• A look back at some of the most memorable images from the St. Louis American throughout 2021.

  • Vaccination

    Affinia Healthcare immunization nurse Channay Brown gives a COVID-19 shot to Eric Benford in the city’s Carr Square neighborhood on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. 

  • A jail uprising in downtown St. Louis on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2021.

  • Trumpeter Kasimu Taylor 

  • Campaign manager Rosetta Okohson-Reb and St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones look over a map of streets they plan to canvas in the Tower Grove South neighborhood on Sunday.

  • Democratic candidate for mayor of the City of St. Louis, City Treasurer Tishaura Jones addressed the media Tuesday night after becoming one of two candidates to advance to a mayoral runoff in April. 

  • Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas rallies the troops for Treasurer Tishaura Jones, the democratic candidate for mayor, before supporters canvass the Southside of the city Sunday Feb. 28, 2021. 

  • University City’s Jalen Hampton (15) pulls down a rebound over Cardinal Ritter’s Nyjahl Vaughn during the Boys Class 5 District 5 Championship Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at University City High School. Cardinal Ritter defeated University City 47-43 in Overtime. 

  • Paydenn Mason 6, (center) with parents Samantha and Cody Mason before the start of a birthday parade being given in her honor at January Wabash Park. The event was hosted by Ferguson Chief of Police Jason Armstrong Sat. March 6, 2021. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

  • Cardinal Ritter won the 2021 Boys Class 5 Missouri State Basketball Championship on Friday, March 19th, 2021.

  • Vashon Wolverines Nicholas Kern, Roco Bailey and Keshon Gilbert celebrate after the Mo. Class 4 Boiys Basketball championships in Springfield, Mo. on the campus of Missouri State Sat. Mar. 20, 2021. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

  • Vashon head coach Tony Irons coaching up his team during the boys class 4 basketball championships Sat. Mar. 20, 2021. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

  • Whitfield girls celebrate their 2021 Class 5 girls basketball championship at Missouri State University Fri. Mar. 19, 2021 celebrating the teams first state title. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

  • Whitfield girls basketball head coach Michael Slater takes a minute to give thanks after winning his first girls state basketball championship for Whitfield Fri. Mar. 19, 2021.at JQH Arena on the campus of Missouri State in Springfield, Mo. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

  • The Girls 2021 Missouri Class 5 State Basketball Champions from Whitfield School in St. Louis, Mo. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

  • Artist Journey Bayoc's message against Asian hate
    Artist Journey Bayoc’s message against Asian hate

  • Pattonville running back Zeresh Lewis Jr. (4) is up ended by Hazelwood West defensive back Edward Minor during game action at Hazelwood West Sat. Mar. 27, 2021.  Pattonville would defeat the Wildcat’s 28-0.

  • STL Mayoral debate between Alderwoman Cara Spencer and St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones at Ch. 9 KETC at the offices of St. Louis Public Radio on Tue. Mar. 30, 2021. The St. Louis American, Nine PBS, 5 On Your Side, and St. Louis Public Radio partnered to host the live debate and simulcast it live on their respective channels and websites.

  • Inmates at the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis stand at windows they smashed yelling to supporters late Easter Sunday night, April 4, 2021. It’ the second uprising at the Justice Center in less than two months. 

  • Tishaura Jones is serenaded by sorority sisters at a watch party, after clinching the win as St. Louis Mayor, in St. Louis on April 6, 2021. Jones, the current City Treasurer, makes history by becoming the first black woman to become St. Louis Mayor. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

  • St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones greets supporters after her win in the mayoral race Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2021, defeating Alderwoman Cara Spencer. 

  • St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones greets supporters after her win in the mayoral race Tuesday, defeating Alderwoman Cara Spencer. 

  • St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones taking questions from the media after her win in the mayoral race Tuesday, defeating Alderwoman Cara Spencer. 

  • St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones greets supporters after her win in the mayoral race Tuesday, defeating Alderwoman Cara Spencer. 

  • St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones greets supporters after her win in the mayoral race Tuesday, defeating Alderwoman Cara Spencer. 

  • East St. Louis Flyer’s Luther Burden III (3) gives push back to Edwardsville’s Grant Matarelli (2) during game action Fri. April 2, 2021. The Flyers would defeat the Tigers of Edwardsville 52-21.

  • A car burns as another sits wrecked as a result of a six car crash following a police chase in north St. Louis on Monday, April 12, 2021. Firefighters extinguished the fire and transported three to area hospitals.

  • A St. Louis firefighter/EMT treats one of the victims injured in a six-car chain reaction crash caused by a suspect who led police on a high-speed chase that ended at North Broadway and East Taylor in north St. Louis. Several victims were transported to area hospitals.

  • Tishaura Jones taking the oath of office sworn Tuesday April 20, 2021 as St. Louis’ 47th mayor and becoming the first Black woman to serve as the city’s chief executive officer. Judge Angela Turner Quigless with the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern Dist. administered the oath.

  • Darlene Green sworn in

    St. Louis Comptroller Darleen Green being thankful after being sworn in by U.S. Dist. Judge Ronnie White at City Hall Tues. April 20, 2021. 

  • Tishaura O. Jones poses for a photo in her office in St. Louis after taking the official Oath of Office, to become the mayor of St. Louis, the first Black woman mayor of St. Louis on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Jones was previously the Treasurer of St. Louis since 2013.

  • Starting January 1, 2022, Kwofe Coleman will be The Muny’s new President and CEO. 

  • Jasminn Jones poses for a photo in Cardinal Ritter College Prep’s new athletic complex on April 26, which added new collegiate-level training equipment and direct access to outdoor fields.  KWAME managed the design and construction process.

  • Lavinia McCoy owner of Gourmet Soul restaurant hands Demond Winston his curb side order Tue. May 4, 2021 in downtown St. Louis. McCoy is happy that indoor dinning restrictions will be lifted so they can return to indoor dining starting next week. 

  • Congresswoman Cori Bush speaks with two inmates, one without a mask, during the April 24th tour of the Medium Security Institution. Inmates said they are given just two masks a week, there is an appalling disregard for COVID-19 safety protocols and there are many other inhumane conditions.

  • Gabrielle Henderson, 13, a 7th grader at McKinley Classical Leadership Middle School poses with Milo Marston, 12, a student at Kairos Academies Charter School, after discussing the COVID-19 vaccination.

  • Dancers from Best Dance and Talent Center performed at the Annie Malone Foundation in it’s conference room during the live-stream of the 111th annual Annie Malone May Day Parade Sunday, May 16, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rainy weather caused the event to go virtual for the second time. 

  • Natasha Pickens, President of Communications Workers of America 6355 represents the Missouri public sector workers including Department of Social Services, and the Department of Health spoke on the importance of making sure the governor knows that we want to keep the expansion in place Fri. May 14, 2021 at the Missouri Department of Social Services.

  • St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones addressing the media with County Executive Sam Page on reducing restrictions on mask wearing in public places May 14, 2021 at City Hall. 

  • Issam Asinga (583) from Principia, Leah Thames (314) of STEAM Academy at McCluer South, Brian Brown (496) of Lutheran North, and Safiyah Reed (311) of STEAM Academy at McCluer South compete at the 2021 Missouri State High School Activities Association Class 1 and 2 state championships at Jefferson City, MO on Friday, May 21,2021

  • Mayor Tishaura Jones, unlike her predecessor in Room 200, is backing a bill calling for oversight of the use of surveillance technologies in the city. She spoke at a rally in support of Alderwoman Annie Rice’s proposed legislation on May 28 near the Gateway Arch. 

  • Metro Academic and Classical High School Vice Principal Dr. Kaylan Holloway gives a fist pump to Aigelica Ellis who will be attending Coe College to study Sociology and minoring in Political Science or Pre-Athletic training. 

  • SLPS Grad at Busch

    Roosevelt High School graduates are handed programs as they enter Busch Stadium Wed. May 26, 2021 for graduation. The St. Louis Public Schools held graduation ceremonies on the 26th and 27 of last week. 

  • Dr. Roy Jerome Williams Jr.’s grandfather and father were both Black physicians who served city residents. After his family’s six decades of care for St. Louis patients, Williams is hanging up his stethoscope 40 years after taking over his father’s practice.

  • Corey S. Bradford Sr. has stepped down as president of Harris-Stowe State University after 13 months.

  • Visual Movement from East St. Louis, Ill. led a march to the riverfront from the Old Court House. One of the many Juneteenth celebrations that took place on Saturday, June 19, 2021. 

  • Visual Movement, from East St. Louis, Illinois, led a march to the riverfront from the Old Court House during the Second Annual Juneteenth Commemoration on Saturday, June 19, 2021

  • Simone Biles waving back to fans in the upper bowl Friday night June 25, 2021 at the Dome. Biles and the U.S. Women’s gymnastics team were kicking off their first day of competition. 

  • Simone Biles on the beam Friday night June 25, 2021 at the Dome. Biles and the U.S. Women’s gymnastics team were kicking off their first day of competition.

  • Simone Biles on the vault Friday night June 25, 2021 at the Dome. Biles and the U.S. Women’s gymnastics team were kicking off their first day of competition.

  • COVID DEATH

    Ronald Poe, director of operations for Grandbury Mortuary, wheels the flag covered body of St. Louis Firefighter Rodney Heard to a hearse, as firefighters salute at St. Mary’s Hospital in Richmond Heights, Missouri on Thursday, June 17, 2021. Heard, 56, died on June 15, 2021, as a result of contracting Covid-19. 

  • Simone Biles springs into a vault maneuver during the U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Trials in the Dome at America’s Center on June 26. She received thunderous applause throughout the weekend and, while not flawless, won the overall title and a place on the Olympic team headed to Tokyo in late July.

     

  • FIREFIGHTER
  • Simone Biles practice
    Simone Biles practice
  • Holmes photo

    Dr. Kendra Holmes, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Affinia Healthcare speaking with the agency’s VP of HR, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Steve Harmo.  

  • Congresswoman Cori Bush, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, Cathy Daniels (aka Mama Cat) take a picture with longtime community activist and state representative the honorable Betty Thompson at Juneteenth in Fairgrounds park Saturday June 19, 2021.

  • St. Louis NAACP President John Bowman taking a picture with NBA star Dikembe Mutombo at Northwest Coffee Roasting Company in the Central West End Monday July 12, 2021. 

  • Dr. Daniel Mamah says growing up in Nigeria opened his eyes to lack of healthcare in Africa and led him to pursue a career in medicine.

  • Family and friends of former St. Louis County Councilwoman Hazel Erby held a balloon launch in her honor Sun. July 11, 2021 in Fogerty Park in University City, Mo. Erby was the first Black woman elected to the St. Louis County Council and held that post 15 years, died Friday July 2, 2021 at 75. 

  • Roderic Heard

    St. Louis City Fireman Roderic Heard in Engine House No. 33 in the city’s Baden neighborhood Tue. July 13, 2021. 

  • $15 minimum wage strike

    Protesters march through the drive-thru at the McDonald’s in the 3900 block of Lindell to demand better hourly wages for it’s employees on Monday July 20, 2021. As fast-food companies scramble to find workers, McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in St. Louis will go on strike Wednesday, July 21, the day before the company’s annual shareholder meeting, to demand McDonald’s pay every worker a wage of least $15/hr. 

  • Congresswoman Cori Bush announced more than $1 million in federal funding for the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis as part of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The funding will support the organization’s Head Start program. Photo from a press conference in April 2021.

  • Belma Givens and their son Keith pass in front of a portrait of her husband Dr. Henry Givens, President Emeritus of Harris-Stowe State University for 32 years, during home-going services on the campus Sat. July 31, 2021. Givens was 90. 

  • Interim St. Louis Public Safety Director Dr. Dan Isom addressing the problems at the City Justice Center downtown during a Sunday Aug. 1, 2021 press conference in front of the facility. At left is Deputy Public Safety Director Heather Taylor and on the right is Interim Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Carson. 

  • Belma Givens and portrait

    Belma Givens passes in front of a portrait of her husband Dr. Henry Givens President Emeritus of Harris-Stowe State University for 32 years during home going services on the campus Sat. July 31, 2021. 

  • Michael Brown Memorial 3

    Michael Brown Sr. being embraced Monday Aug. 9, 2021 at the 7-year anniversary of his son’s death by Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson in 2014 in the Canfield Gardens Apartments. 

  • Protesters, including Cathy “Mama Cat” Daniels (far right), rally in front of the Ferguson Police department Monday evening Aug. 9, 2021 on the seventh anniversary of the fatal shooting of Mike Brown Jr. by Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. 

  • St. Louis Surge v Wisconsin Glo

    Wisconsin Glo guard Kelly Moten (4) working her way past St. Louis Surge Leah Cotton (11) during championship action at Fontbonne University Sunday Aug. 15, 2021. The Surge would loose the championship game 93-77. It was the Surge’s only loss of the season. 

  • Mayor Jones signs the American Rescue Plan

    St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signs the American Rescue Plan direct relief package into law on Monday, Aug. 16. The bill lays out plans to spend $135 million in federal money on things like vaccination efforts, public safety and housing security. 

  • Kimberle Jones

    Kimberle Jones admires a portrait of her late daughter, Erica Thompson. The unvaccinated Thompson fell victim to COVID-19 on the Fourth of July and her mother is urging people, especially African Americans, to get vaccinated.

  • St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Kelvin Adams, blows bubbles on Wilkinson Earley Childhood Center students during the first day of school Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. 

  • Murphy Lee cutting ribbon

    Local rapper Murphy Lee cut the ribbon for the new exhibit at the Missouri History Museum called St. Louis Sound on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. 

  • Congresswoman Cori Bush ((D-MO) told a story she had never shared publicly before of a young girl in St. Louis who became pregnant before she was ready, during the reproductive rights rally at the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis on Thurs., Sept. 9, 2021.

  • “We don’t need more reproductive health restrictions,” Mayor Tishaura O. Jones said at the reproductive rights rally at the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis on Thurs., Sept. 9, 2021.

  • Jannis Williams and her grandson Mekhi Robenson 9, a student at Blossom Wood Day School in Hazelwood take a picture with PGA pro golfer Christian Heavens from East St. Louis, Illinios, following the Accenture Youth Golf Clinic on Thursday, Sept. 9, at Norwood Hills Country Club. 

  • Samiya Maclin 2, is seeing the Frizzy Fest from the arms of her mother Marquitya Martin Sat. Aug. 28, 2021 in Tower Grove Park. 

  • Local artist Brock Seals holding the themed Cardinal baseball cap he created for the teams African American Heritage Day at the ball park Monday Sept. 6, 2021. 

  • Lift For Life’s Derell Jones (11) stretched out to catch a pass during game action Fri. Sept. 3, 2021 at Lutheran North. The Crusaders would defeat the Hawks 20-8. 

  • A Humvee containing the body of fallen Marine Jared Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Missouri, leaves St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Schmitz was among the 13 American service members and more than a hundred Afghans killed in a suicide bombing on August 26, 2021, near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. 

  • Former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher and National Baseball Hall of Fame member Lee Smith throws a ceremonial first pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.

  • Ciara Ruffin and her daughter Chloe Stephenson 11, walk the rows of American flags on Art Hill in Forest Park that represent and honor the lives that have been lost over the past 20 years since 9/11. 

  • Darren Lorenzo and Chester Gregory do their Temptations moves performance at Powell Symphony Hall of Motown and other hits from artist like James Brown and Earth, Wind, and Fire called Dancing In The Streets Sat. Sept. 18, 2021. The orchestra was conducted by the IN UNISON Chorus’ Director Kevin McBeth. 

  • Members of the St. Louis Cardinals celebrate their 17th straight win with a 6-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. The win insures St. Louis the second wild-card spot. 

  • On Friday, November 5, Diggs will receive the 2021 Stellar Performer in Education Award at the St. Louis American Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Award Virtual Gala

  • Longtime Director of the Southside Senior Center Ollie Stewart (left) speaking to a group that met on the problem with naming an urgent care on the campus of the new NGA after Atty. Homer G. Phillips Thu. Sept. 30, 2021 at the Southside Senior Center in the city’s Gate neighborhood. 

  • MICDS Rams Steven Hall (9) picking up yards on Lutheran North’s Jamez Lee (22) on the ground, Chris Moore (23) and Rico Merriweather (26) on Friday October 1, 2021 at Lutheran North High School. The Rams would defeat the Crusaders 56-37. 

  • Lutheran North’s Jackson Sommerville (19) stiff arms MICDS’ Bjorn Sjogren (27) during game action Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 at Lutheran North. 

  • A Stop The Bans Rally was held Saturday morning Oct. 2, 2021 in Luther Ely Smith Park. About 200 supporters gathered to hear speakers on keeping abortion rights available and fair to women.

  • A Stop The Bans Rally was held Saturday morning Oct. 2, 2021 in Luther Ely Smith Park. Kawanna Shannon, director of surgical services for Planned Parenthood spoke to about 200 supporters gathered to hear speakers in support of keeping abortion rights available. 

  • 2020 Homecoming King and Queen Omobude Eke and Gabrielle Gilmore wave to spectators at the University of Missouri-Columbia homecoming parade in downtown Columbia, MO October 10th, 2021.

  • Donald Suggs at The 34th Annual Ernest and De Verne Calloway Awards on Sat. Oct. 16, 2021

  • A student at Confluence Academy is searched before being arrested after a fight broke out in the cafeteria Wednesday afternoon Oct. 20, 2021. The fight started with a group of girls after which boys joined in and tables and chairs were thrown. No one was reported seriously hurt. 

  • Rochelle Smith is seated next to a commemorative plaque at the amphitheater and Clock Tower of St. Louis University honoring her late husband Dr. Jonathan Smith, Ph.D. and his legacy Mon. Oct. 25, 2021. SLU’s inaugural vice president for diversity and community engagement, Smith died suddenly on June 19 at the age of 61 following a stroke. 

  • St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones addressed gun violence with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas in St. Louis on Friday, Oct. 29.  During the briefing, five gunshots rang out from a nearby house prompting many at the press conference to take cover inside a building.  Neither mayor flinched nor left following the gun shots.

  • American Legion Tom Powell Post No. 77 member Rufus Shannon Jr. saluting while participating in the Veterans Day Parade Sat. Nov. 6, 2021 near N. 18th St. and Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis. 

  • The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame CEO & Executive Director Jerald Andrews inducted basketball standout Larry Hughes into the 2021 class of the Missouri State Sports Hall of Fame Sunday Nov. 14, 2021. The event was held at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

  • The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame CEO & Executive Director Jerald Andrews inducts long time United Press International photojournalist Bill Greenblatt into the 2021 class of the Missouri State Sports Hall of Fame Sunday Nov. 14, 2021. Greenblatt is the first sports photographer to be inducted. The event was held at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

  • The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame CEO & Executive Director Jerald Andrews inducts sports broadcaster Mike Claiborne into the 2021 class of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Sunday Nov. 14, 2021. The event was held at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

  • Jamie Edwards tends an urban garden that was a vacant lot in North St. Louis on Nov. 12, 2021. Edwards said she’s had to overcome escalating costs and accidental demolitions as she tries to feed the community. 

  • Washington University School of Medicine’s Dr. Will Ross, making his address on “An American Dilemma: Asserting a Moral Imperative in Our Quest For Health Equity” after being installed as the new Alumni Endowed Professor Of Medicine Thus. Nov. 11, 2021 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center Auditorium.

  • Cardinal Ritter wide receiver Marvin Burks (1) makes a catch over Owenville’s Tanner Meyer (24) and Derrick Marquez (28) during the Class 3 quarterfinal Sat. Nov. 20, 2021. 

  • Visitors Camille Brooks (L) and Elizabeth Danielle make a photo as they prepare to ice skate after the opening of Winterfest in Kiener Plaza in St. Louis on Friday, November 19, 2021. Winterfest celebrates the magic of the season in Downtown St. Louis with ice skating, holiday lights, music, igloos and Night Markets. 

  • Cardinal Ritter running back Artrell Miller (3) has the weight of Owensville’s Dezmyn Moore (16) during first quarter action Sat. Nov. 20, 2021. The Lions of Ritter would win the Class 3 quarterfinal 48-6. 

  • Missouri State Trooper Kordel Gipson, an 11 year veteran of the force loading food into the back of cars during the Urban League Annual Thanksgiving Turkey distribution at one of it’s three sites in the St. Louis area. The event at this N. Kingshighway site had traffic lines going back for blocks Tue. Nov. 23, 2021. 

  • Missouri State Trooper Kordel Gipson, an 11 year veteran of the force loading food into the back of cars during the Urban League Annual Thanksgiving Turkey distribution at one of it’s three sites in the St. Louis area. The event at this N. Kingshighway site had traffic lines going back for blocks Tue. Nov. 23, 2021. 

  • CBC’s John Bol (11) coming down with the rebound over Cardinal Ritter’s Jordan Nichols (5) during game action Fri. Nov. 26, 2021. The Cadets would defeat the Lions 71-56 at Ritter. 

  • The Bulldogs Anthony Shivers (30) slips past the grip of St. Mary’s Diamond Casseuss (6) during Class 3 football semifinal action at St. Mary’s Sat. Nov. 27, 2021.

  • About 400 students took part in a Stop The Violence march from Wohl Recreation Center in the city’s Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood to Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School in the city’s Covenant Blu/ Grand Center neighborhood where students made speech’s in support of a non violent community Wed. Dec. 1, 2021.

  • St. Mary’s won the Mo. Class 3 State Football Championship for the first time in school history. St. Mary’s 56-point margin of victory is the most in a state championship game, surpassing Blair Oaks’ 54-0 win over Lathrop in the 2018 Class 2 finale.

  • St. Mary’s won the Mo. Class 3 State Football Championship for the first time in school history. St. Mary’s 56-point margin of victory is the most in a state championship game, surpassing Blair Oaks’ 54-0 win over Lathrop in the 2018 Class 2 finale.

  • St. Mary’s won the Mo. Class 3 State Football Championship for the first time in school history. St. Mary’s 56-point margin of victory is the most in a state championship game, surpassing Blair Oaks’ 54-0 win over Lathrop in the 2018 Class 2 finale. 

  • St. Mary’s Adam Badwan (72) lifts up Caron Spann (1) in celebration after his long run for a touchdown during the Class 3 football state championship on Sat. December 4, 2021 at Faurot Field in Columbia, Mo.

  • Oleta Adams performing during the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s IN UNISON Chorus’ Gospel Christmas at Powell Symphony Hall Thu. Dec. 9, 2021.

  • A St. Louis City Police officer salutes as fallen St. Louis County police detective Antonio Valentine is carried into the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis with Friday Dec. 10, 2021. Valentine, 42, died after a head-on crash in the line of duty.

  • Police officers from all over the St. Louis bi-state area file into the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis with Friday Dec. 10, 2021 for home going services for fallen St. Louis County police detective Antonio Valentine. 

  • Arnez Merriweather (C) is recognized by Dr. Maggie Williams and Pastor Donald Ray McNeal for his actions of saving a baby and mother from a fire during a service at the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis on Sunday, December 19, 2021. Merrriweather saved a 3-year-old girl whose mother tossed her out of a second-floor window to escape a fire at an apartment building in north St. Louis on Monday, November 29, 2021. Merriweather then caught the mother who jumped. Merriweather, 30, said he did it by remaining calm and simply doing what was needed.

  • A woman cries while hugging the headstone of Jerry Young, a Vietnam Army Veteran, after laying a wreath at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Saturday, December 18, 2021. Wreaths Across America, a holiday wreath-laying ceremony to honor and remember the nation’s Veterans, is taking place at the five Missouri Veteran cemeteries where 14,000 wreaths will be placed on headstones.

  • Skater Megan Jefferson steadies herself while skating at the Steinberg Ice Skating Rink in St. Louis on Friday December 24, 2021. A temperature of 73 degrees broke the 70-degree record set on December 16, 1889.

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