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The helicopter is shown with its tail rotor missing, after it broke off mid-flight.

St. Louis County officers uninjured as helicopter rotor breaks off in training flight

August 6, 2020

Two police officers were uninjured and able to successfully land one of the St. Louis County Police Department's helicopters when the tail rotor broke off Thursday during a training flight, but no one...

Isad Menkovic, a third-grade student at Oakville Elementary, completes a math lesson.

Bayless votes for an all-virtual start to the school year

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 6, 2020

The Bayless Board of Education voted at an in-person special meeting Wednesday night to begin the 2020-2021 school year with all-virtual school as coronavirus cases in the St. Louis region continue to...

Members of the Lindbergh High School Class of 2020 graduate in masks at an outdoor drive-in graduation at the PowerPlex in Hazelwood in June 2020.

Lindbergh will start school year with K-3 students in person, all virtual for 4-12

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 6, 2020

Lindbergh Schools will start school this fall with only students third grade and younger in the buildings, while all students from fourth grade through high school will be attending virtually due to the...

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Man in custody after shooting at Affton gas station

August 6, 2020

An Imperial man is charged with shooting a man in a gas station parking lot in Affton after they got into an argument. The St. Louis County Police Department received a 911 call at roughly 4:45 p.m....

A patron picks up some books at the reopening of the St. Louis County Librarys Daniel Boone Branch Library in Ellisville on June 19, 2020. Some areas of the library are sectioned off for social distancing.

St. Louis County Library closes all branches again, returns to curbside-only service

August 6, 2020

The St. Louis County Library again closed all its branches last week, in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The libraries returned to curbside-only service July 29, in a move announced...

A Mehlville School District employee hands out emergency food boxes from Operation Food Search to students receiving grab-and-go meals while students are out of school during the pandemic.

Mehlville Board of Education votes to start school year virtually

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 5, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education voted unanimously in an in-person meeting Wednesday night to start the 2020-2021 school year entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising cases in the St. Louis...

Students at Gateway Dance Conservatory rehearse for the studio’s first full-length production of
Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ in Pacific Nov. 23, 2019. Gateway is a nonprofit studio that meets at The
Pavilion at Lemay and provides underprivileged dance students with scholarships and other financial
aid, as well as inclusionary classes for students with special needs. Gateway performed ‘The
Nutcracker’ in December 2019 at Bayless High School. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Bayless looks at all-virtual school for first quarter of year

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 5, 2020

As coronavirus cases in the St. Louis region continue to climb, the Bayless Board of Education will vote at a special meeting Wednesday night whether to begin the 2020-2021 school year with all-virtual...

Incoming Hancock second-grader Aubrey-Nicholson, first-grader Makenna Kessler and second-grader Moussa Moftin read their brand new books together at the Bring Me a Book event in summer 2018. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer.

Hancock will go all-virtual to start school year, instead of five days a week in class

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 5, 2020

Due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in St. Louis County, the Hancock Place School District will begin the 2020-2021 school year 100-percent virtual, the district said Tuesday, after initially announcing...

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page attends the ribbon cutting ceremony at 9 Mile Garden, a food truck garden in Affton that claims to be the first in the state. The food truck garden officially opened July 3.

PHOTOS: 9 Mile Garden opens for 28 days and has to close

August 5, 2020

Missouri's first food truck garden, 9 Mile Garden in Affton, officially opened to the public July 3 after a long-anticipated wait. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and 6th District County Councilman...

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, right, and his wife, Jennifer, head to the polls Tuesday morning, Aug. 4, 2020, in Creve Coeur to vote for Page in the Democratic primary. Jennifer Page was dressed in scrubs to head to her job at Mercy Hospital South.

South County Election Results: Page and Burns win

August 4, 2020

A number of local primary races were decided in elections today, Tuesday, Aug. 4. Among the key races for South County, County Executive Sam Page earned a likely re-election bid over challengers Mark...

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