Mayor Cara Spencer hired Gregg Favre, a former captain with the St. Louis Fire Department and deputy director of public safety for the State of Missouri, in November to head the city’s Emergency Management Agency. Former CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell was fired in August for their performance after the May 16 tornado.
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Dametria McDile, 32, experienced a medical emergency at the jail before she was taken to a local hospital, police said, where she was pronounced dead on Saturday.
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Desde su departamento en St. Louis, a principios del siglo 20, el reformista y activista mexicano Ricardo Flores Magón denunció el creciente aumento de la desigualdad económica, la explotación laboral y la corrupción política en México y Estados Unidos.
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The lawsuit argues Missouri would gain another congressional seat and Electoral College vote by excluding people without legal status from the count.
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The St. Louis Board of Education voted unanimously to appoint Robert Harvey to a vacant seat on Jan. 21 and was scheduled to swear him in on Tuesday but failed to do so without public explanation.
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Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly met for the second U.S. Senate debate of the election cycle Thursday to explain why they are the best candidate to fight President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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Ted Dabrowski trails in the latest Illinois Republican governor primary polls, but he argues sending former GOP nominee Darren Bailey into a rematch would be a mistake.
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According to the city medical examiner’s office, an investigation that will determine how the woman died will take eight to 12 weeks.
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Elle and Troika Brodsky live on the St. Louis city-county border. It is one of their home's unique quirks. But they hadn’t realized how much this quirk it would impact.
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From his St. Louis apartment in the early 1900s, Mexican reformer and activist Ricardo Flores Magón raised awareness of growing wealth inequality, labor exploitation and political corruption in Mexico and the U.S.
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Along with material for a massive bird blind, concrete can serve as the “future” of affordable housing construction, Pablo Moyano Fernández believes.
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