Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
St. Louis 2020 murder rate hits 50-year high, police chief points to coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest
foxnews.comThe murder rate in St. Louis, Mo. for all of 2020 was higher than it’s been in roughly five decades, falling just short of the city's all-time record, according to local reports.
St. Louis' Metropolitan Police Department reported 262 people murdered in 2020 — just five fewer than the record of 267, which was set in 1993.
However, city data show the homicide rate was higher in 2020 because the city’s population has declined from more than 395,000 in 1990 to approximately 348,000 in 2000 and 319,000 in 2010.
The city's homicide rate, however, reached 87 murders per 100,000 residents for the year — the highest rate on record since 1970, the St.
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