St. Louis County

I'm Abbey Larico.

The School of Hard Knocks is in session for some St. Louis County wildlife, and it's Decision Day at SLPS.

Plus one for us honorary grads of PS118.

The beloved cartoon Hey Arnold debuted in 1996, and 30 years later, fans are still listening to the show's cool, jazzy score from Missouri native Jim Lang.

You can catch up on all the details at stlpr.org or by clicking the link in our show note.

The Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation are celebrating the completion of twin bridges across the Mississippi River.

A new westbound span of Interstate 270 will be open next Monday connecting North St. Louis County to the Metro East.

It's the third iteration of the Chain of Rocks bridges connecting Granite City to Bell Fountain neighbors.

County officials say another 1% would take $720,000 out of the general fund the council has until December 21st to pass the budget.

The St. Louis County Council expected to introduce a new office lease in St. Anne today, a day after County Executive Sam Page released a plan to skip leasing space entirely.

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county has to be out of the Roos building in Clayton by the end of 2027 because it lacks fire sprinklers.

The council, though, wants a 10-year lease at the crossings at Northwest and St. Ann, which, under terms shared in April, would start at about $1.2 million a year.

A committee of the whole was held on Monday about this.

We are here to receive an update and to... discuss the status of the St. Louis County leasing at Northwest Crossings.

But they immediately went into closed session.

We got Uber cars years after other states and municipalities received them.

I'm sure the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County, won't have Waymo cars for quite a while.

And as I've said, I'm not a big fan of them.

I just...

So, You know, a lot of folks are saying that this 7-1 map situation actually created a 5-3 map.

Others are worried that if the first district is redone, that you're going to have to dilute a lot of the first district and the Republican districts surrounding that to get Republicans into that, that you could create another Democratic district and we would be 4-4, which would be a frightening, frightening thing.

You know, we talked about last week how St. Charles County, how surprising it was that St. Louis County went from 11 representatives in the statehouse to eight.

Now there are three Democrats.

Tell him, like, look, I don't have any money to go on a trip, and that's it.

We're going to St. Louis County, Missouri, where four suspects have been charged in St. Louis County, Missouri, following a bureau beating of a 63-year-old retired truck driver, Lance Jeffries, after a minor traffic crash.

Here's the report.

I'm sorry, I try to get through this without laughing.

By looking at her, you know, gun well, she don't talk like that.

Attackers in this video.

This is Mary Moore seen kicking a 63-year-old man on the ground after a fender bender in North St. Louis County.

She tells me that she regrets her decision and was angry after the accident.

Liberal candidates across St. Charles County winning all the school board elections and then the gains made in state representation and other areas that have happened in August and now in November.

Do you feel like St. Charles County is heading down the same line that we have seen other communities in St. Louis County as becoming a blue area? Because I think that would terrify a lot of residents.

But I feel like if we don't draw the line, that's the path we're on.

What do you think?

And as more needs arose or became more obvious in our community and we were able to gather more resources, we grew.

And today we serve almost 40,000 people across St. Louis City and St. Louis County, primarily North St. Louis County.

We have eight health center locations, and we provide a full array of primary healthcare services.

That is medical, dental, behavioral health.

If you are planning a visit to Lone Elk Park, you will need to hold off for a while.

St. Louis County officials have announced.

Oh, no.

What is this? Why did that happen? That Lone Elk Park is closed for further notice.

St. Charles County passed a six-month moratorium.

St. Louis County is drafting zoning rules after residents pushed for a full

moratorium.

So, you know, we said the AI build out was being financed as though nothing could slow it.