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  Share Source: welcomia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Roughly 115 inmates at the St. Louis Justice Center (SLJC) rioted early Saturday morning because of concerns over the jail's Wuhan coronavirus conditions. The jail, which is at roughly 89 percent of capacity, faces overcrowding challenges, meaning it's difficult for the inmates to be "socially distant" from one another. According to KSD-TV, inmates broke several windows and tossed items, like chairs, outside the windows. The inmates were able to get out of their cells because they "jimmy the locks," St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Ed...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... ST. LOUIS — Inmates at the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis reportedly smashed windows, created floods and set fires in the jail building Saturday morning, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Inmates at St. Louis Justice Center have taken over at least part of the jail. There have been protests over COVID-19 dangers inside. Not sure if this is part of that. pic.twitter.com/roSCtkIHSK Some 115 detainees on the fourth floor of the jail clogged toilets, creating floods, and set fires, spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson, Jacob Long, said. ...

What I’ve learned in nine months of covering the journalism crisis When I began writing this newsletter, in June, I imagined the local journalism crisis as a graph with a simple line, rising and falling with each wave of cuts, marking how the world of news was getting worse or getting better. After nine months of reporting, I’ve realized it’s not that simple. It’s not just about what the numbers mean for those who were laid off or furloughed, but sometimes, how the newsroom that is left survives. A graph shows what is lost and gained, but not what it means to undergo such radical fluc...

St. Louis is ready for 2021. We decided to look forward. This is not an exercise in fantastical thinking. We are not pretending the pandemic isn't still happening or that this hasn't been a depressing, enraging and exhausting year. Honestly, it will take a while to process 2020, and we don't have the appetite for it right now. So, forward. We asked 21 people (OK, we got carried away, and it turned into 23) in the St. Louis metro to tell us what they hope 2021 will bring. There are teachers here as well as activists, restaurant owners and political leaders. High school students who have spent ...

a 4-year-old little boy vanishing from his own home. mommy at work. the live in baby sitting when the little boy goes missing without a trace. 1:00 p.m., broad daylight. a tip leads police, cadaver dogs to the body of a 4-year-old boy stuffed in a duffel bag. wooded area, just two blocks from the missing boy's own home. bombshell tonight. after an exhaustive 100-day search by land, by air, by water, spanning the city of newburgh and the hudson river, tonight, we are standing by for autopsy results and a positive i.d. on the little body. the person of interest? mommy's 30-year-old liv...