Mark Schlinkmann

4 days ago | stltoday.com | Mark Schlinkmann |Austin Huguelet

ST. LOUIS — Two restaurateurs, a car dealer, a photography business owner and an ousted city personnel director are Gov. Mike Kehoe's picks for the reconstituted St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners taking control of the city's police force this year. Kehoe told reporters at a press conference that the picks marked the “next step for public safety in the city of St. Louis,” Kehoe said.

6 days ago | stltoday.com | Mark Schlinkmann

ST. LOUIS — Susan C. Thomson, an editor, business columnist and reporter over nearly three decades at the Post-Dispatch, is dead at 86. Thomson died June 8 in hospice care in University City, where she lived in recent years. Thomson joined the Post-Dispatch in 1976 and spent seven years, from 1982 to 1989, as business editor, followed by a two-year stint as a columnist on business issues. She was the first woman to serve as the newspaper’s business editor.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Mark Schlinkmann

ST. LOUIS — The federal Emergency Management Agency on Saturday will open its first disaster recovery center in the city to help residents affected by the May 16 tornado. The center, at the Union Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, 626 North Newstead Avenue, will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.  It will be closed Sunday, but will be open during the same hours Monday through next Saturday. Additional FEMA locations in the city will be made public next week.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Mark Schlinkmann

CRESTWOOD — A man riding a bicycle died after he was struck by a vehicle Thursday afternoon in the 9900 block of Big Bend Road near Grant's Trail, authorities said. The victim died after he was taken to a hospital, St. Louis County police said. The incident took place about 12:30 p.m. The victim's name and other details have yet to be released. The location is on the boundary between Crestwood and Oakland.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Mark Schlinkmann

BOWLING GREEN, Mo. — Police Chief Ty Bounds, who stirred controversy here this year alleging a local sheriff's deputy might have helped cover up a death, has resigned. Bounds resigned by email on Monday, effective immediately, officials said. Jim Arico, the mayor of the northeast Missouri town, said Bounds didn't cite a reason for his departure. "He did a good job for us," Arico said. Bounds' attorney, Christopher Lozano, confirmed that Bounds had resigned but didn't comment further.