St. Louis-area schools leaders and healthcare providers are turning schools into hubs for healthcare, counseling, food assistance and other services once handled by separate institutions.
Clayton is unveiling a plaque to commemorates the original location of a Black church before it moved to St. Louis City. But perhaps, several say, the church deserves more than a historical marker for the actions of Clayton’s past.
St. Louisans haven’t given up on new life for the former Lutheran Hospital complex, but absentee owners and litigation have created complications.
Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta has been hammered for years by environmental groups backed by scores of studies around the world linking paraquat to Parkinson’s, the world’s fastest growing brain disease.
Owner of a small Oklahoma cattle ranch, Joe Harrison’s lawsuit is one of nearly 6,500 so far filed against both Syngenta and Chevron, which distributed paraquat until the mid-1980s, in East St. Louis.
When I met Ernest Curry, he had already survived the tornado that struck St. Louis on May 16, the daily drip of water leaking through the tarped ceiling above his head. What I didn’t know then was that he would not survive much longer.
The Trump administration’s cuts to biomedical funding could have big repercussions for potential cures, including drugs that promise to ease Parkinson’s Disease. Several of the most promising drugs were developed with significant federal funding and under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health and the Parkinson’s Research Program — among dozens of research programs threatened by budget cuts.
An EF3 tornado roared across north St. Louis on May 16 and sent 81-year-old Ernest Curry scrambling inside his home. Like so many families displaced or living in damaged homes, Curry has received financial help that falls far short of what’s needed to rebuild. For older residents on fixed incomes, the gap can feel insurmountable.
In a Cold War-era experiment, men in protective suits in the mid-1950s pumped a cloudy substance outside the giant Pruitt-Igoe apartment complex. Many residents at the time associated the fogging with mosquito control efforts. It wasn’t until 40 years later that the government revealed that the workers had sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide, a potential carcinogen around the complex and in other St. Louis places as well.
Neighbors wrestle with the creek’s dark legacy and long history of being dangerously contaminated with radioactive waste. The radioactive materials came from a factory in downtown St. Louis that during World War II had enriched uranium for the first atomic bombs.