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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones called for investigations into the city’s building division after corruption allegations against inspectors.

St. Louis-based activists Omali Yeshitela, Penny Joanne Hess and Jesse Nevel will not face prison time. The three are connected with the African People's Socialist Party and Uhuru Solidarity Movement and were indicted last year for failing to register as Russian agents. A jury acquitted them of that charge.

The 14 men worked for front companies that advertised fully remote IT workers. All told, prosecutors said, the scheme funneled $88 million to the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

A Florida judge will sentence Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, three St. Louis residents and members of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, next Monday. The three were found not guilty of acting as illegal Russian agents but face charges for conspiracy to act as Russian agents.

In addition to allegedly stealing at least $120,000 from Circus Flora, George Pace is also accused of fraudulently applying for pandemic small business relief.

Ashley Johnson came to St. Louis from the FBI’s human resources division in Washington, DC. She began her career with the bureau in 2007 and spent much of her time at offices in the South.

According to Courage2Report, a Missouri statewide school safety initiative, there have already been 125 reported school violence tips between July and September — which is nearly as many as the number of tips reported in all of 2023.

Biden called to "lower the temperature" in politics in remarks Sunday after the former president was shot at during a political rally.

The 20-year-old gunman came within a matter of inches of killing the former president, but investigators are still struggling to understand what may have motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks.

The GOP presumptive presidential nominee left a Pennsylvania hospital on Saturday after authorities say a 20-year-old shot into the crowd at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.