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A Missouri teen, Mary Walton, started recording after her geometry teacher used the n-word multiple times in class. The video went viral, even though Walton didn't post it on social media. Now Walton has been suspended.
Call me crazy, but I feel like if you or I crashed our cars into the front of a building in the wee hours of the morning, they'd give us a toxicology test
“We will continue to dissect Sen. Hawley and understand what it is that makes him upset, and we will continue to do that until he decides it’s no longer worth the effort to continue to serve as United States Senator."
@reedgalen
via
@STLonAir
A St. Louis County woman was arrested after police claimed she repeatedly attacked two officers. Bystander video shows a much different scene -- instead showing the officers hitting HER. Yet prosecutors continue to press charges. New at
@stlmag
Breaking news by
@RyanWKrull
: the police officer accused of giving Bar:PM's co-owner a black eye was previously accused of breaking multiple bones of an arrestee in 2019. Full story:
For everyone shocked at Mike Moon's attitude toward child marriage, it's important to remember he is not alone in Missouri. Far from it, as
@D_Towski
explained a few years back
And with that, the RFT has left the building. Much gratitude to Wash U Libraries for stepping into preserve 46 years of St. Louis history — and print journalism
A woman called the sheriff's department to say she'd found a dog wandering after a storm. Rather than try to find Parker's owners, deputies shot him -- and then, when he didn't die, shot him again 8 minutes later. Unbelievable cruelty from Stoddard County:
Well, on this story the RFT got scooped, and
@stlpublicradio
has a good overview of what we know about its future. It breaks my heart that the good stories we were working on won't be published. It breaks my heart that good people lost their jobs today
A St. Charles County man illegally sold guns throughout Missouri -- approximately 250. At least 30 ended up at crime scenes. Now he's been sentenced to, that's right, probation
First they sought to criminalize school librarians. Now, after library associations dared to push back, the Missouri GOP is going after public library funding
Some professional news: I've accepted a job as executive editor for Euclid Media. In a month, I'll be supervising the editorial content for papers in Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville & St. Louis (yes, the RFT!). Through June 22, you can still catch me at 12 on
@STLonAir
Some professional news: I'm excited to share that
@RyanWKrull
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Gotta love a lady from Brentwood buying up 39 condemned houses in St. Louis, thereby stopping residents from rehabbing them -- and then using them to prey on the city's most vulnerable residents. This suit is a bombshell, and it's exciting to see
Neighbor is getting a new roof. The roofers were working when I got the paper at 7 am and working when I returned home at 7 pm. It was 100 degrees and muggy in St. Louis today … and I am never complaining about my job again
Despite Dred Scott's massive impact on American history, the only marker on his grave at St. Louis' Calvary Cemetery is an ordinary 2 1/2 foot headstone. His great-great granddaughter wants to change that -- but she needs your help
The Cardinals indoctrination starts so early in this town, all the 3-year-olds at daycare are wearing jerseys and ballcaps .... in St. Louis babies apparently come with Cardinals apparel for each developmental stage, from newborn to toddler
Dear people driving 75 miles or more to work, let me tell you about this magical place called St. Louis where *everything* is a 20-minute drive or less and there are lovely houses just a mile or two from downtown
The FBI tracked Ferguson activist Darren Seals as a "self-described revolutionary who has espoused somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons" -- and even had him pulled over by local police. Story by
@RyanWKrull
via a FOIA by
@autisticoop
Bystander video contradicts the St. Louis Police account of what happened yesterday at Bar:PM, says attorney Javad Khazaeli. "They falsely claim that speaking loudly is against the law. And they use that as a predicate to arrest Mr. Morris."
New: St. Louis Police crashed into a church sign -- and then covered their tracks to the point that the church's pastor assumed the damage was vandalism. Months later, he's still waiting for answers
Bombshell press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office: the brothers behind Lux Living/Asprient/CityWide have been indicted for attempting to defraud the city of St. Louis
At Wesley Bell's victory party last night over Congresswoman Cori Bush,
@RyanWKrull
talked to the Rev. Phillip Duvall, who supported Bush over Lacy Clay in 2020 but this time supported Bell. “I don’t need a protestor," he said. "I need a congressperson."
I moved to St. Louis from Arizona and never changed my AZ phone number -- and now I'm really second-guessing that. Suddenly a 314 area code feels like a true status symbol, a proof of belonging.
Here's why rape victims shouldn't get an exception from abortion laws, per Rep. Barry Hovis. "Most of the rapes" he saw in law enforcement didn't involve "gentlemen jumping out of bushes. Most of them were date rapes or consensual rapes..."
Welp,
@RyanWKrull
got the video of a police SUV swerving to avoid basically nothing and then crashing into Bar: PM. And it's exactly what you'd expect:
@PaulPetruska
@stlmag
Except they tend to move much faster to dismiss these things when you're famous! This nurse has now lost two jobs over the pending charges
Congresswoman Cori Bush boasted of helping a Jewish, AIPAC-affiliated constituent who'd collapsed at an event. But the constituent says there's a problem with the story: She has no association with AIPAC and she's not Jewish
I know the Brentwood Target remains the worst — but fighting zoo traffic to get to the St. Louis Art Museum on a lovely weekend morning is still a special kind of hell
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against the co-owner of Bar:PM, who was arrested after St. Louis Police crashed into his bar. The decision comes as the lengthy record of misconduct complaints against the officer who made the arrest has become public
The St. Louis Police officer who handcuffed one of the owners of Bar:PM within 30 seconds of arriving, after cops crashed an SUV into the bar, has left the department.
@RyanWKrull
has the scoop:
NEW: Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting journalists at local papers to maximize profits, has announced an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises, a local newspaper firm, for $24 per share. (Statement below)
— Alden acquired remainder of Tribune earlier this year
Instead of hiring John Goodman to do voiceovers, I want Explore St. Louis to license this video of Lizzo dancing in front of
@GatewayArchSTL
. This is the glow up STL needs
Running for Senate, Josh Hawley derided
@clairecmc
as "Air Claire." Now he's spending six figures of campaign cash to fly private. Scoop by
@RyanWKrull
at
@stlmag
Pro tip: If you want to get a certain sort of St. Louisan wound up, write a story about how a study has concluded the Gateway Arch is "America's safest national park." Half of the region now appears to be foaming at the mouth over this one
For Sarah Fenske Day, I hereby decree that the gin must flow, the drivers must stop at crosswalks and everybody must read the story before commenting on it. Is that too much to ask?
Alderwoman
@CaraSpencerSTL
's bill to prohibit the open carry of firearms in St. Louis without a concealed carry permit won 16-0 approval today -- enough to override any potential mayoral veto
@rjberner46
Why wouldn't there be reasonable suspicion if someone smashed into the front of a bar on an empty street? Maybe I've been in St. Louis too long, but that seems to immediately suggest impaired driving
Never underestimate a child’s desire to possess toy versions of your most tedious appliances. My 3-year-old is freaking out. “It’s what I always wanted!” To do laundry???
Union Station has become a three-year family tradition for my 5-year-old’s birthday— and I’m blown away by how it just gets better each year. A great family experience
The St. Louis Police Officers Association has terminated the employment of Jeff Roorda -- the controversial spokesman who wished Darren Wilson a "HAPPY ALIVE DAY" on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death ... among many other acts
A wonderful thing about St. Louis is that even in the dead of winter, every three weeks or so you get the most wonderful reprieve and the sun shines and it’s like a little promise of spring
Hanging out in Pittsburgh and struck by how woefully St. Louis fails to take advantage of its river. Check out this riverfront walkway lined with benches ... where you can just sit and admire the view
Dred Scott's great-great-great granddaughter Lynne Jackson has been raising money for a proper monument for her famous ancestor since 2020, and thanks to her dedication and crowd-funding, it's finally led to a monument at Calvary Cemetery
This story is a frustrating example of why we can't have nice things -- and why visitors to St. Louis are frequently left with complaints about the experience
Gotta give mad props to my neighborhood
@SchnuckMarkets
. Despite y’all trying to induce panic on social media, those shelves were stocked. Toilet paper! Soap! Gin!
Someone tell Josh Hawley he can drop the phony accent: Turns out fewer than 10 percent of Missouri voters now say "Missour-uh," according to a new
@SLUPoll
:
Can't say I saw this coming: Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is currently enrolled in an advanced nursing program at Saint Louis University. Her spokesperson wouldn't answer
@RyanWKrull
's questions about the time commitment
Struck by the fact that Missouri Governor Mike Parson devoted just one line in his State of the State address to the issue I suspect many residents care most about: vaccine distribution.
In the Midwest, drivers share a fervent conviction that cars must form an orderly single-file line *at least* one mile before any road blockage. The zipper merge is reserved for coastal hellholes where people don't write thank-you notes
Right now, says
@CaraSpencerSTL
, Kansas City requires anyone openly carrying a firearm in its borders to have a concealed-carry permit. St. Louis doesn't -- but could. She hopes her bill to require permits could be a game changer for a city ravaged by guns
One of an introvert's great pleasures, writes
@writesjenna
, is living vicariously through Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper as they drunkenly banter on New Year's Eve. Don't let the Ryan Seacrests of the world take that away from us!
Seeing my four-year-old point at the pink-washed sky right now and shout, “Mommy, my first rainbow! My first rainbow!” just canceled out a whole lot of this week’s unhappiness
Of the 1,900 homicides in St. Louis city from 2014 through 2023, 1,000+ remain unsolved. Black people made up around 90% of those killed. Police solved fewer than half of those killings, but cleared nearly two-thirds involving white victims.
Is there any 80s kid who can look at a dead mall without a pang in their heart? (Even if so, I am not among them.) These Chesterfield Mall photos make me nostalgic for a mall I never even visited
Three LGBTQ St. Louis bars received threatening calls yesterday,
@RyanWKrull
reports . In one, the unnamed caller said he was coming in at 3 a.m. to "shoot the place up" and used a slur for gay men, saying he was "tired of" them
“Our low income St. Louisans are right now being failed by our bus system.”
@sarahfenske
says the bus system needs to be improved before Metrolink is expanded.
#DonnybrookSTL
My friend Mike became convinced "hoosier" needed a collective (you know, "herd of cattle," "murder of crows," etc). He came up with "a gravois of hoosiers." I slipped it into the RFT a few years back. One of my greatest disappointments is that it failed to take off from there
Being a woman in America means each day confronting an existential question: Do I dress for the temperature outside, or I dress to withstand the icy blasts of air my employer plans to torture me with