Jacob Barker

3 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Lee Enterprises, the parent company of the Post-Dispatch, has disclosed that the personal information of nearly 40,000 people "may have been accessed or acquired" in a February cyberattack. The hack hobbled the company's newspapers for weeks and caused it to delay several debt payments. The company sent an email to employees Wednesday saying it had completed its investigation into the Feb. 3 breach and that some employees may have had their personal information compromised.

3 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

ST. LOUIS — Johnel Langerston moved quickly to tarp the basketball court in the gymnasium of the old St. James United Church of Christ Campus, near the southeast edge of O’Fallon Park. Some warping of the floor was still obvious two weeks after the tornado that tore through north St. Louis ripped the roof off of the gym, exposing the court where . The roof’s remnants laid just over the fence, on the property next door, where the cloistered “Pink Sisters” stay at the Mount Grace Convent.

3 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

ST. LOUIS — The city will demolish nearly 200 tornado-damaged buildings owned by the Land Reutilization Authority and may revive a controversial building stabilization program that was ended just weeks ago by the mayor. Of the approximately 2,900 LRA properties in the path of the May 16 twister, 373 still had structures on them and 182 of those were severely damaged, said Otis Williams, interim director of the St. Louis Development Corp.

3 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

ST. LOUIS — The sounds of nail guns and roofing hammers echoed through the neighborhood as Lisa Mannery surveyed the impassible pile of branches stacked in her backyard. An HVAC unit hung precariously from the roof of the still-closed Save A Lot on Natural Bridge Avenue behind her house. Her roof, like many others nearby, was covered by a blue tarp, though she’s able to stay in her home as she sorts through insurance and contractors.

4 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

JEFFERSON CITY — The state is making a $750,000 pool of money available to pay people helping clean up the wreckage from the May 16 tornado. The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development said the money will fund temporary wages for people helping with recovery efforts from the tornado that tore through St. Louis, damaging hundreds of buildings and killing five.