Shortly after 1 a.m. on April 11, 1877, the first alarms were screams from guests and employees who saw flames climb the freight elevator from the basement.
A proposal to change the minimum legal marriage age from 16 to 18 with no exceptions won first-round approval. It needs one more procedural vote before consideration by the House.
Local governments would have to pay off debt owed on blighted properties subject to eminent domain under proposal by Sen. Nick Schroer, which could benefit McKee lender Bank of Washington
Attorneys for death row inmate Marcellus Williams, convicted of killing ex-Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle, are challenging Gov. Mike Parson’s move to rescind a previous stay of execution and dissolve a Board of Inquiry that had been looking into his case.
About two-thirds of Americans say abortion should generally be legal, according to polling by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
After several high-profile cases of fraud that included St. Louis, state regulators will gain access to new oversight tools for childhood nutrition programs, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said.
An escaped mountain goat that somehow got stuck under a Kansas City bridge now may be reunited with the owners who suspect he was stolen from their farm.
Renn Hudson, 31, was choking and punching his 28-year-old girlfriend inside a car at North Riverfront Park on Saturday when the girlfriend pulled a knife and stabbed him, police said.