A veteran St. Louis County police captain was named to lead the department, becoming the county’s first female police chief. The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners chose Mary Barton to replace the retiring Jon Belmar. Barton, currently precinct ...

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St. Louis County has agreed to a $10.25 million settlement with a gay police lieutenant who says he was passed over for promotion 23 times and was told to “tone down” his “gayness.” The agreement with Keith Wildhaber was finalized ...

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Overdue library books won’t be costly for St. Louis borrowers anymore. Directors of the public library systems in St. Louis and St. Louis County announced Tuesday that they are joining a growing number of lenders that have stopped charging late ...

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Former St. Louis County Planning Commission Chairman Douglas Morgan was indicted on a federal bank fraud charge last week.

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The Missouri Supreme Court pulled one St. Louis County trash lawsuit off the curb yesterday when it agreed to hear the case.

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A fourth lawsuit concerning St. Louis County’s trash districts has been filed. The potential class action filed by plaintiffs Paul Marquis and Cathy Armbruster alleges that the county violated its own county charter by not having citizens vote on the ...

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A St. Louis County woman is suing the Special School District of St. Louis County for slander after its employee allegedly told Social Services that she ran a meth lab out of her home. According to the petition, all claims ...

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Produce vendors at farmers’ markets in St. Charles County can breathe easy. The food police won’t start regulating their operations. Some vendors at the St. Charles Lions Club Farmers’ Market apparently were caught off guard a week ago last Saturday ...

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Both St. Louis County and the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Lackawanna Chapter, based in Washington, N.J., claim ownership of the 104-year-old engine No. 952 in the long-running case.

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Almost 17 years after Herbert Smulls was convicted of first-degree murder it looks as if his case is coming to an end. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it won’t review Smulls’ claims that he is entitled to another ...

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A man sentenced to death for murdering his ex-girlfriend did not get any relief from the U.S. Supreme Court, which on Monday said it would not review his appeal. A St. Louis County jury convicted Scott McLaughlin of first-degree murder ...

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