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The St. Louis Table Tennis Club has been around since 1987. It now boasts nearly 140 members of all ages, from 9 to 90, and all levels of experience.

The urge to get cozy isn’t just a preference—it’s a quiet survival instinct wearing a soft sweater. When temperatures drop and daylight shrinks, many people notice the same shift: they crave warm drinks, heavier meals, familiar shows, thicker blankets, and time with people they trust. It can feel like “just a mood,” but there are real reasons behind it. Comfort-seeking during cold months is a mix of biology, psychology, and culture. And once you see the pattern,

The hardest part of meeting someone new usually isn’t what you say—it’s the first ten seconds before anyone says anything at all. That tense pause is exactly what the phrase “breaking the ice” is built for. It describes the moment when a conversation shifts from stiff and uncertain to easier and more human. We use it at job interviews, first dates, team meetings, and awkward family gatherings. But the expression didn’t start as a cute way to talk about small

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On February 24, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII announced a new calendar system that would soon reshape how much of the world measured time. The change, now known as the Gregorian calendar reform, aimed to fix a slow drift in the older Julian calendar that was throwing off the timing of seasons and religious observances, especially the date of Easter. At the time, this mattered because agriculture, navigation, and public life depended on reliable seasonal timing, and churches needed a consistent way

TROY - Triad Community Unit School District #2 recently broke ground on a construction project at Triad High School to add a performing arts center, additional classrooms, and renovated career and technical education spaces. The project includes construction of the Triad Center for the Performing Arts, which Triad Community Unit School District Superintendent Jason Henderson said will “elevate our music, theater, and performance programs to the level our students deserve and will serve

Participants will gather at Creve Coeur Lake on February 28th for the 2026 Maryland Heights Polar Plunge, a movie-themed fundraiser hosted by the Hazelwood and Maryland Heights Police Departments to raise money for Special Olympics Missouri athletes.

Planning for the $600 million renovation has been underway for a decade

President Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term Tuesday night, with tight security around the Capitol complex and a potential war with Iran, a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, and a recent Supreme Court decision among the challenges he faces.

We’ve noted repeatedly how Trump wants to scuttle Netflix’s proposed merger with Warner Brothers because his friend and key donor, billionaire Larry Ellison wants to buy Warner Brothers (and CNN) instead. In fact the two have already purportedly met to discuss which CNN anchors they’d like to fire once Larry (who just bought CBS and […]

Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]

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The Missouri House of Representatives passed HB 2061, a law banning most speech critical of Israel in Missouri's public schools. It is now headed to the state Senate.

EAST ALTON — Firefighters battled a large overnight blaze that broke out around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Wilshire Village strip mall in the 600 block of Berkshire Boulevard. The East Alton Fire Department responded to the scene and was assisted by multiple surrounding departments as crews worked to contain heavy flames that tore through a Chinese restaurant and several vacant storefronts. Fire officials said a Dollar General located in the strip mall sustained smoke and water damage

Pattonville High School will honor HaLayna Elliott, a student at the school, and her father, Henry Williams, who were killed in a shooting in Ferguson, with a tribute during the school's Girl's Varsity Basketball Team game on Tuesday.

It had to happen someday. An internet video shows hacks that are worth trying.

Four Republican candidates have thrown their hats in the ring to challenge two-term Governor JB Pritzker in November. They face an uphill battle against a billionaire Democrat in a state that has shifted more and more blue over the past decade.