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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Crestwood Ward 3 alderman selected to receive MPA 2001 Sunshine Award

Crestwood Ward 3 alderman selected to receive MPA 2001 Sunshine Award

March 8, 2022

This is a “blast from South County’s past” from the past 30 years of The Call’s archives. Originally published Aug. 9, 2001. Stay tuned for more glimpses into the area’s history. A Crestwood...

Jim Murphy

Murphy introduces social media literacy legislation

By Lucas Irizarry, Staff Reporter January 26, 2022

As social media continues to increase in popularity and usage, the need for education on responsible use of the internet is becoming more apparent. State Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, said today’s...

St. Louis Call wins awards in news and advertising

St. Louis Call wins awards in news and advertising

December 11, 2020

The St. Louis Call took home multiple awards this fall at both the news-centered Better Newspaper Contest from the Missouri Press Foundation and the advertising-centered MPAME (Missouri Press Advertising...

Gov. Mike Parson enters the stage, passing State Auditor Nicole Galloway before the Missouri gubernatorial debate at the Missouri Theatre in Columbia on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 (Robert Cohen for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Video: Watch the only debate between candidates for Missouri governor

October 30, 2020

The Missouri Press Association/KOMU-8 2020 Gubernatorial Forum took place Friday, Oct. 9, at the Missouri Theatre. The forum was broadcast and livestreamed across Missouri and nationally on CSPAN. The...

Gov. Mike Parson enters the stage, passing State Auditor Nicole Galloway before the Missouri gubernatorial debate at the Missouri Theatre in Columbia on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 (Robert Cohen for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Parson, Galloway spar on COVID, policing, health care in debate

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor October 22, 2020

In what will likely be the only in-person debate among the four candidates for Missouri governor, Gov. Mike Parson and state Auditor Nicole Galloway sparred over COVID-19, budget priorities and policing...

Newspaper wins top awards in state contest

Newspaper wins top awards in state contest

January 7, 2020

Call Newspapers won top awards at the Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest in 2019, including the first-place award for Best Website or Online Newspaper and awards in the Best News Story...

Bill Miller, right, former chief of staff to former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger, exits the Thomas F. Eagleton Court House in downtown St. Louis May 31. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Former St. Louis County Chief of Staff Bill Miller pleads guilty to felony corruption, faces prison time

May 31, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com He called it “the art of staying in power,” but Bill Miller, who served as chief of staff to former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger,...

South County senator wants to end some public newspaper notices

South County senator wants to end some public newspaper notices

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter April 10, 2019

One of South County’s senators is sponsoring a bill that would eliminate newspaper publication of some mandated public notices because, he said, newspapers are an “archaic” form of communication. A...

The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City.

Sunshine Law change is a ‘crisis to access’

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter February 13, 2019

with Ian Nickens, Gaelle Fournier and Kelsey Wu of the Columbia Missourian Missouri House members approved changes in the state Sunshine Law last week that would make communications between public officials...

Letters to the editor

Another View: History of public notices dates to country founding

December 5, 2018

By Mark Maassen Missouri Press Association On Dec. 6, the first provisions of medical marijuana in Missouri will be implemented, seemingly a departure from Missouri’s conservative political climate...

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