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Advertisement Week of May 10 - May 16           South Grand Battles Back By Ryan Krull In the mid-1980s Dave McCreery, now 82, was drinking with one of his fellow Moolah Shriner clowns at a Shriners Temple in St. Louis when his pal, who worked construction, said that he was thinking about buying a building for sale on South Grand Boulevard. Find out more Advertisement Latest Stories Gender-Affirming Care Restrictions May Drive Families Out of Missouri By Monica Obradovic At the Missouri State Capitol in January, Keeley Kromat did one of the few things she thought she could do: She begged. Kromat, a mother of two daughters, told a room full of strangers some of her family's most personal stories in a plea for them to reconsider a bill that would restrict health care for transgender minors. Read more VIDEO: Cherokee Street Entrepreneur Says City Ignored Complaints About Shootings By Ryan Krull After this weekend's deadly shooting outside the Exotic Bar and Grill on Cherokee Street, a nearby business owner tells the RFT that she's been trying for years to alert elected leaders and the police to the violence that seems to regularly occur outside the bar. Brittany Morris owns Love Goddess Healing Oasis, a spiritual healing center adjacent to Exotic, and she says that shootings outside the business next door are nothing new. Read more The Voice Recap: St. Louis' Neil Salsich Falls Too Soon By Steve Leftridge Kelly Clarkson and her stupid hair extensions are dead to us. In an outrageous decision that flies in the face of all taste and logic, last night Clarkson failed to move Neil Salsich through to compete in the live playoffs on The Voice. Read more This Sweet Dog Has Been at a St. Louis Shelter for 583 Days By Jaime Lees The volunteers at St. Animal Pet Adoptions can't believe that one of their favorite dogs, Zayne, still hasn't found a forever home. Read more This St. Louis Woman Made $14K Washing Strangers' Laundry By Monica Obradovic Leah Sage came across an interesting new app on Facebook three years ago. The app, SudShare, boasted that "sudsters" could make up to $20 per hour by washing strangers' laundry. Read more More this week Advertisement Advertisement   Copyright © 2023 Riverfront Times, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list   update subscription preferences