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Today's Weather: Cold and Clear with a Cold Weather Advisory

17 hours 3 minutes ago
This morning starts off very cold with clear skies and a low near 12 degrees. A cold weather advisory is in effect until 10 a.m. due to dangerously cold wind chills that could drop to 15 below zero. Winds from the WNW at 15 mph with gusts up to 29 mph add to the chill, making it feel bitterly cold. By afternoon, expect mostly sunny skies and frigid temperatures peaking at a high of 20 degrees. The brisk wind continues, with gusts keeping it feeling colder than the thermometer shows. This evening

Why Winter Silence Feels Different Than Summer Quiet

17 hours 6 minutes ago
Silence isn’t just the absence of sound. It has a texture—and sometimes it feels so thick you can almost lean on it. That’s why a quiet street can feel completely different depending on what’s happening in the world around it. One kind of quiet feels open and relaxed, like a pause between conversations. Another feels sealed shut, like the world has pulled a blanket over itself. The difference isn’t only in your head. It comes from how sound moves, what the landscape

This Day in History on January 19: Edgar Allan Poe Born

17 hours 13 minutes ago
On January 19, 1915, the world saw the first large-scale aerial bombing raid on Britain when German Zeppelin airships attacked towns on England’s east coast. Air raids were not entirely new, but this moment showed how quickly war was expanding beyond battlefields and into everyday civilian life. At the time, it forced governments and ordinary people to confront a new kind of danger: attacks arriving from the sky with little warning. It still matters today because it marked an early turning

Frigid temperatures and gusty winds Monday, temps moderate by Tuesday afternoon

18 hours 6 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS -- A Cold Weather Advisory remains in place to our east and northeast. It does not include St. Louis city or county. Gusty northwesterly winds continue through the morning hours. Wind chills will be subzero in many areas come daybreak. Despite a bright day, temperatures don't make it very far into the 20s [...]
Jaime Travers

Abortion safety takes center stage as Missouri trial enters second week

19 hours 8 minutes ago
KANSAS CITY — Roughly 1% of the more than 53,000 Missourians who received abortions over the last 10 years in Illinois and Kansas experienced complications, ranging from infection to incomplete abortions to hemorrhaging.  Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office are dissecting dozens of Missouri’s Targeted Regulation of Abortion, or TRAP laws, […]
Anna Spoerre, Kevin Hardy

Missouri court cases vanish from public view through ‘security level’ system

19 hours 14 minutes ago
A Missouri House candidate’s history of domestic violence. A Highway Patrol trooper’s sexual abuse of a fellow officer at a work conference. A lawsuit between prominent St. Louis attorneys. All of these cases were removed from Missouri’s public court database. Searching for them online, it appeared as if they never existed. Cases assigned a high […]
Finnegan Belleau, Nathan Lee

Could this be the last year we commemorate MLK Day as a federal holiday?

19 hours 19 minutes ago
If left up to the Trump administration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day would likely be nullified as a federal holiday. Trump used his executive powers to change the observance of MLK Day by cancelling it as a free-admission day for those who wish to visit our national parks during federal holidays. The order also applies […]
Janice Ellis