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Effort to place St. Louis police under state control returns in Missouri legislature

Effort to place St. Louis police under state control returns in Missouri legislature

By Debra Chandler Landis, Missouri Independent February 19, 2024

Missourians voted in 2013 to return control of the St. Louis police department to local officials, ending more than 150 years of state oversight. And almost immediately, state lawmakers began pushing...

Little Leaders Academy hosts scavenger hunt for a cause

Little Leaders Academy hosts scavenger hunt for a cause

February 5, 2024

The Little Leaders Academy, a prekindergarten through sixth-grade nature-based microschool in Sappington, is holding a scavenger hunt at Whitecliff Park on Saturday to raise money for Eli Pratt, an 8-year-old...

State Rep. Brad Christ, R-Sappington.

State Rep. Brad Christ holds town hall to review 2023’s legislative session

By Ellie Marshall, Staff Reporter August 14, 2023

State Rep. Brad Christ, R-Sappington, and this year’s Freshman Legislator of the Year, held his second ever town hall meeting at Sunset Hills City Hall Aug. 8 to discuss the highs and lows of the year’s...

Rep. Ben Baker, R-Neosho, is sponsoring the bill, which he said the purpose of the bill is to ensure Missourians constitutional right to carry firearms when attending places of worship.

Missouri legislation seeks to allow guns in places of worship

By Brooke Muckerman, Columbia Missourian/Missouri Independent March 27, 2023

Missouri Republicans are making a push to allow firearms to be carried inside religious establishments and lessen restrictions on access to firearms. House Bill 485, heard in the House Emerging Issues...

Sappington man charged with custody interference, took children out of state

Sappington man charged with custody interference, took children out of state

December 15, 2022

A Sappington man is facing charges after police said he took his children, whom he does not have custody of, from their mother’s home in November and left the state with them. The St. Louis County...

UPDATE: Missing children from Sappington area located safely

UPDATE: Missing children from Sappington area located safely

November 29, 2022

Update: The advisory has been canceled after the two children were located safely. The suspect was also located.  The Missouri State Highway Patrol and St. Louis County Police Department have issued...

The Sappington House.

Sappington House hosting Sappington connection event

March 16, 2022

The Sappington House Foundation is organizing the Jemima Sappington Society to find and connect families who are descendants of this pioneer mother of 17 children. Jemima and John Sappington are the original...

Letters to the editor

Writer suggests a ‘simpler’ alternative to state’s redistricting process

October 28, 2021

To the editor: I refer to Carl Hendrickson’s article on the redistricting in the St. Louis Call’s Aug. 26 edition.  As I understand it, the main requirement for rating districts is equal population....

County sets a precedent for storage units to look better; Gravois up first

County sets a precedent for storage units to look better; Gravois up first

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 5, 2021

After a series of self-storage facilities have been opposed by neighbors across South County in recent years, one proposed along Gravois Road in Sappington is the first in unincorporated St. Louis County...

Letters to the editor

Asylum into U.S. might stop if country pulls out of 1967 UN Protocol

August 28, 2019

Letter to the Editor To the editor: In answer to Michael Broughton’s query in The Call July 11, I for one will continue to support President Trump. According to media reports, some 144,000 people...

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