South St. Louis County News

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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Lori and Ernie Trakas

Post-corruption, Trakas focuses on the 6th District

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor June 24, 2021

Four years into Ernie Trakas’ tenure as the St. Louis County Council member for the 6th District, he is finally able to pursue his own vision for St. Louis County instead of opposing one from someone...

Former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger exits the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Louis May 3, 2019, after pleading guilty to three charges of theft of honest services/bribery and mail fraud. Stenger initially pleaded not guilty to the charges at an arraignment April 29 after an April 25 indictment was unsealed that morning, prompting Stenger to resign as county executive minutes later.

Stenger released from prison, back in St. Louis

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor June 8, 2021

Former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger is out of prison and back in St. Louis. Stenger, a Democrat, served as South County’s County Council member until he was elected county executive, taking...

Town hall on Jamestown Mall set for tonight

Town hall on Jamestown Mall set for tonight

March 4, 2021

The new St. Louis County Council member representing the 4th District, Councilwoman Shalonda Webb, is hosting a town hall at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 4, about Jamestown Mall. The town hall will be held...

Above: A rendering of the Affton Southwest Precinct.

New precinct will move forward, Trakas says

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor October 22, 2020

The St. Louis County Council learned Oct. 6 that the county scuttled plans for a new county police precinct in South County to build the new North County Precinct instead, but 6th District Councilman Ernie...

Above: A rendering of the Affton Southwest Precinct.

New Affton Southwest Precinct will move forward, Trakas says

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor October 14, 2020

The St. Louis County Council learned last week that the county scuttled plans for a new county police precinct in South County to build the new North County Precinct instead, but 6th District Councilman...

Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway announces that she will perform an audit of St. Louis County at the St. Louis County Library headquarters May 15, 2019, after the County Council voted unanimously to approve an audit May 7. Former County Executive Steve Stenger requested an audit of the county two years ago, but then-council Chairman Sam Page, now the county executive, declined.

State audit finds Stenger enabled by council, county auditor, Charter

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor September 22, 2020

Poor oversight by the County Council, an auditor who doesn’t audit and a county Charter that tilts the balance of power in St. Louis County to the county executive all contributed to the lack of oversight...

John Rallo exits the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse Thursday, March 5 after being sentenced to 17 months in prison for his role in a federal corruption case involving former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger.

Businessman in Stenger case sentenced to 17 months in prison

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor March 5, 2020

The businessman who urged former County Executive Steve Stenger to give him lucrative county contracts in exchange for campaign donations was sentenced to 17 months in prison Thursday — lower than federal...

Chief Jon Belmar, right, speaks at the memorial for Officer Blake Snyder held at Affton High School the night Snyder was killed, Oct. 6, 2016, with Sgt. Keith Wildhaber, second from left, looking on. Photo by Bill Milligan.

County settles Wildhaber case for $10.25 million

February 20, 2020

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com St. Louis County settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by an Oakville police sergeant Feb. 10, going into a debt that taxpayers will be paying...

Top 10 Stories of the Year: Merger, Stenger and trolley place regionalism on St. Louis center stage

Top 10 Stories of the Year: Merger, Stenger and trolley place regionalism on St. Louis center stage

January 9, 2020

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com With the leaked news that nonprofit organization Better Together was proposing a sweeping city-county merger that would merge St. Louis County...

Pictured above: Police board member Laurie Westfall, left, speaks during an emergency board meeting Tuesday.  Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Page appoints two new police board members after $20 million discrimination verdict

November 1, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com St. Louis County Executive Sam Page promised all week that he would appoint new members to the county Board of Police Commissioners Friday,...

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