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A Christmas Carol, like the Nutcracker, is a Christmas standard, and The Rep has brought back its production from last year, with all of the concomitant thrills and delights. The show is just as sure to get you into the Christmas spirit as wearing an ugly sweater while drinking eggnog under mistletoe: that’s how Christmas-y it is.

An argument at a Taco Bell in Arnold in the early hours of Sunday morning escalated into a gun fight between a customer and an employee of the fast food restaurant. Both men are still currently at an area hospital recovering from injuries that police described as not life-threatening, Leader Publications reports. The incident happened about 2:30 a.m.

As the St. Louis region at large fans itself with $100 bills from the enormous stack of settlement cash we recently took out of Stan Kroenke's pocket, the toupee-wearing Rams owner's bucket of woes continues to fill up in exactly the same manner as seats at his team's game do not. The latest delicious bit of schadenfreude in the ongoing saga of St. Louis hating on Kroenke's goofy ass while blissfully rolling around in his money comes via NBC Sports, which reported this week that the Rams are struggling so badly to get people out to games this season that they've begun concocting a cockamamie charity scheme just to fill seats.

Inside the Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis, there are thousands of tiny worlds. Dollhouses with families.

If you prefer your holiday cheer to be one part Christmas festive and one part Tron futurism, you're in luck — World of Illumination's Cosmic Sleighride has you covered. Billed as a "supersonic holiday road trip," the light show deftly mashes up the sci-fi with the Santa, promising a "mystical holiday invasion" that will see you traveling in your own car through Kris Kingle's celestial portal in the stars. You'll see astro elves riding hoverboards, toys being prepared for Christmas and the exciting world of Santa City, where all the magic happens.

A St. Louis County man was sentenced to 25 years in prison today for a retaliatory drug murder committed in a McDonald's parking lot two years ago. Cevone Weeden, now 26, fired 12 shots at Joel Phillips, 22, killing him on August 20, 2020. The murder took place outside of the McDonald's at 1420 Hampton Avenue in the Clayton-Tamm neighborhood.

A new study is providing what researchers call an "unprecedented" look at the opaque plea-bargaining process both in courthouses in St. Louis County and elsewhere. Plea bargains are the process by which prosecutors and defense attorneys negotiate and reach an outcome for a defendant in a criminal case.

Editor's Note: Garrett and Stacy Enloe love music and actually met at a concert at the now-shuttered American Theater (they were seeing Jackyl). Marriage followed in 2000, and then in 2016, they won a piece of St. Louis music history: a portion of the Mississippi Nights awning.

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its inaugural series, Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County's use of the death penalty. A Missouri inmate who fought his death sentence up until the final hour of his life was executed by the Missouri Department of Corrections today.

A new study confirms everything that everyone who's ever driven in Missouri could tell you: It's not safe out there on these streets. In fact, according to data crunched by Forbes, Missouri is the fourth most dangerous state in the whole country for drivers, behind only Montana, South Carolina and Wyoming. Missouri saw 881 people killed on its roadways in 2019 and 987 in 2020, leading to a per capita fatality rate among the highest in the U.S., even as national fatalities soared.

After months of agonizing, the wait is finally over. We now know where the St. Louis Savage X Fenty store will be located. And the answer is ...

The weather in the Midwest has been wild as hell lately, and it seems like that won’t stop soon. After setting record-high temperatures in St. Louis just a few weeks ago, we were just about to feel settled into chilly winter weather until today when the temperature could hit as high as 62 degrees again.

There will be quite the spectacle to be witnessed tomorrow outside the Moolah Shrine Center in west county, courtesy of PETA. The animal rights organization has stated that fez-hat-wearing "circus performers" will chain up and then beat "giant inflatable crying elephants" outside the Shiners building near Maryland Heights. PETA is protesting Moolah Shrine Circus, which a statement from PETA says is "among the last remaining shows that still use wild animals who are confined to small crates, kept in shackles, and deprived of any semblance of a natural life."

A clear blue sky frames two men. One sits, leaning slightly forward on a concrete wall. Across from him another man stands, tilted at the waist, with his forearms leaning against a railing.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 422 fake Super Bowl Champion rings in St. Louis earlier this month. The rings, captured at a St. Louis express consignment operations hub, arrived in the United States from China, authorities said in a press release on Monday. The shipment was traveling to a residence in Jerseyville, Illinois.

Federal authorities have accused a St. Louis woman of money laundering, wire fraud and conspiracy for her role in allegedly fraudulently attaining a $291,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan. According to a federal indictment, on March 29, 2020, only four days after the passage of the CARES Act economic relief package, 44-year-old Jeannine Buford texted a friend, "I'm tired of struggling it's time to put the ski mask on.

It seems like the entire internet wants a goth girlfriend lately. And who wouldn’t? They’re pretty. They're creative.

If you're looking for love here, look somewhere else. A study by real estate website porch.com ranked 55 large metro areas from best to worst places to fall in love. St. Louis ranked 45th.

Jordan Goodman will never forget the moment he fell in love with cutting ice. He was working at Narwhal's Crafted — his first bartending gig — and was asked one day to hand cut about 20 cubes for the week's service. It was a small operation, nothing more than an Igloo cooler, a rectangle of ice and a low-tech chiseling device.

Kevin Johnson, who is on death row for the murder of Kirkwood police officer William McEntee, will be executed tomorrow as planned. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Monday not to delay the execution. The court’s majority decision comes just hours after a last-ditch effort to save Johnson’s life.