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Ian McKellen, who starred alongside Patrick Stewart in the X-Men films, paid an emotional tribute to his longtime friend and co-star Thursday, reflecting on their decadeslong friendship and shared love…

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Restaurants have faced fierce headwinds this decade, but conversations with the owners of several St. Louis restaurant chains reveal a more nuanced reality than this year’s closures might suggest — and maybe even some cautious optimism.

The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens voted Democratic for president by a wide margin in 2020, […]

The upcoming special exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum explores the myriad ways that different cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, […]

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FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS - A man carrying a large knife was fatally shot by Fairview Heights police officers responding to a domestic disturbance early Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in the 9100 block of Bunkum Road, according to a statement from Police Chief Steve Johnson. Fairview Heights Police said the man ran toward three officers and refused commands to stop and drop the knife before officers fired, striking him several times. MECOMM received a 911 call about the disturbance at 1:30 a.m. Friday

No one else was injured in the shooting about 9 p.m.

Polling Place at Machacek Library Moves Across the Street to Storyline Church for November 3 General Election.

Katharine Eckert says she caught the 11-foot-4-inch fish in the Fraser River while on vacation.

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - An officer shot and killed a man Friday morning while responding to a domestic disturbance in Fairview Heights. According to the Fairview Heights Police Department, the shooting occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 9100 block of Bunkum Road. Officers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a man [...]

Homicide Detectives are investigating a shooting that left a man dead on October 29, 2026 in the Peabody-Darst-Webbe neighborhood.

The post Homicide Investigating Shooting in Peabody-Darst-Webbe appeared first on St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

“I’ve been on this council well past 10 years and I’ve never seen one of these questioned before like this. Never."

Fairview Heights police Chief Steve Johnson said the shooting was around 1:30 a.m. Friday in the 9100 block of Bunkum Road.

As Missouri voters prepare to decide whether to reinstate the state’s abortion ban, the final arguments over Amendment 3 are reaching beyond abortion itself. The campaigns are linking the measure to other questions on Tuesday’s ballot and framing the election as a fight over who holds power in Missouri — voters, politicians or wealthy outside […]

"Witness," featuring a woman with hair braided in spirals like a ram's horn, was installed Thursday at Rung for Women, a career development nonprofit in St. Louis' Fox Park Neighborhood.