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Prices at the grocery store are soaring even faster than other prices. An expert explains why and explains that some grocers are making even less money than before.

Prison minimum wage bills are pending in New York and Illinois.

Wealthier neighborhoods in St. Louis have armed themselves with private police, giving them a level of service poor areas can’t afford and fueling racial and economic disparities.

The Schnucks store at 577 Mid Rivers Mall Drive in St. Peters is recalling ground beef products over concerns about metal shavings in the food.

St. Louis police are still trying to piece together how the 2:30 a.m. deadly crash occurred and have not identified the woman who died.

Two men held an Amazon driver at gunpoint early Saturday in the Central West End before stealing her SUV and undelivered packages.

Bryant A. Vetter, 30, died in the crash. It appears he was also the driver in a fatal crash more than 13 years ago where a passenger in the car he was driving in died.

Hearth & Soul, the brainchild of St. Louis' own Susie Busch Transou, is laid out like a home. It's part of the store's philosophy of being a welcoming place.

Larry W. McGee, 64, lost control of his 2006 Harley Davidson on a curve.

A local advocacy group for Muslim Americans called upon the city's police department to release officer body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a man at an apartment complex Wednesday.

On Monday through Saturday, comics will be reduced to a half-page, with a half-page of puzzles in the Everyday section. Sundays will feature four pages of comics in print, plus columns and puzzles.

Green is running for aldermanic president against Alderman Jack Coatar.

India-based drug company Bharat Biotech announced Tuesday that its nasal vaccine had received emergency approval. The vaccine technology was licensed from Washington University.

St. Louis’ largest private policing firm — hired to serve the city’s wealthier and whiter neighborhoods — is a who’s who of city police commanders, supervisors and other officers.

The win was good for an $18,500 payday for the two men, one from the Bootheel and the other from Tennessee.

A mural featuring an idyllic scene was mounted Saturday on Olive Boulevard. Boosters hope it will be the first of many to dot the commercial corridor.

St. Louis health officials announced Friday they recommended euthanizing three pit bulls suspected of attacking at least two people in July.

King Charles III has been officially announced as Britain's monarch in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.

Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan has some theories about why Biden has not appointed a U.S. attorney for our district.

FINDING 50TH THRILLS: A 50th anniversary is the stuff of stretch limos — and that’s precisely how Joe Edwards arrived at the bash Thursday night to celebrate his half-century of all the beer, darts and rock ’n’ roll he has…