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Expect DWI Checkpoints in August, Police Warn
The Missouri State Highway Patrol and St. Louis County Police are warning drivers of sobriety checkpoints planned in August.

Gabrielle Biondo is the Local Editor for the Town and Country - Manchester Patch website. She's also a St. Louis native with more than a decade of news experience. Immediately out of college she worked in advertising and marketing in St. Louis. Her passion for news then took her to Central Illinois and Idaho before she made it back to her hometown in 2006. Biondo began her news career by moving across the country to take a broadcasting job with the NBC affiliate in Pocatello, Idaho in 2000 where she was a news anchor and reporter. In 2002, Biondo returned to the Midwest, taking a position with the ABC/NBC affiliate in central Illinois. There she was a reporter and news anchor where she created, produced and anchored a daily morning and noon newscast. In 2006 Biondo returned to St. Louis as an online news producer, on-air reporter and part-time anchor for KPLR News. She continued her online news producing as the Senior Online News Editor for St. Louis' Globe-Democrat.com where she helped build the company newsroom and website. She joined Patch.com in September 2010 and is excited about the concept of hyper-local news. She's thrilled to be working where she lived as a child and is eager to meet and work with the people who make Town and Country and Manchester two very unique and amazing communities.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol and St. Louis County Police are warning drivers of sobriety checkpoints planned in August.

This weekend is Missouri's tax free shopping weekend for buying school supplies, clothing or electronics as the kids head back to school. Here's what you need to know if you live in or around Creve Coeur.
Misadventures in crime including a man hitting a police horse, an illegally obtained male enhancement drug and a father-son theft outing.
Students from the sister school of Frontenac's Villa Duchesne traveled from Japan to visit the West County campus. Here are some highlights.
Have you ever taken your pet to the Olivette dog park? It's open all year long, so if you need a place for your best friend to run, here is some info.
The women's lacrosse team, made up of the top talent in high schools around Missouri, was formed to highlight Missouri high school talent to college coaches each summer.
Ballwin police are investigating recent theft reports from the gym, plus more than $1,400 in guitars and other musical equipment stolen from a storage locker.
The performance-based music education program opens Aug. 1 in Winchester Plaza and is holding numerous events to show what the music school has to offer.
The first one opens this week, but the dueling developments of St. Louis Premium Outlets and Taubman Prestige Outlets have largely declined to address their competition head-on.
All that is coming this week, plus Patch has contacted Family Dollar to find the latest on what's happening with the new store.
All that is coming this week, plus Patch has a warning from police on home repair scams.
At a meeting earlier this month, Rockwood School Board President Bill Brown thanked the club for putting in the “seat equity and elbow grease."
Drug charges, forgery and flying rocks top recent police calls made to the Glendale Police Department.
Plus, Ladue police report another stop landed a man in custody on fugitive charges.
The first one opens this week, but the dueling developments of St. Louis Premium Outlets and Taubman Prestige Outlets have largely declined to address their competition head-on.
The first one opens this week, but the dueling developments of St. Louis Premium Outlets and Taubman Prestige Outlets have largely declined to address their competition head-on.
The first one opens this week, but the dueling developments of St. Louis Premium Outlets and Taubman Prestige Outlets have largely declined to address their competition head-on.
The outlet mall is located on the east end of Chesterfield Valley on the north side of I-64 at the Boone's Crossing. A second outlet mall, St. Louis Premium Outlets, is opening Aug. 22.
Plus, Manchester police arrested four people in connection to property damage at another area pool.