🌱 Arch Robbery + Failed CVS Hold Up + 9/11 Memorial

Get on up, St. Louis! Let's get you started this Friday with everything you need to know going on around St. Louis today.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy, a shower and t-storm. High: 65 Low: 44.

Here are the top stories in St. Louis today:

1. For the second time in just over a month, St. Louis police are investigating an armed robbery on the grounds of the Gateway Arch downtown. Police say a man and a woman both in their 50s were walking on the grounds at 100 Washington Avenue Wednesday night at 7:40 when a suspect pointed a gun and demanded a wallet. Police say the suspect hit the man with the gun before the victim gave up his wallet. (KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis)
2. A St. Louis CVS employee scared off a man after he tried to rob the store and threatened to pull a gun. The employee asked the man to leave while he was filling a trash bag with store items. When he reached for his waistband, the employee pulled out his own gun. The man dropped the trash bag and ran out of the store, in the 3900 block of Lindell Boulevard. Police say the event took place around 2:47 a.m. (KMOV.com)
3. T-Rex’s GeoSeed Grant Program awards $20,000 to five geospatial intelligence initiatives in St. Louis. (St. Louis Public Radio)
4. St. Louis police released a surveillance photo of a man suspected of punching woman during a robbery. (KMOV.com)
5. Real estate broker Rick Randall leads St. Louis efforts to remember 9/11 sacrifices with Flags of Valor display. (St. Louis Business Journal)

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— Helen Eckhard

About me: Helen Eckhard is a marketing assistant at Lightning Media Partners. She is a self-professed logophile who is currently pursuing her master’s degree in library science. Outside of work, you can find Helen constructing crossword puzzles, knitting, or devising increasingly crafty ways to kill off characters in her mystery novels.