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ST. LOUIS A federal grand jury indicted the former Velda City treasurer Thursday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funds and additional money from a charity for the hearing impaired. According to the US Attorneys Office, Venita Sedodo hatched a scheme to steal approximately $400,000 from Velda City from November 2015 to October 2018 while serving as the citys treasurer. Over that time, she wrote 90 unauthorized city checks to herself, which she deposited into her

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. KTLA The student who investigators believe is responsible for the deadly Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, California on Thursday was described as a quiet kid. Ryan McCracken, 20, a former childhood friend of the alleged shooter, talked about how they used to play together, growing up in Santa Clarita. But they slowly grew apart. We were friends when I was a little kid. We would just play in the yard, the backyard, McCracken

DES MOINES, Iowa In the last several months, two lawsuits against Iowa Clinic doctors have resulted in nearly $15 million payouts, with the latest coming after a mans unwanted vasectomy. In December of 2015 Zaw Zaw, a 38 year old Burmese man, was sent to the Iowa clinic with a referral letter for circumcision. The letter was also faxed. In four places on the referral form it said circumcision, circumcision, circumcision, circumcision, said Zaw Zaws attorney Marc Harding. The letter,

Trooper Hopkins was fatally shot on August 23 while serving a warrant in East St. Louis.

An employee with TEH Realty said that 10 of residents have either moved out in the last week or have plans to do so

The St. Clair County Sheriffs Department said David Bryant stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend multiple times on her arms and upper body

A 39-year-old mentally disabled woman who was sexually assaulted by another resident of a group home settled her claim for $1.75 million, according to her attorney. Jill Kanatzar of Dollar Burns & Becker in Kansas City said the victim, who was 35 at the time of the abuse, had been living in a group home ...

Record throngs of travelers are expected to jam into airports over the Thanksgiving break and airlines are adding hundreds of flights a day in response. The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that it expects to screen more than 26.8 million passengers and airline crew members between Nov. 22 and Dec. 2. That would be a ...

Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husbands corpse in a freezer inside her Joplin home, where it may have been stored for nearly a year. Barbara Watters, 67, of Joplin, was charged Wednesday with abandonment of a corpse, a felony that is punishable by up to four years in prison. The grim ...

A Post Holdings NYSE: POST subsidiary will buy a peanut butter facility in Streator, Illinois.8th Avenue Food & Provisions, a subsidiary for Postsprivate-label foods business, expects to close on the deal in the fourth quarter. The seller isConagra Brands Inc. of Chicago NYSE:CAG. Terms werent disclosed. Post said 8th Avenue expects to fund the deal with cash on hand.Post formed 8th Avenue in 2018. It owns 60, while Thomas H. Lee Partners is also an owner. Jim Dwyer leads 8th Avenue.Post

A sign posted at the downtown St. Louis Bread Co., 116 N. Sixth St., says the restaurant will close on Tuesday.The message encouraged customers to get the same great service to downtown by utilizing its Soulard restaurant.Panera didnt immediately respond to requests for comment.UPG-Kiener/Stadium Parking LLC owns the downtown Bread Co. property, a parking garage located across Pine Street from the Metropolitan Square office tower.Panera, based in Sunset Hills and owned by Luxembourg

The 25 largest St. Louis hospitals by revenue took in a combined $10.3 billion in 2018. Weve ranked the hospitals below based on number of beds and profitability. At the bottom, weve broken down the newest column on our list, the overall quality rating.The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gives each hospital a 1 to 5 star overall rating based on a statistical model that considers seven groups of quality metrics. Only two of the St. Louis regions 25 largest hospitals,

The board hired Sweeney in 2015.

Darcy Horn Davenport, president of Active Nutrition since 2017, will become CEO of the new public company.

Cereal business is out of favor, but Bob Evans side-dish sales are growing rapidly.

Saint Louis University became one of the first schools in the nation to outfit every resident hall and on-campus apartments with Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers in summer 2019. While the achievement was widely acknowledged by media outlets and the SLU community, administration faces minimal usage amongst students. Students either gave up on the idea...

In 2016, one of the major developments was the changing nature of political media in the face of increasing use of social media and alternative news platforms. Media entities reliant on traditional forms of publishing journalismprint media, television, radiobegan feeling pressure to adapt, and to find new ways to attract consumers to their content. In...

In George Orwells dystopian novel 1984, he illustrates a society that has fallen victim to infinite warfare, ubiquitous government surveillance and propaganda. Although this fictitious story is merely an insight into the dangerous implications of totalitarianism, the question of whether or not Orwells anti-utopian world has become a reality for some seems unfortunately to be...

Pablo Puig, Staff Writer On the night of Oct. 6, after a single phone call between Turkish President Recep Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump, the White House announced that U.S. forces in northeast Syria were to be pulled back from the Turkish border. Without consulting any military officials, governmental agencies or regional coalition partners, The post No Friends, Not Even the Mountains appeared first on The Current.

Dalila Omerovic, Opinions Editor The White House has officially declared war on the impeachment investigation. In the latest reality show episode that is the American government, the White House sent an eight-page letter to the House detailing one important message: the administration will no longer cooperate with the ongoing impeachment inquiry. The letter claims that The post Trump Refuses to Comply in Impeachment Inquiry appeared first on The Current.

Tori Foster, Sports Editor The University of Missouri-St. Louis have had a great week for sports this past week. Womens Volleyball The womens volleyball team 15-2, 3-2 GLVC, defeated the Lindenwood Lions 3-0. The Tritons hit better than .300 for the eighth time this season. They also recorded a season-high 10 aces en route to The post UMSL Weekly Sports Update appeared first on The Current.

You know Christmas is hoving into view when the first Nutcracker appears. If its too early for holiday merriment, dont worry: we got art exhibits, dance concerts, a classic comedy and a return to Fleabags origins. 1.

A St. Louis judge has ruled that Missouris expansive stand your ground law protects a former Papa Johns worker from conviction for involuntary manslaughter for shooting a man who had used a cinder block to break through the stores front window. The acquittal of Clinton Eckenrod comes more than a year after he shot and killed Ollice Upchurch outside a now-closed Papa Johns location on South Grand Boulevard.

St. Louis County police now believe a missing woman was murdered by her husband. Beau Rothwell, 28, was arrested on Wednesday night, and police announced this morning they are applying for charges of first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence. Police have been searching for Jennifer Rothwell, 28, since Tuesday when her abandoned car was discovered. She was last seen that morning, leaving her home in the 12600 block of Northwinds Drive, authorities say. Rothwell was typically in touch with her family and friends every day, but they became alarmed when she didnt show up for work and no one heard from her.