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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

State Rep. Jim Murphys pledge for congressional term limits. Murphy represents the 94th District, which includes Oakville, in the Missouri House of Representatives.

Rep. Jim Murphy pledges support for congressional term limits

September 3, 2023

Missouri state Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, announced last month that he supports term limits on Congress. The announcement came in a press release from the nonpartisan group U.S. Term Limits, whose...

Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, announced his retirement March 8, and said that he would not seek re-election to his seat in 2022. Former State Sen. Scott Sifton, a Democrat, said earlier this year that he would be running for Blunts seat next year, although it is unclear who his Republican challenger might be.

Blunt announcement that he won’t run again in 2022 will likely spark crowded GOP Senate primary

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent March 11, 2021

U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt announced Monday he will not seek a third term, a shock to Missouri’s political system that could set off a scrum to replace him next year. In a message posted on social media, Blunt...

Alex Garcia, right, and his wife, Carly, meet with U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, left, at the church in Maplewood where he lived last week. She gave the Garcias a copy of her private bill to give him permanent residency in the U.S.

Man living in St. Louis County church leaves after immigration officials say they won’t deport him

February 24, 2021

Alex Garcia, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras who has been living in a Maplewood church for more than three-and-a-half years to avoid deportation, left the church at 3 p.m. Wednesday after federal...

The Sky Wars 2020 fireworks championship.

Nation’s largest fireworks championship ‘Sky Wars’ set for September in Wright City

February 4, 2021

The nation's largest fireworks championship will take place this September in Wright City, Missouri. Sky Wars —from the creators of the original Pyromania — will hold its 16th annual invitational...

An American red wolf looks at the camera, in a photo taken by Becky Bartel of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

St. Louis Zoo is creating a habitat to save red wolves at its Franklin County property

February 4, 2021

The St. Louis Zoo is transforming part of its land in Franklin County, Missouri, into a conservation habitat in hopes of saving the American red wolf from extinction, as the species has only 20 wolves...

On first day back in school, Oakville High student wears Confederate flag mask

On first day back in school, Oakville High student wears Confederate flag mask

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor January 22, 2021

A student wore a Confederate flag mask to Oakville High School Tuesday that apparently went either unnoticed or unreported by teachers for two 90-minute classes, upsetting students who reported the mask...

Joe Biden at a drive-in campaign rally at Broward College in Coconut Creek, Florida Oct. 29, 2020, 12 years after he came to South County for a campaign rally.

Remembering the time Joe Biden came to South County

By Burke Wasson, Staff Reporter January 20, 2021

With current civic life pretty much at a standstill, The Call has been taking a look back over the last few months at past events that impacted residents of South County. In 2008, then-U.S. Senator Joe...

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri speaks at the December 2018 christening of the USS St. Louis in Wisconsin.

Despite ‘clearly reckless’ actions, Roy Blunt says Trump should not resign

By Tessa Weinberg, Missouri Independent January 13, 2021

Despite “clearly reckless” actions by President Donald Trump that incited a mob that overtook the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt said Sunday morning on Face The Nation that Trump should...

Then-Senate candidate and now Sen. Josh Hawley speaks at a campaign stop in Ballwin, Missouri, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Hawley defeated incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in November 2018, receiving 51.43 percent of the vote compared to McCaskill’s 45.47 percent. Photos by Erin Achenbach.

Josh Hawley’s woes grow as another major backer abandons him

By Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent January 11, 2021

The list of Missouri supporters abandoning U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley grew Friday, when a prominent early backer accused him of “an act of reckless pandering” by raising objections as electoral votes were...

The U.S. Capitol building.

Police defend response to mob takeover at Capitol

By Laura Olson, Missouri Independent January 10, 2021

WASHINGTON — A day after a violent mob seeking to overturn the election forced its way into the U.S. Capitol, the chief of the law enforcement officers tasked with protecting that building and those...

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