by Ashley Byrd | Nov 27, 2014 | News
Despite the unrest in nearby Ferguson, Missouri’s high school football championships will be held in St. Louis Friday and Saturday. The 47th year of the Show-Me Bowl, a Thanksgiving weekend tradition, brings 14 teams and hundreds of supporters from all over the...
by Ashley Byrd | Nov 24, 2014 | News
A policeman’s fatal shooting of a black teenager 115 days ago made a St. Louis suburb a national epicenter of racial hostility, law enforcement frustration, outsider agitation — and yes, peaceful protest. And now all involved are bracing for the...
by Ashley Byrd | Sep 6, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The deadly shooting of a teenager by a local police officer in a small suburb of St. Louis has turned into a story of defiance and local racial conflict revealed to the rest of the world by professional journalists, working alongside citizens using social media. At...
by Ashley Byrd | Aug 13, 2014 | News
Missourinet reporters have been at the State Fair this week, learning, exploring, meeting Missourians–and having a bit of precocious fun. The fair can bring out the kid in all of us, and it has in our Bill Pollock. See for yourself: