Justice Department to offer update on Ferguson progress

In this Aug. 10, 2015, file photo, officers and protesters face off along West Florissant Ave. in Ferguson, Mo., a year after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old who was unarmed. Ferguson residents on Wednesday Nov. 15, 2017, will get an update from city leaders and officials with the Department of Justice concerning the consent agreement calling for major reforms in the St. Louis-area town where Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in 2014.

St. Louis eyeing the idea of leasing Lambert airport to private operator

The City of St. Louis is taking preliminary steps to explore the idea of privatizing St. Louis Lambert International Airport, according to a source. City leaders were in Washington, DC Wednesday where they filed a preliminary application with the Federal Aviation Administration, a document which essentially serves as a placeholder for St. Louis to begin the process of determining if privatization is in the city's best interest.

Photo Flash: New Line Theatre Presents CELEBRATION

New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre," opens its 26th season of adult, alternative musical theatre with the world premiere of a new revised version of the wild, 1969 adult jazz-rock musical CELEBRATION, by the creators of The Fantasticks , running Sept. 29-Oct. 22, in the company's new home, the Marcelle Theater, the new blackbox theatre in Grand Center, St. Louis' arts district.