a hand recount. Per the St. Louis Daily newsletter.
@stlmag
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“If you know somebody that’s not on the team, shoot ‘em,” Betts says.
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Attorneys for the city allege there’s a secretive, hidden group trying to stop an anti-corruption law in St. Louis.
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Cop in Bar:PM Arrest Was Accused of Breaking Arrestee’s Bones in 2019
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Tim Norman guilty on all counts in Sweetie Pie’s murder trial. Story TK
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At the
@Kunce4MO
watch party. Kelli Kee, Kunce’s press secretary says, “We’re feeling good. We’ve done all we can do.”
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Very excited for this story to make it on
@longform
@RiverfrontTimes
"At Lake Adelle, the Dead, the Missing and Those Left Behind" (
@RyanWKrull
,
@riverfronttimes
)
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If you own a gun, use a gun lock.
A toddler shot himself on Saturday with a gun left unattended by a St. Louis city sheriff's deputy
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Judge orders pause on $500 guaranteed basic income payments.
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It's also looking good for
@buschvalentine
on the Democratic side for
#MOSEN
. She has more than 50% in STL County, which I believe has the largest (or one of the largest) concentration of Democratic voters in the state.
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An update on this story from last week. Prosecutors dropped two of the three charges against Greene.
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Kunce was at polling places until they closed, she said. He hit 8 polling locations today in total.
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Wow, very cool to see
@RiverfrontTimes
weed correspondent in the pages of Harpers, like many other influential men and women of American letters before him
@DoyleMurphy
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I have been informed their liquor license is of the regular 1 a.m. variety (as opposed to 3 a.m.). My bad. I regret the error.
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I talked to
@NewYorker
Poetry Editor Kevin Young about the history of hoaxes, hucksterism and fake news.
@The_Rumpus
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After City Hall cleared a makeshift encampment from its lawn, many residents didn’t go far
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Race for St. Louis Sheriff may not be over, apparently. From the St. Louis Daily newsletter
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The death comes two days into a new medical provider overseeing healthcare at the facility.
Breaking: The troubled St. Louis City Justice Center saw another detainee death this morning.
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Family says city jail detainee went without clean clothes, medication while an untreated hernia swelled to the size of a cantaloupe
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In his concession speech
@LucasKunceMO
encourages his voters to support Democrats "up and down the ballot. The whole ballot."
#MOSEN
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The St. Louis Fire Department administered 10,249 Narcan Doses in Four Years
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Very good news. Pho Grand Is Coming Back to South Grand
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This is a great longread for anyone looking for a primer as mayoral election season approaches. By
@infonphillips
for
@stlmag
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Update in the trial of Sweetie Pie’s star Tim Norman. The jury has asked to review exhibits: flight records for Terica Ellis; texts between Norman and his attorney; the application for the life insurance policy on Andre Montgomery submitted by Norman
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Over the past two years, two different St. Louis County Council chairs gave auditor Toni Jackson unauthorized raises. This is on the heels of Jackson improperly trying to give herself a raise in 2022, allegedly.
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.
@LucasKunceMO
announces bid to take down Josh Hawley on two year anniversary of insurrection
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DHHS “raids” VFW hall that sells Delta-9 drinks at its bar. Enforcing a new law banning the sale of THC-infused drinks anywhere except dispensaries. VFW says these THC drinks are crucial for vets who want to hang at the hall but not drink alcohol.
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St. Louis City Sheriff Vernon Betts was enraged with what he perceived as a deputy's political disloyalty. He was just as angry when someone had the audacity to call him--while he was watching Mulan, nonetheless--and confront him about it.
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Mysterious Suicides and Missing Persons Rattle Southern Missouri Town
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If you find this sort of local reporting valuable, the best way to support it is by signing up for a free subscription
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Between this, the “murder shell” and the Dara Daugherty suit—a lot of positive movement in the city regarding nuisance properties.
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Attorneys now banned from bringing phones into city jail after
@RiverfrontTimes
and
@stltoday
ran this photo yesterday
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Thanks to
@FundFIJ
for helping make this story possible.
A lot goes into making a jail a dangerous place. Read
@RyanWKrull
's latest
@RiverfrontTimes
cover story on a vicious beating at CJC and the many factors at play.
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Taxpayers subsidized this “illegal rooming house” operation.
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Massive congrats to
@bleschhorn
Billy Collins and Charles Simic are in good company!
@BoulevardLitMag
http://t.co/JzlT97Di37
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Jazz looked at Cooke, then to the police. “This doesn’t seem weird to you all?” she asked.
Update in the
#ElizabethCooke
saga
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FBI investigation into Florissant police officer expands to two potential victims.
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For over a year I worked on this story about a serial killer who murdered at least three people in St. Louis. The
@RiverfrontTimes
published it yesterday. There's still a chance this case gets solved.
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Richard wrote a lot of great short fiction. I was really luck to get to know him and hear some great stories from his own life, too. He had some wild literary days. RIP
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Until very recently this landlord controlled ~2400 apartments in the STL area. Residents spoke about doors that didn't lock, furnaces that didn't heat, roofs that collapsed, and myriad other issues. I wrote about it for the
@RiverfrontTimes
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Thanks for having me on to talk about this.
@sarahfenske
@evhemphill
If you haven't yet, be sure to check out
@RyanWKrull
's TEH Realty-focused
#longread
in this week's issue of the
@RiverfrontTimes
.
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This lawsuit filed by the city today spells out a wild "illegal rooming house" scheme spanning 39 properties in at least nine south city neighborhoods.
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Astute words from attorney Terry Niehoff: "The worst part about the city is the siloes...The sheriff's office, the police, the courts, the jail. They're always fighting. They all hate each other."
St. Louis judges aim to hire their own court security, supplanting Sheriff Vernon Betts -- and he's not happy. Full story:
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The strange thing is that the law in question has myriad critics, some quoted in the story who make very good points…so why the secrecy?
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If anyone wants to tune out of the news cycle for an hour so at any point in the coming days/weeks, I couldn't recommend this 2013 interview with Evan Wright any more highly. RIP. So sad.
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Woman accused of running illegal rooming house scheme in STL city has similar operation shut down in Brentwood.
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I talked to my pal Minsoo Kang about his latest translation work, The Story of Hong Gildong
@The_Rumpus
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Fifteen MO DOC employees talked to
@RiverfrontTimes
for this story about the climate of fear in MO prisons. "Resources that should go into rehabilitating inmates..instead go into these employees being paranoid someone is going to stab them in the back."
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Good news everyone. There’s a concerted effort to rebrand our part of town The MOFO District. May the biggest, shiniest sign win.
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With apologies to Eric McElroy, the third Eric in the race.
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I wrote about the strange case of Barbara Smith and the baby her son says she kept in her freezer for 40+ years.
@RiverfrontTimes
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In one two week period last month, 462 cars were reported stolen or attempted stolen. During those same two weeks, only one person was charged with a crime related to auto theft.
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Come take a look at the literary cribs of STL.
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In the face of protestors and vandals, the June 4 Museum keeps alive the memory of Tiananmen 1989. I wrote about it for
@TheAtlantic
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"I do not believe [Kim Gardner's] leadership can stop the metaphorical and physical ballistics from continuing to fly through our City."
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@LauraAnnSTL
@sarahfenske
He is actually still in jail. That was a fact I got I wrong in the story. It has been corrected. My apologies.
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Does anyone recognize this lost dog, chilling on the steps of city hall?
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STL city's 5-year prosecution over a charge that carries a $500 fine has come to an end, maybe.
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Would 4,223 cartons of cigarettes go stale after six years?
The feds have now seized $2 million, 15 ATM terminals and 4,223 cartons of cigarettes from St. Louis' most famous informant, Mohammed Almuttan, and his co-co-conspirators. Details:
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An interesting subplot in this story is that the chairman of the board of Hertz is also on the board of directors for the Innocence Project
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@FJMoz
's Hot Stew is terrific, an ensemble novel of developers, sex workers, white collars, blue collars, no collars, a subterranean cult of the homeless--all packed together in a few blocks of a London neighborhood. Was really fun to talk to her about it.
"Hot Stew," Fiona Mozley's clever and lively novel about the bustling streets of London's Soho neighborhood, is climbing to the top of the Best of 2021 lists. Join us tonight at 7pm on Facebook for Mozley's interview with Ryan Krull from
@BoulevardLitMag
.
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Things seemed to have particularly grim at this house on Virginia, but some version of this was playing out at dozens of properties across nine south city neighborhoods.
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Reed previously pleaded the 5th for a depo, now just not showing up.
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I wrote about three guys who fled Turkey, came to STL, and are now kicking ass at the car game.
@RiverfrontTimes
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Felix Key is serving a 28 year prison sentence for shooting Shelton Buchanan, but I’m pretty sure Key is innocent. Read all about it.
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I wrote about homelessness (downtown and midtown) and addiction (everywhere) for the
@RiverfrontTimes
?amp=1
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I wrote about the strange case against Missouri marijuana lobbyist Eapen Thampy
@thedailybeast
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Allegations of fake tests make for more uncertainty in already uncertain times
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@allgood_logan24
Hi! I am a reporter for the Riverfront Times in STL. Any chance you'd be up for talking more about this? My DMs are open. Thank you!
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The KDHX saga moves into the courtroom
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You can read the full indictment of former Alderman Brandon Bosley here
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