Jaime Mowers

6 days ago | timesnewspapers.com | Jaime Mowers

A Webster Groves child care center, under state scrutiny since an employee was charged earlier this year with abusing two children, abruptly closed last week. Here We Grow Early Childcare Center, 12 E. Lockwood Ave., notified parents Friday morning, May 23, that the center would permanently close at 6 p.m. that evening. In the email, Here We Grow owner Lindsay Jones cited a recent decline in enrollment and financial difficulties.

1 week ago | timesnewspapers.com | Jaime Mowers

Family and friends are mourning and remembering a Kirkwood man who was killed last week when his motorcycle struck a SUV on Watson Road near Girard Drive in Webster Groves. Tim Stafford, 60, died in the crash on May 20, two days before he would have turned 61. He enjoyed riding motorcycles, music, exploring, horseback riding, being in nature and having a good time, according to Trish Erwin, a friend of Stafford’s for nearly 30 years.

1 week ago | timesnewspapers.com | Jaime Mowers

A Webster Groves day care center that has been under state scrutiny since an employee earlier this year was charged with abusing two children there abruptly closed last week. Here We Grow Early Childcare Center at 12 E. Lockwood Ave. notified parents the morning of Friday, May 23, that the center would permanently close at 6 p.m. that evening. In the email parents received, Here We Grow owner Lindsay Jones cited a recent decline in enrollment and financial difficulties.

1 week ago | timesnewspapers.com | Jaime Mowers

A teenager who caused a fatal crash in Kirkwood last May that killed an area educator was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison. John E. Brink, 19, of the 7000 block of Whitworth Court in Affton, earlier this year pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the May 4, 2024, vehicle crash at the intersection of Big Bend and Geyer roads that killed 45-year-old Sarah Howell.

1 week ago | timesnewspapers.com | Jaime Mowers

A man riding a motorcycle was killed Tuesday afternoon when his motorcycle struck a vehicle on Watson Road near Girard Drive in Webster Groves, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The crash happened at 1:51 p.m. on May 20 when the 60-year-old man from Kirkwood, whose name has not yet been released, was traveling east on Watson Road on his 1998 Honda Valkyrie.