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The shooting was in the 5000 block of Beacon Avenue, near Lillian Avenue, about 10:20 a.m. Friday.

Too many people who qualify for food stamps in Missouri can't get them. The problem could get worse soon.

Drink makers say they're targeting customers who don't want the calories, health effects or potential hangovers from drinking alcohol — but still want something special to drink socially.

The fee for a license lasting 3 years or less will rise from $6 to $9; the cost for a license lasting longer than 3 years goes from $12 to $18.

The new law will expand on efforts by the state’s education department to improve literacy in K-12 schools.

“Today we had an opportunity to take care of our own business, and we didn’t,” Alderman Matt Devoti said.

Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to commemorate this history.

The majority of gun deaths in America are from suicide. One father is trying to change that.

Gov. Mike Kehoe also approved cutting the state’s capital gains tax worth more than $400 million.

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A video posted to social media shows a man throwing lit fireworks at bar patrons and later at pedestrians on sidewalks in downtown St. Louis

This incident drew attention to the weekly anti-Donald Trump protests held in Carlinville, leading to a surge in participants at the July 1 protest.

ST. LOUIS — A city judge sentenced a man Thursday to 10 years in prison for fatally punching another man in the head during a 2023 fight outside of a north city market.

In Keisha Scarlett’s year as superintendent the operating budget fell from a surplus of $17 million to a projected deficit of $35 million.

Rod Hicks replaces publisher Donald M. Suggs, who had long edited the St. Louis American, which focuses on African-Americans and was first published in 1928.

Daron Wilson, 26, and Damon Hampton, 29, were both charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Mayor Cara Spencer said the money would pay for home repairs, rental assistance and resource hubs distributing supplies, among other things.