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January 25, 1972 - November 1, 2025

John "Jack" F. Wiegers, beloved educator, physicist, and lifelong advocate for science education, passed away on October 19, 2025. Jack's career spanned nearly 70 years, leaving a profound impact on generations of students and teachers in St. Louis and beyond.

The green shoots are sometimes hard to see. But they are there.

Police were called to a shooting at around 4:45 a.m. in the 1000 block of Cass Avenue, near the intersection with Tucker Boulevard in the city's Columbus Square neighborhood.

Puzzles, a hemp shop in St. Louis County, will close if ban goes into effect next year, owner says. “Bracing for the industry to be wiped out.”

Mike and Karen Koehneman like having a place to get away from the day-to-day work at the farm yet still be close.

Bill McClellan writes: In January of 2000, I wrote a column about Morris Shenker, who had died 11 years earlier. I declared him St. Louisan of the Millennium.

The Post-Dispatch, which has partnered with the United Way for over five decades, will highlight the stories of 100 families over the next month.

American farmers were hopeful that their biggest customer would resume buying their crops. But an economist says there isn't much incentive for China to buy from America right now.

Of the 16 arrestees with criminal histories, five involved domestic battery, two were related to drunken driving, and one allegedly had an unidentified criminal history in another country.

Reynaldo Navarro-Chapol, along with his younger brother Luis Navarro-Chapol and at least eight others, have been charged with illegal reentry after deportation in recent months in southern Illinois.

Missouri Public Service Commission staff and the Missouri Office of Public Counsel, an organization that advocates for small business and residential customers, did not support the order.

Headlines from the Nov. 15, 1925, front page include: 20 years in prison for former 'dragon' of Indiana Ku Klux

September 23, 1930 — November 11, 2025

Barteau, Dallas Frank — St. Peters, MO

January 25, 1972 — November 1, 2025

A two-month-old infant suffered "severe burns" after the child's mother put the baby in hot water, county police wrote in court documents.

ST. CHARLES — A 17-year-old teen has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the stabbing death of a St. Charles man last month.

Crash occurred shortly before 10 p.m. near Foley, police said.

"They went home with some new City Museum apparel — super generous of us, right?" the museum quipped in the video.