Ballwin & Ellisville Week In Review: May 5—12

Get caught up with all the latest news around Ballwin and Ellisville in one quick glance. Have an opinion on what went down? Be sure to tell us in the comments section below.

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A woman, 37-year-old Amy Freeman Burton and her 13 year-old daughter, Ainsley Freeman, a graduate of in Ballwin, were in their California home, police said.

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Residents unhappy with the Ellisville City Council's decision to approve a Walmart project that uses tax incentives for the project's developer met Tuesday to discuss possible roadblocks to getting select city officials recalled.

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U.S. News and World Report named two Ballwin-area high schools as among the best in Missouri. The rankings were based on a variety of factors, including standardized test scores.

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Fred Kamp, store manager of Kmart in Ellisville, said this week that he understood the need for competition with the recently green-lighted Walmart project, but opposed the council's decision to create a TIF district for its developer.

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KMOV reported this weekend that state department of social services in investigating an incident where staff at outside Ballwin may have been responsible for an incident where a child was shaken. The incident was reported through the state's child abuse and neglect hotline, the TV station said.