• St. Louis Arches alum Sidney “Iking” Bateman, now a veteran circus performer, helps current members of the tumbling troupe prepare for Circus Flora’s 2017 production “Time Flies.” Bateman will also debut his own Chinese pole act in the circus’ 31st annual season production, which runs June 1-25 under the big top in Grand Center.

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  • The Turkish president’s bodyguards are accused of beating Kurdish protesters in Washington on May 17.

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  • McCluer South Berkeley’s Antonio Nelson hands the baton to teammate Devon Blanchard as Reeds Spring’s Kelly Newton hands off to Ransom Allphin during the Boys Class 3 4×100 meter Relay at the Mo. State Track Championships in Jefferson City Saturday. Reeds Spring won the event with a winning time of 42.86 to Berkeley’s 43.15.

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  • Hillary Frye, executive director of STL Youth Jobs; Jared Boyd, chief of staff for treasurer Tishaura O. Jones; and Michael Holmes, executive director of SLATE, joined Mayor Lyda Krewson for a May 23 press conference about funding summer jobs for local youth.

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  • At a May 31 press conference, state Senator Jamilah Nasheed said that Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft “has been unable to provide clear answers to the people that are having to vote without an ID. What we do know is that this mass policy change does not have the resources to be implemented in the first place.”

    Photo by Wiley Price

  • U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly
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  • Jada Washington-Holt, Jackie Parker, Jade Washington-Holt, Gysai Sylla and instructor Tyler Elder perform “Aura Lee” during the East St. Louis After School Performing Arts Program Spring Recital.

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  • Larry Blue and Theron Morgan, Director of Business Development for Ballpark Village, with The Time’s legendary front man Morris Day just before the band turned the party out for the first of the District Rhythm Summer Concerts presented by 95.5 FM The Lou.

  • JaVale McGee will be a wildcard for the Warriors title chances. If he can defend the rim against the Cavs, he could go from Shaqtin’ A Fool to hoisting a title.

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  • LeBron James and Stephen Curry battle for the NBA Championship for the third straight season. Can James and the Cavs block the Warriors attempt to steal the crown?

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  • Natalia Alfonzo

  • Rev. David Denoon, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, has handed his flock over to Minister Sonya Vann, a minister at Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, during his months-long sabbatical.

  • STL-TV staff. Front row: John Richter, Todd Blackstock, Donna Brooks-Sanders, Andre Holman and Jerry Berwin. Back row: Anthony Mueller, Gilberto Pinela, Ivy Hutchison, Cassandra Walker-Suggs, Joseph Brown and Ken Roberts.  

  • STL-TV engineers Ken Roberts, Jerry Berwin (on computer), Andre Holman, John Richter and audio engineer Anthony Mueller.  

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  • More than 550 individuals registered for the 36th Annual Hazelwood PTA Council Scholarship Run/Walk at Hazelwood Central High School on May 13. Since the program inception in 1959, Hazelwood PTA Council has raised more than $3 million and provided more than 3,200 scholarships to students.

  • Christina Dancy

  • St. Louis Arches alum Sidney “Iking” Bateman, now a veteran circus performer, helps current members of the tumbling troupe prepare for Circus Flora’s 2017 production “Time Flies.” Bateman will also debut his own Chinese pole act in the circus’ 31st annual season production, which runs June 1-25 under the big top in Grand Center.

  • The Confederate statue in Forest Park, has once again been vandalized, sprayed with black and red paint in St. Louis on May 30, 2017. The 32-foot-high stone monument paid for by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1914, has been the target of spray painters several times over the last year. The City of St. Louis has not decided what will happen to the statue. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

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  • St. Louis officials signed a lease for a temporary homeless shelter to be put at this building, at 23rd and Pine. Photo by Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio

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  • Deja Brown graduated on Friday, May 26 from Jennings High School. She will attend Tennessee State University in the fall to begin studies to become a neonatal nurse. Her sophomore year her older brother, Michael Brown Jr., became an international symbol for police violence after he was killed by a Ferguson police officer.

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  • Deja Brown and her mother, Lezley McSpadden, both graduated on Friday, May 26 from Jennings High School. Brown’s older brother and McSpadden’s son was Michael Brown Jr., who became an international symbol for police violence after he was killed by a Ferguson police officer when Deja was a sophomore.

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  • St. Louis rapper Smino closes his “Swanita” tour before a sold-out hometown crowd Sunday night at The Delmar Hall. Photo by Jon Alexander.

  • SIUE visiting professor Danielle Lee named 2017 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
  • Nas and Ms. Lauryn Hill

  • Amadi Muse-Morris, Journee White, Mary K. Townsend, Natalie Malone, Nia Cooper, Janel Dean of the Net Rushers pose with their coach, Mary Owens-Hudson, at Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park. Photo by Nelson Dean

  • Shewanee Howard-Baptiste, right, provost executive administrative Intern at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and 1995 graduate of Normandy High School, visited with Sharifa Sims-Williams, director of communications at Normandy Schools Collaborative, when she gave the district’s 2017 commencement address on Friday, May 26.

  • Golf legend Tiger Woods was arrested around 3 a.m. Monday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida.

  • Hazelwood West seniors Yonnas Wole, Richard Spivey and Mallory Bachheit talk while they wait for district administrators to respond to their call for a meeting on May 18. Photo by Camille Phillips/St. Louis Public Radio

  • “Bound” by Santia Maderios, McCleur High School

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