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Last weekend was a wild one, and here’s the proof: Experts are now saying that there were at least 12 tornadoes spawned locally by the strong storms in the St. Louis area last Saturday. Expert investigators have been looking over recorded wind speed, damage to property and video evidence all week to determine where and […]

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Jim Merkel’s book Walking South City: A Journey through Historic St. Louis Neighborhoods . You can preorder it now at reedypress.com . This book began with an eight-mile walk that my publisher, Josh Stevens, took with his son in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. The trek from […]

Senate candidate Lucas Kunce announced today he raised $1.1 million in the first three months of the year, a haul his campaign says is a record for a candidate challenging an incumbent senator in Missouri. According to a statement put out by the Kunce campaign, the money raised is approximately four times the amount raised […]

Missourians are pretty evenly split on their opinions of Senator Josh Hawley. Just as many, if not more, voters view him unfavorably as favorably, according to a copy of a memo from Change Research obtained by the RFT . The San Francisco-based polling firm compiled data from 1,267 Missouri voters, 43 percent of whom said […]

It’s true that New York, New York, is a hell of a town — and, sure, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. But when it comes to great American cities, St. Louis has New York City licked. Witness the results of a very recent, very hotly contested Twitter poll pitting […]

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death , which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. On November 20, 2003, 45-year-old Beverly Guenther was abducted outside the office where she worked in Earth City, Missouri. She was stabbed and raped, her lifeless […]