The Center for Disease Control’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network most recently reported that 1 in 59 children, or about 1.7 percent, have an autism spectrum disorder. Historically, African-American children have being identified with autism spectrum disorder at a significantly lower rate than Caucasian children, but this gap has narrowed: across all network monitoring […]
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Tina E. Grimes named executive director / Club Level owner with The John Maxwell Team
Tina E. Grimes is now executive director/Club Level owner with The John Maxwell Team, a leadership training group. The president of Success Academy, LLC, she has trained youth and adults in the St. Louis area and nationwide for over 25 years and led the capital campaign to secure over $32 million to build Cardinal Ritter College […]
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Infected romaine lettuce narrowed to Central Coastal growing regions
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), regulatory officials in several states, Canada, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections linked to romaine lettuce from the Central Coastal growing regions in northern and central California. CDC is advising that U.S. consumers not eat and retailers and restaurants […]
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Prep Athlete of the Week: Ray’Sean Taylor, Collinsville – Basketball
The junior point guard was the Most Valuable Player of the Herrin Tournament after leading the Kahoks to the championship. The 6’1” Taylor averaged 21 points a game in the tournament as the Kahoks went 5-0 for the week. He had 20 points, seven rebounds and five assists in a 62-32 victory over Herrin in […]
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Clarissa Jackson joins LSEM
Clarissa Jackson joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as a social worker with the Youth and Family Advocacy Program and the Children’s Legal Alliance program, which addresses the needs of homeless youth and families in St. Louis city and county. She was formerly a social worker with the Education Justice Program at Legal Services.
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Media associations will now designate execution witnesses, Missouri Department of Corrections had denied investigative journalist 17 times
Professional media associations will now designate a reporter to witness executions in Missouri as part of a settlement following a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Missouri in 2016 on behalf of investigative journalist Chris McDaniel. Until this settlement, the approval or rejection of a media witness application was solely at the discretion […]
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Vanessa Cooksey is 2018 Corporate Executive of the Year
On Wednesday, October 24, Vanessa Cooksey was in New York for the annual fundraising gala for SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education, where she is a board member. “We raised $1.2 million, and this was in a very elegant event facility on Wall Street,” said Cooksey, senior vice president of community relations for Wells Fargo. “On […]
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Christian Hospital Auxiliary named best in state
The Christian Hospital Auxiliary was recognized by the Missouri Hospital Association as its 2018 Auxiliary of the Year. It was honored in the large-hospital category (300-plus members) in recognition of nearly 46,000 hours of service to the hospital, BJC HealthCare and the community. This is the eighth time the Christian Hospital Auxiliary has received the […]
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Bradley Beal says trade request rumors are ‘nonsense’
St. Louis native and Washington Wizards All-Star guard Bradley Beal called reports that he wanted to be traded “nonsense,” during an interview with NBA TV on Monday following Washington’s 135–131 win over Houston. After the game, Beal was asked by NBA TV’s Dennis Scott to address the report that he wanted out that came out […]
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Covenant House hosts executive sleep-out for youth homelessness
Covenant House Missouri hosted over 50 local and national business executives for its annual Sleep Out – Executive Edition on Thursday, November 15. Executives from Cisco, Edward Jones, Ascension, Duke Manufacturing, SSE Inc. and other companies slept outside in the snow and cold to raise awareness of youth homelessness. On any given night, according to […]