By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
• May 11, 2021
In an historic vote, the Missouri House signed off Tuesday on legislation creating a prescription drug monitoring program — inching one step closer to ending Missouri’s designation as the only state...
Representing the state of Missouri, Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging St. Louis County's ongoing public-health mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lawsuit,...
A lower COVID-19 transmission rate in the St. Louis region and declining case averages have paved the way for Mehlville School District students to attend class five days a week in person, and with more...
Meagan Ochoa will be the principal at Oakville Elementary School beginning with the 2021-2022 school year.
The Mehlville School District Board of Education unanimously voted to approve Ochoa’s hiring...
Like everything this year, proms at both Oakville and Mehlville high schools are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and will not happen as usual.
A “senior event” that will be an alternative to prom...
A Missouri Lottery player in Oakville bought a Mega Millions ticket that is now worth $1 million following Tuesday night’s drawing.
The ticket – sold at a Wallis Petroleum Mobil station located at...
St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis are open again without any capacity restrictions for the first time in more than a year, although restrictions such as masks and social distancing continue.
Under...
The Mehlville School District could be receiving more money from its Proposition S bond issue than it had originally bargained for due to lower interest rates, giving the district a chancse to address...
A new Starbucks along Telegraph Road in Oakville would be drive-thru only, after customers have gotten used to picking up their morning coffee from their cars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Oakville...
Rep. Jim Murphy has had a busy legislative session in 2021 working on state oversight on public-health orders and setting up a mass vaccination event while also conducting a series of food drives in South...
