Beth O'Malley

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"After listening to our community's concerns, we have decided not to move forward," said a social media post from the department.

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Always fun to drive to a part of town you don’t visit often. And then get frozen custard at Fritz’s.

City SC has a shot at another record for unbeaten streaks and another chance to move into first in the West against Minnesota. Here are five things to know.

Aisha Sultan writes about the "unprovoked kindness" of Ginny Schrappen. She's an inspiring example of the idea of someone being the "hands and feet of Jesus." Our world needs more of this — pretty desperately. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

A lawsuit claiming more than a dozen men spent 11 days locked in a sewage-soaked holding cell will move forward after a federal judge called the allegations "nothing short of horrifying." The inmates' description of a clogged toilet, accounts of sleeping on mattresses on the floor, trying to fin...

City SC set an MLS record for an unbeaten streak over all competitions at 21 and qualified for the playoffs with a 0-0 tie with Vancouver

After finally drafting a will, writer Rose Maura Lorre took her end-of-life prep up a notch and got a kit called a Nokbox: a box of worksheets that you file away for any next of kin tasked with managing your earthly to-dos after you’re gone. nyti.ms/4jJuIwL

Breaking News: Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital 10 days after she survived an execution attempt, her lawyers said.

Not just the first Post-Dispatch publisher who wasn't a Pulitzer, he was the first not named Joseph Pulitzer. www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

Priests have been turned away, asked to wait for close to an hour to serve the dozens of Catholic detainees held by ICE at the county jail since last year,

"We owe it to our clients to do justice for their deceased son," Al Watkins told the Post-Dispatch.

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

The fact that City SC is in second in the West and third overall I think pretty much exceeds anyone's expectations for this season. www.stltoday.com/sports/profe...

Christa Pike, a Tennessee woman who was set to be executed on Wednesday, was still alive after two syringes of lethal drugs had been administered, her lawyers said. They said that while two syringes of pentobarbital had been administered, Pike still had a heartbeat and was audibly snoring.

A new state law that took effect a month ago has allowed St. Louis County authorities to charge a former teacher and cross-country coach with sexually abusing students decades ago. By @danarieck.bsky.social

Iowa borders Minnesota. And Missouri. So now we know which senator is the bigger college basketball fan.

St. Louis' board of police commissioners will hold a community feedback meting Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., at Harris-Stowe, College of Education building, room 204. (10 N. Compton)

Flock cameras are watching some Missouri nature centers. 'It kind of creeps me out'

County officials would not comment on whether officers were still using the technology in an investigative capacity. St. Louis police spokesman Mitch McCoy, however, said city officers still use the program. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

"Technology can be an important tool for law enforcement, but the public deserves to know that it is being used responsibly and for legitimate public safety purposes," Page said in a statement.

“If you haven’t heard of Flock, all I have to say is Flock’s probably heard of you,” Hawley said. “I’m sure we’re all in the database.”

From @danarieck.bsky.social: St. Louis County abused Amazon facial recognition tech, suit says. Wrong man went to jail.

Cortez Bufford was shot and killed by an officer four years after he had settled a lawsuit against the St. Louis department after officers beat him during a traffic stop.

"We’ve entered this new era, where it’s not targeted surveillance, it’s everywhere-all-the-time-all-at-once surveillance," said Dan Curry, an attorney with the Missouri Press Association.

Can you get Flock camera footage of your car? St. Louis-area cities don't agree

Data center debates have raged in the St. Louis area. In West Des Moines, residents have dealt with data centers for years. Here's what they've seen.

A measles outbreak that has infected at least 3,300 people in the United States so far this year — a 35-year high — continues to put a spotlight on the role of vaccines in preventing highly contagious diseases. Here’s what parents and caregivers need to know:

Find out how much St. Louis-area mayors, teachers, police and other public servants earned in 2025 with the Post-Dispatch's Public Pay database.

Today, I learned that one of the judges on the appellate bench is 86.

The order directs leaders to launch disciplinary proceedings, and possible criminal referrals, for "personal use, stalking, or unauthorized sharing" of license plate data.

City SC players with expiring contracts and club options: Ostrak, Baumgartl, Hiebert, Olivares, Pompeu, Totland, Brunet, McSorley, Perez, Yaro, Zengue. Player with expiring contract and no option: Jeong.

"I was so emotionally distraught that he was hitting her that hard while she was handcuffed," said a teen who videotaped the arrest.

A-mazing.

Wonder if you will be voting for a different congressional seat in November than you did in August? Use our lookup tool to see how things changed. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Trump: "We know people in North Ireland and people in Ireland sometimes say, 'Hey, when are you guys getting together,' right'"

“Now, they can move chess pieces around, but how do you do that when you have no chess pieces left?” www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11 surveillance boom. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

A Maryland Heights man commended for his service to the U.S. military during the war in his home country of Afghanistan has been arrested here by ICE officers and detained in a Ste. Genevieve County prison. The man's former military commander in Afghanistan, retired Army Col. Robert Benjamin, wh...

Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers have made nationwide waves this year. Tension is building in the St. Louis area and across Missouri.

As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍

"We're reviewing everything," Lt. Jeff Warner said in an interview Wednesday. "We have not had any cases of misuse to date."

In the years since Karen Chaplin’s daughter was killed by a man who got behind the wheel after huffing inhalants, she has shared her story countless times — with police,