The St. Louis County Circuit Court will hire a full-time treatment court commissioner to handle the growing number of cases involving non-violent defendants with substance use disorders and mental illness. The new position is the first of its kind in St. Louis County. It was included in a bi…

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis recently inducted new members into its Alumni Hall of Honor and presented a number of awards to staff, board members, volunteers and supporters.

The Humane Society of Missouri Animal Cruelty Task Force is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the appalling mutilation of the ears of a 3-month-old female, pit bull puppy.

The National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., a professional organization of women in the field of education, will hold its biennial 96th anniversary Conclave on July 14-18 at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel in St. Louis. The Conclave’s theme is "Bold 21st Century Education: Cultural Rel…

Joshua Tyler will attend the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in the fall in an effort to diversify the media through producing films and other media.

After Robbie Williams finished the mile-long trek from St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Catholic Church to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis on North Grand, tears rolled down her face and her emotions boiled over.

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, came to St. Louis on Wednesday, June 12 to promote the company’s national campaign — to Close the Workhouse and transform the criminal justice system. And Cohen arrived in St. Louis just as the advocates learned of a major victory in thei…

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis region will continue operation as Missouri’s sole provider of abortion services, for the time being. Judge Michael Stelzer’s ruling on Monday, June 10, granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a preliminary injunction and gi…

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Missouri will continue to have legal access to abortion.

Dwaun J. Warmack is leaving Harris-Stowe State University, where he has served as president since 2015, to lead Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, which was founded in 1869 as the first South Carolina university open to all regardless of race. He will assume his new duties as …

Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (D) Missouri urged Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D) Maryland to launch an immediate congressional investigation into the General Services Administration’s Public Building Service Management regarding what he calls "repeatedly, unresolved i…

Operation Food Search is doing its part to make sure area children do not go hungry during the summer months when they are not in school, by expanding its summer lunch program.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Madison, Illinois, native and 2013 Madison Senior High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. 

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft will face a legal challenge for his rejection of a referendum that would put the state legislature’s new abortion ban to a public vote – and was branded a “coward” by a prominent area women’s rights advocate.

Activists gave some St. Louis city police cars new “bumper stickers” on June 3, by projecting the images of current and former police officers’ discriminatory social media posts recently released by the Plain View Project.

Now both of the state senators from St. Louis are demanding accountability from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for a series of racist and bigoted messages and memes some of its current and former officers posted on social media, as the Plain View Project reported in Buzzfeed.

St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green has good news about the fiscal health of St. Louis Lambert International Airport and its future.

North Webster is one of the oldest African-American communities in the St. Louis region. Longtime resident Kathryn Dehart remembers when black grocery stores and businesses flourished in the community.

Three courses of algebra stood between Amanda McCleary and a high school diploma.

Black drivers are 91 percent more likely to be stopped in Missouri than white drivers, according to the Missouri attorney general’s 2018 Vehicle Stops report released on May 31.

The President of St. Louis Ethical Society of Police demanded that St. Louis police officers be fired after the Plain View Project published its review of social media posts by a number of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) officers with racist or bigoted content.

95.5 The Lou (WFUN) & Hot 104.1 (WHHL) and Better Family Life will partner to promote a Wear Orange Day in a walk, Resource Fair and Day of Service on Saturday, June 8, 2019 starting at 10:00am. The walk will start at St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church located at 1118 N Grand Blvd, St…

(St. Louis Public Radio) - St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is seeking to close a pay gap within county government between men and women.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - A St. Louis Circuit Court judge has delayed until Wednesday a hearing that could determine whether Missouri’s sole abortion clinic remains open. Judge Michael Stelzer ruled Tuesday that current and former independent doctors at Planned Parenthood will not have to testify.

Missouri’s medical marijuana boom is near.

It took a temporary restraining order from a St. Louis judge to keep abortion services operating at Planned Parenthood last week, as Missouri’s battle for the facility’s license moved from the statehouse in Jefferson City to downtown streets and to the courthouse, as women’s reproductive hea…

The Decarceration Collective was founded in 2016 by MiAngel Cody, with a mission to defend federal prisoners serving life for drugs. They serve as a premier collaboration of lawyers, community organizers, and criminal justice policy consultants working together to dismantle a system that has…

St. Louis County Library and Operation Food Search are teaming up to provide lunches to children this summer at nine library locations starting June 3. Meals will be available free of charge for children ages 18 and under.

On May 19, Amanda Calhoun received her medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and officially became the third Dr. Calhoun.

Chef and civil rights activist Leah Chase, co-owner of the historic New Orleans eatery Dooky Chase, passed away Saturday according to a statement by the family. She was 96 years old.

ArchCity Defenders is partnering with St. Louis County Library and Mound City Bar Association to launch an updated version of Pro Se STL, two local guide booklets that provide information for representing oneself in municipal court and for knowing one’s rights with the police and getting out…

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Missouri's only abortion provider will remain open.

As the last abortion clinic in Missouri warned that it will have to stop providing the procedure as soon as Friday, abortion providers in surrounding states said they are anticipating an uptick of even more Missouri patients.

Harris-Stowe State University recently collaborated with the National Science Foundation HBCU Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) to examine opportunities to advance the agenda for African Americans in STEM through the Spark the Mind Conference.  More than 500 participants engaged with panelists…

The attacks continue against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, a progressive prosecutor who has made some strides toward reforming the judicial system. She is the first African American to hold the position.

The Eye Care Charity of Mid-America will send its state-of-the-art Mobile Vision Clinic to four branches of St. Louis County Library this summer to provide free eye exams and prescription glasses to children age 4 through grade 12.

As a senior administrator and professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Will Ross does not typically talk in the brash protestor’s language of shutting things down. But his experience as a board member for Better Together drove him to talk this way about the group pushin…

The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents on May 28 that it elected Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian, effective June 16.

U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Missouri) will host his 14th Annual Career Fair at 9:30a.m. Monday, June 3 at Harris-Stowe State University. The free event will feature 115 top employers from every sector of the local economy who are seeking to fill over 1,000 job openings.

It is with a heavy heart that I write to share that an icon of Howard University and a giant in the field of Medicine, Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., has passed away. He was a surgeon par excellence, oncologist, medical educator, civic leader, and mentor, to me and so many others.

Kwame Building Group received the American Concrete Paving Association Excellence in Concrete Paving Award for taxiway and runway rehabilitation work at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. The awards program recognizes high-quality workmanship, quality and creativity in concrete pavemen…

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Melinda Jones stands next to her great-grandparents’ former house and shields her eyes against the already-hot morning sun.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell will not issue criminal charges against jail medical personnel in the two recent deaths at the St. Louis County Justice Center, he announced on Friday, May 23 after concluding his investigation.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) now offers a free mobile app – MO Outdoors. MO Outdoors users can quickly and easily find MDC outdoor offerings based on the types of outdoor activities they want to enjoy.

Last fall, University City High School launched “Tied to Greatness” a tie drive in which the high school started collecting new or gently used neckties to be given to students taking part in mentoring programs. Since the launch, there has been an overwhelming response with neckties and dress…

The elected prosecutor in Jackson County (Kansas City) reminded Missouri Gov. Mike Parson that he was not elected to his position when saying that he will be “held accountable” for signing into law a ban on abortion after eight weeks, even in cases of incest and other forms of rape.

A sought-after and successful charter school has plans to grow significantly in St. Louis. City Garden Montessori expects to increase enrollment tenfold over the next decade, which would make it one of the largest charter school systems in the city.