Colleen Schrappen

3 days ago | stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen

STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY — The families at St. Joseph School were in a position familiar to many Catholics: The parish school they loved was shutting down. They found out in November through a leak on social media, weeks before it was officially announced by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. St. Joseph, about 60 miles south of St. Louis in unincorporated Zell, is the smallest school in the archdiocese. It has 27 pupils — total — in kindergarten through fifth grades. Still, the news came as a shock.

2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen

ST. LOUIS — The wallpaper in Peggy Winckowski’s south St. Louis kitchen is covered in lemons. For the past six weeks, she’s been handing visitors a Sharpie and asking them to sign one. “When life gives you lemons, you hang lemon wallpaper,” jokes Winckowski, 68. During her low moments, the names scrawled across the fruit vines remind her of the people who, for almost three years, have lifted her out of her grief. Many are teenagers — high school seniors, like her Sam would be.

1 month ago | stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen |Dan Caesar

ST. LOUIS — Brian McKenna, a broadcaster known for his no-holds-barred take on local sports and for championing philanthropic causes, died early Saturday crossing Hampton Avenue not far from his house in St. Louis Hills. He was 61. McKenna was walking west, across a bend in the four-lane roadway between Nottingham and Murdoch avenues, when a car driving south struck him, according to St. Louis police.

1 month ago | stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen

MOLINE ACRES — A three-car collision on Lewis & Clark Boulevard left a 32-year-old woman dead Friday evening. Two others, including a 10-year-old boy, were hospitalized with serious injuries, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. The wreck happened about 8:20 p.m. A 59-year-old man driving a 2020 Dodge Journey was headed north on Lewis & Clark near Sunbeam Lane.

1 month ago | stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen

ST. LOUIS — A man walking across Hampton Avenue in the St. Louis Hills neighborhood of St. Louis was fatally struck by a motorist early Saturday, according to St. Louis police. The pedestrian, in his 60s, was heading west across a bend in the four-lane roadway, between Nottingham and Murdoch avenues, when a car driving south hit him, police said. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene just after 1 a.m.The driver, who was uninjured, was cooperating with investigators, police said.