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Laerke, a 5-year-old polar from Tacoma, Washington, will soon join Kallu in the McDonnell Polar Bear Point.

The Saint Louis Zoo will welcome a new polar bear, a 5-year-old female named Laerke, to its grounds later this fall.

The Saint Louis Science Center will host a free prehistoric life show on October 17 featuring a fossil road show and a dinosaur trading post.

On Oct. 15, 1957, Elvis Presley released a Christmas album that brought his blues, gospel and rock ’n’ roll influences into the holiday season. “Elvis’ Christmas Album” put a young star’s distinctive musical identity into a familiar setting, helping establish a seasonal recording that would endure long beyond its original release. It leads an Oct. 15 music history that also includes a Motown landmark, one of country music’s most recognizable songs, a

On October 15, 1582, people in several European countries began using the Gregorian calendar—the system now used for most international business, travel, and public affairs. In the places adopting the reform, October 4 was followed immediately by October 15. The change corrected a growing mismatch between the calendar and the seasons, which also affected the calculation of Easter. Adoption took centuries, but the reform eventually gave much of the world a shared way to record dates and

A pension system can outsource almost anything. It can hire managers, pay for expensive advice, and delegate the administrative work of voting the shares it owns. But it cannot delegate its responsibility to know how those shares were voted.

Hilary Swank is going to be a mom of three.The Oscar-winning actress, 52, announced Wednesday that she is expecting her third child with husband Philip Schneider.Swank shared the news in…

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A lawsuit claiming more than a dozen men spent 11 days locked in a sewage-soaked holding cell will move forward after a judge called the allegations "nothing short of horrifying."

ST. LOUIS - A portion of Interstate 44 was reopened Thursday morning after a crash shut down all lanes near Eureka. According to the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), the crash occurred around 7 a.m. on westbound I-44 near Lewis Road. It involved a semitruck. Details on the crash are unknown. During the closure, vehicles [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding California not count ballots from voters it says are suspected noncitizens, a move by the Trump administration to apply last-minute pressure as voting begins in the midterm elections. The Justice Department on Tuesday gave California election officials 48 hours to remove voters on a list contained on a […]

Just don't expect the state to write a single check from that endowment anytime soon.

The teaser trailer for the fourth and final season of Yellowjackets has arrived. It premieres to Paramount+ Premium on Nov. 20. The show follows a girls team of high school…

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