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4 days ago | 
argus-press.com | Heather Hollingsworth
St. Louis has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that inmates at a former medium-security jail were housed in “inhumane conditions” that included rodent feces in food, infestations of bugs and snakes, and unbearable overcrowding.
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4 days ago | 
chronicle-tribune.com | John Hanna |Heather Hollingsworth
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area who were on their way back from a tournament were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas. Authorities said the other victims in Sunday's crash on a two-lane stretch of U.S. 169 about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, included three members of a St. Louis-area family.
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5 days ago | 
argus-press.com | Sally Ho |Heather Hollingsworth
The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people. In recent months, HUD has been targeting the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that expanded protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Also in the bull's-eye are fair-housing complaint investigations and federally funded homeless shelters.
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5 days ago | 
chronicle-tribune.com | Sally Ho |Heather Hollingsworth
The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people. In recent months, HUD has been targeting the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that expanded protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Also in the bull's-eye are fair-housing complaint investigations and federally funded homeless shelters. kAm“%9:D 25>:?:DEC2E:@?
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5 days ago | 
chronicle-tribune.com | Heather Hollingsworth |Sally Ho
As a transgender man, the words “you’re a girl” gutted Tazz Webster, a taunt hurled at him from the day he moved into his St. Louis apartment. The government-subsidized building's manager also insisted on calling Webster by the wrong name, the 38-year-old said, and ridiculed him with shouts of, “You’re not a real man!”kAm“x ;FDE 76=E =:<6 x H2D 36:?8 E6CC@C:K65[” (63DE6C E@=5 %96 pDD@4:2E65 !C6DD] “x 76=E E92E x H2D 36:?8 ;F5865 2?5 >:DEC62E65[ =:<6 x H2D =6DD @7 2 9F>2? 36:?8]”k^AmkAm%96?
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5 days ago | 
argus-press.com | Heather Hollingsworth |Sally Ho
As a transgender man, the words “you’re a girl” gutted Tazz Webster, a taunt hurled at him from the day he moved into his St. Louis apartment. The government-subsidized building's manager also insisted on calling Webster by the wrong name, the 38-year-old said, and ridiculed him with shouts of, “You’re not a real man!”“I just felt like I was being terrorized,” Webster told The Associated Press.
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6 days ago | 
insurancejournal.com | John Hanna |Heather Hollingsworth
Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area who were on their way back from a tournament were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas. Authorities said the other victims in Sunday’s crash on a two-lane stretch of U.S. 169 about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, included three members of a St. Louis-area family.
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1 week ago | 
ncnewsonline.com | Heather Hollingsworth |Sally Ho
As a transgender man, the words “you’re a girl” gutted Tazz Webster, a taunt hurled at him from the day he moved into his St. Louis apartment. The government-subsidized building's manager also insisted on calling Webster by the wrong name, the 38-year-old said, and ridiculed him with shouts of, “You’re not a real man!”kAm“x ;FDE 76=E =:<6 x H2D 36:?8 E6CC@C:K65[” (63DE6C E@=5 %96 pDD@4:2E65 !C6DD] “x 76=E E92E x H2D 36:?8 ;F5865 2?5 >:DEC62E65[ =:<6 x H2D =6DD @7 2 9F>2? 36:?8]”k^Am kAm%96?
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1 week ago | 
siouxcityjournal.com | John Hanna |Heather Hollingsworth
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area who were on their way back from a tournament were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas. Authorities said the other victims in Sunday's crash on a two-lane stretch of U.S. 169 about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, included three members of a St. Louis-area family.
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1 week ago | 
koamnewsnow.com | John Hanna |Heather Hollingsworth
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area who were on their way back from a tournament were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas. Authorities said the other victims in Sunday's crash on a two-lane stretch of U.S. 169 about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, included three members of a St. Louis-area family.
