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small tight knit community about 18,000 people. it describes itself as the cross roads to hill country. now, now the people here nearly 80% latino, many stretching back for generations reeling from the horrors of one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. at least 19 children and two teachers were murdered. in the wake of horror like this, we often hear the word unimaginable but here its almost as this is becoming easier and easier to imagine tragedies like this although ive go...

CLAYTON — A candidate applying to serve as the head of St. Louis Countys jail assured County Council members Thursday he would stay in the job longterm, after years of

County Executive Sam Page nominated longtime federal probation expert Kito Bess to run the jail following years of director turnover.

 All shifts now have a full compliment of four crew members. The personnel shifts in the department in recent months have included the retirement of B shift Capt. Bob Jefferson and the promotion of fire inspector Kathy Rohrich to assistant fire chief and Ron Parks to B shift captain. The hiring of two firefighters in 2020, Robert Shelley and Brandon Parks and the newest addition of Josh Jelcick rounds out the department at full strength. The promotion of Rohrich makes her the highest ranking...