Every September, many residents of Troy, Illinois, turn out to remember Airman Bradley R. Smith. He died in Afghanistan in January 2010. They honor him with an annual 5K run. Smith's parents started the event as a way to remember their son, who was awarded the Silver Star for saving members of his unit while under fire. But Smith's father says the event has become bigger than his family's loss.
After the failure of Better Together, city and county leaders are planning to put their heads together to decide whether St. Louis and St. Louis County should merge. But even people amenable to a merger aren’t super optimistic this process will lead to systemic change.
St. Louis Public Radio's Andrea Henderson checks in with local members of Remember the 400 following their trip to Virginia to mark 400 years since the arrival of the first African slaves.
The Stanley Cup’s summer tour included five countries over three continents as it made its way to each Blues player, coach, executive, trainer, and equipment manager. The trophy will be back in St. Louis for the start of the new NHL season, before returning to its home at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. The "Keeper of the Cup" Phil Pritchard talks about the busy summer with the Stanley Cup champions.
The Manila-born artist spent some of the summer combing through archives from the 1904 World’s Fair, particularly materials related to the so-called Filipino Village. A site-specific installation building from those materials will be part of an exhibition that examines the use of photography and other images to create social narratives related to imperialism and colonization.
Tamia Coleman-Hawkins is 12 and the owner of Mia’s Treats Delight. Tamia, also known as Mia, told her mom she wanted to start a bakery when she was 8. She's gone on to inspire other kids to start their own businesses.
Missouri students can get two years of community college paid for if they complete 50 hours of tutoring through the A+ Scholarship Program. But access for low-income students is uneven.
The state of Missouri has taken some local control away from counties and cities to regulate where large livestock operations locate. We examine what the new regulations mean in Missouri.
When children are killed by gun violence it can have a ripple effect on the child’s school, from classmates to teachers. Crisis response counselors are sent in and learning can be disrupted as kids respond in different ways. But in neighborhoods where gun violence is the norm, even the youngest students can grow numb to the loss.
Local biologists are studying populations of venomous snakes that live in the St. Louis area, including copperheads. With the help of surgeons at the St. Louis Zoo, they're implanting tiny radio transmitters into the snakes and tracking their movements. The goal is to better understand where these elusive creatures live and hibernate.
The Midwest is tops in field corn production, but it does not stand out when it comes to national production of sweet corn. But for many in the Midwest, nothing says summer quite like a fresh hot ear of sweet corn — plain, buttered or salted.
The Rep's new artistic director, Hana Sharif, is the first black woman to hold that job at a member of the League of Resident Theatres. That is the nation’s largest professional regional theater organization. She is part of a wave of women taking artistic control of theaters in the past few years.
Veteran Erica Camp began adopting chickens that have been discarded from factory farms as a way of addressing her PTSD. She started an organization, Second Hen'd, focused on helping others adopt post-productive chickens. This summer, she started bringing her hens to a school for autistic children, to educate the kids about chickens.
Missouri resident Fidencio Fifield-Perez will premiere a new visual fiber design exhibit based on his time as a member of the DACA program. In his work, the artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, focuses on his experience as an immigrant.
More than 120,000 people, most of them children, have been dropped from Missouri's Medicaid rolls since the beginning of 2018. They've been dropped by the state or did not re-enroll. State officials say fewer people are using the program because they don't need it. But many families say they have unfairly and unwittingly lost coverage.
Tiny plant-eating insects known as treehoppers serenade each other during mating using vibrational songs. They can change depending on the temperature of the environment, which means climate change might disrupt treehopper mating in the future. SLU researchers have found that although the songs changed, female treehoppers still responded to them.
Children’s mental health is a big concern as the risk of suicide and opioid addiction rates rise among teens. But in rural areas, where mental health providers are scarce, spotting problems falls to teachers. Now a new national research center is looking to help rural schools.
Every September, former residents of Times Beach gather at Route 66 State Park near Eureka to remember their old town. It was once home to several thousand people but was so contaminated by dioxin in the 1970s that the EPA bought it out, tore it down and burned the earth in an incinerator. Former residents say Times Beach is a cautionary environmental lesson that should not be forgotten.
Democrats in Missouri have endured three bruising election cycles in a row, resulting in Republican dominance in the state's politics. The party's stalwarts are looking to state Auditor Nicole Galloway to engineer a comeback.
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia 400 years ago this month. The St. Louis chapter of Remember the 400 is headed there to commemorate the historic event. Part of the group's mission is to bridge the racial divide.
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