The St. Louis Board of Aldermen rejected a bill that would create a buffer zone around health care facilities, including Planned Parenthood.

Board Bill 34 failed by a vote of 9-15 on April 16, the last day of the aldermanic session.

The full board voted 15-13 to perfect the bill, but for the final vote, several aldermen who previously supported it changed their votes from "yes" to "no" — including Brandon Bosley (Ward 3), Terry Kennedy (Ward 18), Sam Moore (Ward 4) and Lisa...

In his Jubilarian profile in 2015, Father Richard C. Kasznel described the blessing of spending nearly three decades as pastor at Immaculate Conception Parish in St. Mary — population 360, about 75 miles south of St. Louis and just west of the old Mississippi River channel and Illinois' Kaskaskia Island.

Father Kasznel called it "a marvelous thing to be a pastor in a place almost 30 years and see children that I've baptized become adults and get married. I've seen them from the...

The schoolyard bell, its distinguishing mark — a two-inch crack at its base — and the story behind it might have been lost to history, leaving it as just a relic from a bygone era similar to any school bell at a flea market or antique store near you.

But then, Leona Scharfenberg stepped forward with the unique and interesting backstory.

In celebration of her 95th birthday, Scharfenberg returned the bell to her alma mater, St. John the Baptist (Gildehaus) School in Villa Ridge,...

With two sessions to date and three upcoming, the Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri already has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from its seminars, "The Conversation: A Catholic Perspective on End-of-Life Issues."

"We are encouraged by the strong attendance and the positive feedback of the attendees," said Mark Guyol, the Roman Catholic Foundation president/CEO. "Catholics have a high level of interest in learning about these end-of-life topics. Priests are...