Jacob Barker

4 days ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri motorists may want to pump the brakes after the state's highway patrol said some of its cruisers are going incognito. The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced Friday that some of its patrol vehicles will begin using "ghost graphics," or low-visibility logo markings that make the fact that the vehicle is operated by law enforcement less obvious.

4 days ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

KIRKWOOD — Officials on Saturday afternoon lifted a citywide boil advisory for its municipal customers that had been in place since a water main break in southeast Kirkwood two days ago. Kirkwood — which runs its own municipal water department rather than using Missouri American Water like most of St. Louis County — said water samples it had tested met all federal drinking water safety requirements.

4 days ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

ST. LOUIS — A pedestrian was killed in a car crash Saturday morning on Interstate 70, shutting down eastbound lanes for two hours. St. Louis police said the accident reconstruction unit was investigating after a pedestrian crash around 8:40 a.m. on eastbound Interstate 70 at the Grand Avenue exit. One person has died, police said, but did not yet have other information about the victim or the vehicles involved.

5 days ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

ST. LOUIS — The man who controlled the city’s response to public record requests for the last four years, riling lawyers and journalists with delays and denials, is no longer the city’s Sunshine Law coordinator. Joseph Sims requested to be moved to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department as a records retention supervisor last month, around the time Mayor Cara Spencer took office.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Jacob Barker

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Lee Enterprises, parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, again got its lender to waive its monthly interest payment, the third month in a row the company has delayed debt payments in order to free up capital to recover from a cyberattack. But this time, Lee’s sole lender, Berkshire Hathaway Finance, demanded some concessions from Lee in exchange for another month of grace.