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St. Louis police learn 4-year-old was shot by her sister, 5 The girl is in critical/stable condition today. Officers responded to the 1100 block of North 20th Street in the Carr Square neighborhood Saturday night. Author: Jacob Kuerth, KSDK Digital Published: 9:46 PM CDT April 10, 2021 Updated: 8:16 PM CDT April 11, 2021 ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Metro police released an update Sunday of the shooting of a 4-year-old girl: She is in critical/stable c...

Police: 4-year-old accidentally shot by sister in St. Louis April 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 4-year-old girl was accidentally shot by her 5-year-old sister while the girls were playing together with another sister at a home in St. Louis on Saturday, authorities said. Police said the girl was taken to a hospital in critical condition after the shooting in St. Louis Carr Square neighborhood Saturday night. At the time of the shooting, the 4-year-old was playing with her tw...

Listen / Aaron Fowlers new exhibition is his largest production to date. Aaron Fowler’s larger-than-life assemblages have been displayed at the Saatchi Gallery, the Hammer Museum and the New Museum. He’s had solo shows at the Columbus College of Art and Design and the Seattle Art Museum. This week, he finally debuts his first solo exhibition in his hometown. N2EXISTENCE: GENESIS opens March 6. Fowler’s largest production to date, it follows a yearlong residence at the ...

Hannibal Boxing Virgil Akins knocks down Vince Martinez during their fight for the vacant welterweight world title at the Arena in St. Louis on June 6,1958. Akins won by TKO in round four. Finally, after all the hard years toiling in hothouse gyms and all the years crisscrossing the country as an itinerant journeyman—smoke-filled halls, catcalls and hisses when facing the local hero, narrow losses tallied on doubtful scorecard after doubtful scorecard—Virgil Akins became one of The Chosen. ...

What happened to Carr Square? The neighborhood flourished for a century before modernist city planners replaced it with what they saw as the future. Carr Square Park, Compton and Drys Pictorial St. Louis, 1876 Neighborhoods in St. Louis were annihilated in the years after World War II in the name of “progress.” I’ve looked at Mill Creek in the past, and recently I investigated the vanished Kosciusko neighborhood on the near South Side. But a neighborhood that almost no one rememb...

From left, Misha Marshall, Richard Weiss and Leyla Fern King. The 63106 ZIP code houses some of St. Louis’ most vulnerable residents. Located just north of downtown, it includes the largely African American St. Louis neighborhoods of Old North, Carr Square, Columbus Square and Jeff VanDerLou. A Washington University study famously found an 18-year difference in the life expectancy of its residents compared to the largely white, affluent denizens of Clayton’s 63105 ZIP code. Richard Weiss wa...