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More International Flights to St. Louis?

Traveling in and out of St. Louis usually is not too difficult when it comes to flying. If you’re looking to fly internationally, usually Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York come to mind. Well now St. Louis is working to attract international flights, and is competing with Cincinnati for British Airways’ next U.S. market.

Other cities will likely be competing for the same flights, and Hamm-Niebruegge estimated a package of between $3 million and $5 million would be competitive. Airline industry publication Anna.Aero reported in December that St. Louis may be contending with Cincinnati for British Airways’ next U.S. market.

Lambert would require an airline to commit to two years of service before offering the incentive package, she said. The hope is the subsidy would let the route become established enough to stand on its own in a smaller market.

Though some airlines have left other smaller markets after the subsidies run out, she said international routes stayed in Austin, Texas and in Nashville. Those are smaller metro areas than St. Louis, but they have exceeded St. Louis in airport passengers after adding international flights in recent years, Hamm-Niebruegge said. They are also much faster-growing regions and both snagged routes St. Louis was trying to win.

About 300 people a day on average fly to Europe from St. Louis, with the largest proportion going to London, Hamm-Niebruegge said. St. Louis also tends to have more business travelers, which are airlines’ “bread and butter.”

“I have no doubt we will make a legacy international carrier successful in this market,” Hamm-Niebruegge said.

The Port Authority had previously committed to the $1.5 million in assistance as part of an effort to establish an international route. It committed another $600,000 for the short-lived Wow Air route. Neither of the subsidies were paid. Airport officials wanted to make sure the new Port Authority board, now made up of completely new members, still supported the effort.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/port-authority-moves-again-to-attract-international-flights-to-st/article_595a5793-b3cd-5553-b5cc-f2e297ec330b.html

Soybeans Holding Up Traffic In St. Louis

Nobody likes to sit in traffic, and if anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying. There are a million reasons for traffic to cramp your day, and usually none of them are good. But what if you had a reason to laugh about the traffic in St. Louis, just one time? Well today is your lucky day, as a soybean spill is causing the traffic out there.

UPDATED at 10:45 a.m. Friday with the opening of one eastbound lane.

ST. LOUIS — A tractor-trailer hauling soybeans toppled on eastbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) in St. Louis on Friday morning, leaving a mix of beans and diesel fuel spread across the road. 

The crash occurred shortly after 6 a.m. just west of Market Street. Eastbound lanes were closed at the crash site and eastbound traffic was diverted onto Vandeventer Avenue for about four hours.

One eastbound lane was reopened about 10 a.m., but two lanes remained closed, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

To check updates on road closures, go to this site.

Police initially reported it as an injury crash, but arriving EMS crews said no one had been hurt.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/somebody-spilled-the-beans-soybeans-stop-some-traffic-on-highway/article_1b76deed-79cb-5751-b5ce-1a043dab2044.html

Police Only Responding to Certain Crimes?

St. Louis has crime like any other city, and most citizens usually feel safe with the knowledge that police will respond in the event of a crime being committed. Well that is not always the case with St. Louis city police, where they are not actually required to respond to certain crimes that are committed.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — You spend thousands on your car and if it’s broken into or stolen, you expect police to respond. News 4 has learned there are several crimes, including auto theft, where police are not required to dispatch an officer.

News 4 began investigating after receiving multiple complaints from people, including Nate Schwartze, saying police were taking a long time to respond or not responding at all. 

He said he and his wife parked their truck in Soulard on January 31st around 7 p.m. for a date night. When the couple returned to their truck about an hour and a half later, they discovered their vehicle and the car parked next to theirs were broken into. 

Schwartze said he called police at 8:26 p.m. and asked for an officer to respond. 

“She said you know we don’t send officers, somebody will call you back” said Schwartze. “I said are you serious? I think I said are you serious a couple of times because frankly I just could not believe that I was calling about an actual crime and they weren’t going to send officers.”

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department categorizes its calls as part of its ‘call reduction initiative.’ Through this initiative, dispatchers can take what is considered a low priority crime report over the telephone without ever sending an officer. Those crimes include destruction of property, stealing, auto theft and stolen guns. 

“I honestly thought it was a joke at first,” said Schwartze. 

St. Louis city’s Director of Public Safety, Jimmie Edwards, said this policy is helping prioritize the police department’s resources. 

“It’s not necessarily tied to a lack of or a shortage of policing. That is a fact a problem for us in the city of St. Louis, but it’s certainly it’s not a problem of us responding,” said Edwards. 

Edwards told News 4 even if the department was fully staffed, the policy on prioritizing calls would likely not change. 

“No matter how fully staffed we are, we are probably getting more calls than we have police officers,” said Edwards. 

If a car break-in was happening at that moment, an officer would be dispatched, according to Edwards. He said he expects officers to respond to all crimes, even low priority, when there is time. 

“It’s easy for our officers to be criticized but I can tell you every single day they put on that uniform or they are under cover, they go out in the city of St. Louis to keep us safe and I think they do a relatively good job,” said Edwards. 

News 4 asked what warrants an officer to be dispatched to a scene. Edwards said calls are grouped into three categories: priority one, two, and three. 

Priority one calls include homicides and rapes and typically get a response in around six minutes. Priority two also dispatches an officer. Those are crimes in progress, like a car break-in. Response time is around 12 minutes. Priority three are crimes that have already happened and there is not evidence to collect at the scene, which includes a car break-in. Police do not track response time for these types of calls, according to Edwards. 

According to police, an officer arrived to Soulard about an hour and a half after Schwartze called 911. He said he had to leave to go pick up his daughter and assumed they weren’t coming. 

He worries if police don’t respond to these crimes, there won’t be a deterrent for other criminals. 

“These are the sorts of things that police kind of exist to help with,” said Schwartze. “This is why as a taxpayer you think that the police are there.”

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Source: https://www.kmov.com/news/st-louis-city-police-only-expected-to-send-an-officer/article_b0019522-52c1-11ea-9566-1bc250f62791.html

Medical Dispensaries Coming To St. Louis

Marijuana dispensaries are seemingly taking over the country as a whole, with marijuana slowly becoming more and more legal in each state. Missouri is no different, with the business booming more than every, and new shops popping up all the time. Here’s all of dispensaries coming soon to the St. Louis area.

-VMO-Ops: 3420 Iowa Avenue, St. Louis

-BeLeaf Medical: 6036 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis

-GF Wellness S. Grand: 3737 S. Grand Boulevard, St. Louis

-CoMo Health: 11088 New Halls Ferry Road, Florissant

-FP4-Broadway: 8542 N. Broadway, St. Louis

-Agri-Genesis: 6407 Michigan Avenue, St. Louis

-BeLeaf Medical: 2734 Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis

-FP2-Natural Bridge: 4451 Brown Road, Berkeley

-Heya St. Ann Retail II: 10417 St. Charles Rock Road, St. Ann

-TCAppliCO: 3230 Parker Road, Florissant

-V3 Mo Vending 2: 7766 N. Lindbergh Boulevard, Hazelwood

-CoMo Health: 5501 Chippewa Street, St. Louis

-6662 Delmar SL: 6662 Delmar Blvd. Suite A, University City

-BeLeaf Medical: 1315 Cherokee Street, St. Louis

-GF Wellness Franz Park: 6660 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis

-Holistic Missouri: 20 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis

-Growing Jobs Missouri: 5870 Martin Luther King Drive, St. Louis

-VMO-Ops: 2001 Olive Street, St. Louis

-Occidental Group: 7555 Olive Boulevard, University City

-FP1-S Florissant: 517 S. Florissant Road, Ferguson

-Growing Jobs Missouri: 2732 Cherokee Street, St. Louis

-Robust Missouri Dispensary 3: 444 Howdershell Road, Florissant

-Jais: 10812 Saint Charles Rock Road, St. Ann

-Growing Jobs Missouri: 1463 S. Vandeventer Avenue, St. Louis

-Bloom Medicinals of MO: Phoenix Parkway & Technology Drive, O’Fallon

-Nirvana Bliss V: 15396-15398 Manchester Road, Ellisville

-TC AppliCo: 3739 S. Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis

-BeLeaf Medical: 16075 Manchester Road, Ellisville

-Nirvana Bliss II: 1266 Old Orchard Center, Ballwin

-TC AppliCo: 453 N. Lindbergh Boulevard, Creve Coeur

-TC AppliCo: 76 Hilltop Village Center Drive, Eureka

-JG Missouri: 2093 Smizer Station Road, Valley Park

-Growing Jobs Missouri: 15654 Manchester Road, Ellisville

-Captiva Healing: 9933 Watson Road, St. Louis

-Nature’s Med MO: 234 Kingston Drive, St. Louis

-GF Wellness St. Peters: 3004 S. Saint Peters Parkway , St. Peters

-QPS Missouri Holdings: 1416 Harvestowne Industrial Drive, St. Charles

-QPS Missouri Holdings: 10425 Watson Road, St. Louis

-New Growth Horizon: 7417 S. Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis

-JG Missouri: 914 S. Brentwood Boulevard, Clayton

-V3 MO Vending 7: 11062 Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur

-Organic Remedies MO: 354 Skinker Lane, Fenton

-CoMo Health: 839 Meramec Station Road, Valley Park

-VG S. Lindbergh: 5511 S. Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis

-Missouri Wild Apothecary: 1120 Technology Drive, O’Fallon

-BBMO 1: 17409 Chesterfield Airport Road, Chesterfield

-Grassroots OpCo MO: 15230 Manchester Road, Ballwin

-LSL Management: 180 Gravois Bluffs Circle, Fenton

-Nirvana Bliss I: 2285 U.S. Highway 67 South, Festus

-Occidental Group: 1168 W. Gannon Drive, Festus

-North Medical Group: 929 Peachtree Plaza Drive, Hillsboro

-Missouri Health & Wellness: 10 Franklin Avenue, Washington

-BeLeaf Medical: 104 Hospital Drive, St. Peters

-Blue Sky Health & Wellness: 1197 Bryan Road, O’Fallon

-GRD Troy: 109 N. Lincoln Drive, Troy

-V3 MO Vending 1: 1172 W. Terra Lane, O’Fallon

-New Growth Horizon: 711 N. State Highway 47, Warrenton

-LSL Management: 3899 Veterans Memorial Parkway, St. Peters

-Mint MO 4: 150 Mid Rivers Mall Circle, St. Peters

-North Medical Group: 1709 State Highway Z, Pevely

-Heya St. Charles Retail II: 4300 N. Service Road, St. Peters

-Harvest of Missouri: 859 Robert Raymond Drive, Lake St Louis

-VG Imperial: 1229 Main Street, Imperial

-Missouri Wild Apothecary: 2173 W. Terra Lane, O’Fallon

-GF Wright City: 14980 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Wright City

-LSA314 (ST CLR): 1909 N. Service Road E, St. Clair

-Green Gryphon: 6 Dell Centre Way Union Way, Union

-Columbia Care MO: 1380 High Street, Washington

Source: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2020/01/27/here-are-the-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-coming-soon-to-st-louis

Unions Are Growing In Missouri

Although Missouri is seen as anti-union, unions have been steadily getting bigger and growing in the great state. The unionization rate in Missouri was higher than the national rate for the first time in 17 years, which goes to show they are only going to keep growing and people like the idea more than ever.

Missouri unions also added 25,000 members in 2018, and the two-year winning streak gave the state a higher unionization rate than the nation for the first time since 2003. Nationally, 10.3% of workers were union members last year, down from 10.5% the year before.

The latest numbers put Jake Hummel, secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO, in an upbeat mood. “I certainly hope they’re sustainable,” he said. “We’ve seen an uptick in organizing in recent years.”

Recent organizing victories, Hummel said, resulted in about 300 cafeteria workers at St. Louis University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Webster University joining the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, and brought 75 employees at Virbac, a pet products manufacturer in Bridgeton, into the Teamsters.

The membership numbers also got a boost from job growth. Missouri’s construction industry, which is heavily unionized, grew by 4,000 jobs last year. While overall manufacturing employment was flat, Boeing added 2,000 jobs and the state’s auto industry, including General Motors in Wentzville and Ford in Kansas City, is thriving.

Doug Swanson, who runs a labor studies program at UMSL, thinks unions’ higher profile is paying off. The right-to-work vote, he says, started a conversation that continues when construction unions send representatives to a high school career fair. Another good sign, he adds, was the strong public support last year in Wentzville for striking GM workers.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/david-nicklaus/nicklaus-unions-get-bigger-in-anti-union-missouri/article_38189092-5381-585d-b0be-defe49b35035.html

Do You Sled Art Hill?

Sledding is an amazing part of winter, and every year plenty of people head out to buy a sled or a tube, and go on over to Art Hill. What many people do not know though, is the history of Art Hill, and how it started 115 years ago to provide the fun that families for generations have continued to enjoy.

Before the fair, it was part of the park’s forest “wilderness” and wasn’t cleared of trees until 1902, during preparation for what formally was known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The hill was landscaped with wide lawns, staircases and water cascades. Crowning it was the round, ornate Festival Hall. Nearby was the Palace of Fine Art, now the Art Museum, the only structure from the fair built for permanent use.

After removal of the last stairs and former cascades by winter 1905-06, the widened hill became the unobstructed winter playground it remains today. It slopes downward at 8 degrees for a run of 430 feet to the basin’s edge. Ripples in the hillside make for hearty downhill bumps.

A standard sled could be had at a downtown department store for $1.50 in 1905 (about $38 today). Installation one year later of the big statue of St. Louis, a 13th century king of France and the city’s namesake, on the former site of Festival Hall, created an easy landmark for meeting friends. Bonfires provided relief.

Whenever enough snow falls for winter sport, Art Hill attracts the adventurous with sleds, toboggans, skis, saucers, even box board and pieces of plastic. Little has changed over the decades, other than the names of the sledders.

The city parks department maintains bonfires on the top of Art Hill. Rows of straw bales serve as a last-chance barrier to the basin.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/it-started-years-ago-today-a-history-of-sledding-on/article_aa64159b-fd82-586d-97f0-240113f4e1fa.html

No More Potholes!

Potholes are miserable part of driving, and many cities have to deal with them. They can ruin your car, the tires and wheels. Well if you are tired of slamming into these potholes on the daily, you can do something about it! You can always chat with the road crew to try to rectify the situation and get the city better!

The year took Magee to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. territories — ranging from the Caribbean to the opposite side of the international date line, and from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the equator.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/potholes-popping-up-chat-with-the-road-crew-at-p/article_5229997b-b20c-537c-b458-02c84a014146.html

Even Police Officers Need To Watch Social Media

We all know that what you post on social media can live forever, but that doesn’t mean everyone listens to this. The same holds true for police officers, and two St. Louis police officers have been fired for what they have posted on social media. 22 St. Louis City police officers have been put on an exclusion list.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Two St. Louis Metropolitan police officers have been fired over social media posts, their lawyer told News 4.

Officers Thomas Mabrey and Ronald Hasty are appealing their terminations to the Civil Service Commission.

A letter obtained by News 4 shows 22 St. Louis City police officers have been put on an “exclusion list” due to an investigation into allegations about social media posts.

“We look forward to vigorously defending both officers’ reputations and are confident their actual records as police officers, and not Facebook shares and likes posted as private citizens will ultimately rule the day,” their lawyer, Brian Millikan, said.

Facebook posts from Mabrey and Hasty were compiled by The Plain View Project which is a database of Facebook posts and comments from current and former police officers.

Earlier this year, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced they were investigating allegations that several current and former officers made racist, violent, homophobic, and anti-Muslim posts on Facebook.

In June, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office put together an “exclusion list” of 22 officers not allowed to testify in court. Of the 22, seven were permanently banned from presenting cases to the Circuit Attorney’s Office. We reached out to Gardner’s office to find out if these two officers were on the exclusion list. We have not heard back yet.

We’ve also reached out to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and are waiting to hear back.

Source: https://www.kmov.com/news/st-louis-police-officers-fired-over-social-media-posts-lawyer/article_f8281118-1aeb-11ea-a0ec-032bdd908686.html

Interesting Discovery Made In St. Louis

St. Louis has plenty of history, as a great city that has been around for a while. While discovering things throughout the city isn’t rare in and of itself, finding something that is nearly 140 years old is pretty neat! That is exactly what construction crews did while excavating a home, a 15 foot cistern.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Construction crews are working to fill in a 15-foot hole that was discovered underneath a home in Dogtown near Manchester. The hole is an old cistern believed to date back to the late 1880s. 

Cisterns have been around for centuries. They collect rain water, which is then used for drinking, bathing, washing clothes, and even flushing the toilet. 

“We didn’t really expect this to happen,” said Rick Schaper, who hired Hibbs Homes to build his family a new home on the property. 

Schaper said the home that once sat on the property could not be saved. 

Danni Eichenhorst with Hibbs Homes said crews also discovered an old mine shaft near the cistern. She said finding both on the same property is very rare. 

“A lot of the mines in this area are not documented very well and sometimes when you excavate a project here you’re likely to run into something,” said Eichenhorst. “Anytime we build in the historic St. Louis area we’re likely to run into a couple of issues.”

Schaper said he was more blown away by what was found inside the cistern. He discovered several bottles likely from the turn of the century. 

“A lot of them are apothecary bottles, medicine bottles,” said Schaper. “For these to survive being thrown down in a cistern years ago and then dug up by excavator you know that they were made a long time ago.”

Cisterns are more common than you might think. Two weeks ago, the Campbell House Museum downtown on Locust Street discovered two large cisterns while in the process of building a new education space and gift shop.

Missouri law requires homeowners to fill any cistern or well that is no longer in use. 

Source: https://www.kmov.com/news/rare-discovery-made-while-excavating-home-near-trendy-st-louis/article_a870c842-1af3-11ea-b7f5-fb9af3f9bf52.html

Mookie to St. Louis?

All of you  St. Louis Cardinals fans better watch out, Mookie might be heading our way!

Although the idea might be a pipe dream, the potential is there and is something you can all get behind! The Cardinals are on the potential list and this blockbuster trade could be coming our way! (Believe it or not!)

Is a trade to St. Louis in the cards for Mookie Betts? | News Headlines

In a recent piece for The Athletic, Jim Bowden did what many baseball fans and media do this time of year. He speculated about a blockbuster trade.

As the Red Sox look to potentially restructure their club and trim payroll this offseason under new Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom, outfielder Mookie Betts is rumored to be on the trade block. In his article, Bowden took a stab at naming three potential landing spots.

Along with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves, the St. Louis Cardinals were on the list.

On paper, the Cardinals would be a tremendous fit for the 27-year-old former American League MVP. Even with a rebound effort from Dexter Fowler, St. Louis still ranked in the bottom half of the league in production from its center fielders and right fielders this past season.

As a whole, the Cardinals offense ranked 21st in OPS and 19th in runs scored across MLB. The addition of Paul Goldschmidt helped St. Louis reach the postseason again, but it didn’t land its lineup among the more productive ones in the league. It’d be easy to argue that Mookie Betts would change that.

Betts followed up his 2018 MVP campaign with a .295/.391/.524 batting line in 2019, leading the major leagues in runs scored (135) for the second straight season. Defensively, he spent the majority of the year in right field, where he compiled an excellent plus-15 Defensive Runs Saved Above Average. One of the most talented position players in the sport, Betts would make an immediate impact wherever he lands.

Given his contract status, that’s pretty much what he’d need to do if he’s going to be worth the price the Red Sox are sure to ask in exchange for his services.

Betts is due to hit free agency following the 2020 season, which is the main reason the Red Sox would consider trading him in the first place (though they should probably just pay the man and build their future around him, instead). In his final year of salary arbitration, Betts could earn in the neighborhood of $28 million for the upcoming season. If Boston doesn’t believe it can afford Betts on a long-term extension, it’s possible they move him for younger, controllable talent this winter rather than pay him for one more season before seeing him walk as a free agent.

While it would stand to reason that the Red Sox would request a king’s ransom from teams trying to pry Betts away, Boston would also have to be realistic about its expectations given Betts’ status as a one-year rental. It’s the reason these kinds of trades are often so difficult to execute, unless the team with the expiring control of its star player is dead-set in its desire to move on.

That’s where the Cardinals matched up with the Arizona Diamondbacks on the Paul Goldschmidt trade last December. St. Louis had a glaring need for an impact bat, and Arizona wasn’t sure a high-dollar extension for its franchise face was best for the long-term health of the organization.

For Goldschmidt, the D-backs got a quality starting pitcher in Luke Weaver and a potential starting catcher in Carson Kelly. St. Louis had the luxury of depth at both positions and felt it worthwhile to cash in some of that depth for the type of proven commodity it sorely lacked. The Cardinals also had the payroll flexibility that the Diamondbacks felt they did not, and inked Goldschmidt to a five-year pact before he ever played a game for St. Louis. So far, it’s fair to say the trade has panned out reasonably well for both sides.

On the heels of that move one year ago, though, it’s hard to envision the Cardinals being willing to repeat the same trick when it comes to Betts.

Bowden speculated that the Cardinals would be unwilling to part with young talent like Jack Flaherty, Dakota Hudson, Dylan Carlson and Nolan Gorman, all of which makes sense given the team’s track record of protecting elite prospects and its public commentary on such matters. Flaherty and Hudson represent the present and future core of the starting rotation. Carlson should arrive in the big leagues at some point in 2020; Gorman is a touted former first-round pick still a few years away.

St. Louis’ reluctance to include any and all of these names for a possible rental makes perfect sense.

Instead, Bowden suggested the Cardinals could offer outfielder Randy Arozarena, catcher Andrew Knizner and 21-year-old infield prospect Elehuris Montero to entice the Red Sox into sending Betts to St. Louis. While it’s likely in general that the Cardinals would be more agreeable to parting with the players in this group, the Red Sox would similarly prefer the names in the aforementioned tier of untouchables. It’s that give-and-take conversation that could leave Boston looking elsewhere for a trade partner for an elite-caliber player like Betts.

And that’s all assuming the Cardinals would make a genuine effort to pursue Betts in the first place.

As mentioned previously, Betts’ fit for the Redbirds is obvious. But considering the money the Cardinals have already committed to Goldschmidt, Matt Carpenter, Miles Mikolas and Dexter Fowler, it seems unlikely they’d be looking to add a mega-contract, regardless of how well the player who signs it might fit within their roster.

The Cardinals felt comfortable with Goldschmidt as their grand expenditure last spring because of his age; the first baseman in his early thirties signed his extension for just five years. Like Bryce Harper last offseason, the younger Betts will likely seek a longer contract to take full advantage of his big chance to take a bite from the free-agent apple.

Not to mention, we’ve already heard hints from the team this offseason suggesting it’s not planning any drastic increases to the payroll.

“You know, our payroll this last year I think was sixth in Major League Baseball,” Cardinals chairman and majority owner Bill DeWitt Jr. said earlier this month at the team’s end-of-season press conference. “Our revenue was eleventh. And I think this coming year it will be similar category as it was last year, which is a pretty robust payroll given where we stand revenue-wise.”

Therein lies the catch-22 of a Mookie Betts pursuit by St. Louis. The Cardinals don’t like to trade young talent for superstar rentals unless they intend to pursue a long-term extension, as we’ve seen in the past with both Goldschmidt and Matt Holliday. And though there’s certainly an argument to be made that the Cardinals could afford to add Betts to their payroll, it seems like one to which team ownership would not be particularly receptive.

It’s fun to imagine what the Cardinals lineup might look like with Betts added near the top of it—and if there’s ever a time of year to do it, this is the one. Unfortunately, when you weigh everything it would take to get a deal done, the likelihood of the Cardinals doing it all is rather low.

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Beau Rothwell, the husband of missing St. Louis County woman Jennfier Rothwell, was charged Thursday night in connection with her disappearance.

Beau Rothwell, Jennifer Rothwell’s husband, has been charged with tampering with evidence.

STL County PD and Facebook

Beau Rothwell was charged with tampering with physical evidence Thursday. An additional charge of 2nd degree murder was filed Friday.  St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s office has not yet commented on what led to that murder charge.

A probable cause statement said he was caught on video buying cleaning products including bleach, carpet cleaner, and gloves on Nov. 11, the day before Jennifer Rothwell was reported missing. Two days later police obtained a search warrant for the Rothwell home where detectives found a wet carpet soaked with bleach and large areas of blood, police said.

Detectives used Jennifer’s parent’s DNA to compare it to the blood found in the house. That DNA was a match.

That search resulted in police transitioning the investigation from a missing persons case to a homicide investigation Thursday morning.

[WATCH: Missing West County woman’s case now a homicide as husband booked on murder charge, police say]

Meanwhile, the search for Jennifer continued late Thursday. Officers were seen searching a wooded area in between where Jennifer Rothwell’s car was found and where she lives. Police have put crime scene tape up at Ross Avenue and Sparrowwood Drive.

Police said Jennifer Rothwell, 28, was last seen Tuesday at her home. Her car, a Hyundai Sonata, was found near Olive and Fee Fee in Creve Coeur around 9:45 that night.

She has no history of running off and is normally in contact with family members and friends on a daily basis, police said, but she hasn’t reached out to anyone since leaving her home.

Rothwell’s family is offering a $25,000 reward for any information that leads to her whereabouts.

[WATCH: Mother of Jennifer Rothwell speaks to News 4 ahead of husband’s detainment]

Her mother, Robin von Hausen, said her daughter had just moved to West County with her husband. Rothwell works at DuPont as a chemical engineer.

“She works hard. People like her. She has a lot of friends at DuPont,” von Hausen said.

Her family said police found Rothwell’s cellphone in the car but her purse was gone.

Von Hausen said it was one of her DuPont co-workers who tipped them off that something might have happened.

“A coworker texted and said, ‘Hey, how is Jennifer?’ They assumed she just hadn’t come into work because of the weather or whatnot. So, it wasn’t until late 6 ,or so, in the evening before we even knew she hadn’t made it to work,” von Hausen said.

Beau Rothwell filed a police report Tuesday night and Wednesday posted to Facebook asking for help in the search.

According to Jennifer’s Facebook page, the couple was married in September of 2015.

Beau made his first court appearance Friday morning.

Anyone with information about Rothwell is asked to contact St. Louis County police or CrimeStoppers.

Beau Rothwell was charged in connection with his wife’s disappearance. (Credit: St. Louis County Police)

St. Louis County Police Department

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Source: www.kmov.com – November 14, 11:10 PM