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Lezley McSpadden-Head visits the grave of her son Michael Brown at St. Peter’s Cemetery on the fifth anniversary of his death on August 9, 2019
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Michael Brown Sr. held a press conference to reopen the case involving his son Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. Photo by Wiley Price
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Justin Robinson of Hazelwood West continued his tremendous run of success that has gone to heights that no other high school track athlete in St. Louis has ever reached.
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The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis announced future plans for the Urban League Plaza, a shopping center strip mall on West Florissant at the former site of an Advanced Auto Parts store and Juanita’s Clothing Boutique that were destroyed during the Ferguson unrest.
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A rendering of the projected WestFlo District along the West Florissant corridor in Ferguson
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Regina Mars was getting discharged from the hospital when she got to meet one of her favorite comedians, Cedric the Entertainer, and his sister, Sharita Kyles Wilson, outside her room at SSM St. Mary’s hospital on Monday, July 29. The siblings have been ambassadors for SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in honor of their late mother, Rosetta Boyce Kyles, who was treated there for cancer. The Rosetta Boyce Kyles Women’s Pavilion at St. Mary’s was named in tribute to her.
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Kiesha Davis, director of Partnership and Capacity Building at the Deaconess Foundation, presents nursing student Nya Martin with a Deaconess nursing scholarship at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis awards luncheon on Thursday, August 1.
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Marty K. Casey with headliner Kenny Lattimore and featured artists Alyson Williams for the Herb Middleton & Friends Comedy Blast Peace Tour Sunday night at Casa Loma Ballroom. The national recording artists were happy to lend their talent for the worthy cause of the Michael OD Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters Foundation.
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Illinois State Police Master Sergeant Elbert Jennings and Milon Dowell of Collinsville played pool at Cougar Lanes on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus during Team Illinois Youth Police Camp. The camp, which meets on the SIUE campus, had its largest graduating class of 74 this July. The camp, which is coordinated by the Illinois State Police and hosted in partnership with SIUE Police and other Metro East agencies, offers guidance and support to youth, ages 13-17, using military structure. Forty officers participated in the weeklong camp. “We want the kids to leave camp with increased discipline, structure and self-respect,” said Illinois State Police Trooper Calvin Dye Jr. “For many of the youth, SIUE is the first college campus they have visited.”
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Tyler Wayne is making his executive chef debut at Prime 55 in the Delmar Loop. The restaurant, co-owned by music industry influencers Orlando Watson and Tony “T-Luv” Davis, opened its doors in June.
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Elnora Suggs passed away on Friday, August 9 at the age of 106.
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The UrbArts Organization’s youth poetry slam team won first place at the 2019 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival on July 20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Mary Norwood, the grandmother of 7-year-old Xavior Usanga, speaks to Alderman Brandon Bosley, D-3rd Ward, and Maj. Mary Warnecke, the deputy commander of the Bureau of Investigations, on Tuesday. Xavior was the seventh child killed in the city this year.
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Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, comforts Lezley McSpadden-Head on the fifth anniversary of her son Michael Brown’s death on August 9, 2019 at St. Peter’s Cemetery. Samaria Rice’s son Tamir Rice was killed by Cleveland police in November of 2015. he was 12 years old.
Photo by Lawrence Bryant
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Host Thomas Allen Harris with Paula Cummings and Cassandra Floyd – a Southwest Florida family with a rich history that will be among those featured on “Family Pictures USA,” which makes its PBS debut on Monday, August 12.
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Former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger walks out of federal court in May after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges.