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Local business and nonprofit groups say St. Louis urgently needs investment in child care, to boost parents, children, and the regional economy.

Longtime employees Kenny Clifton and Jack O’Leary, both 28, took over the 77-year-old family-run butcher shop in Brentwood in September.

Richard Russell has been in federal prison for the better part of two decades. He's been writing letters throughout that time, ranging from threats to apologies to cries for help.

Bill McClellan writes: “... the photo stuck with me. I love the year 1927. It illustrates how difficult it is to imagine the future.”

Whistleblower alleges multiple cases of abuse at Niños de México, and he’s not the only one.

Landowners say hundred-year-old oaks have gotten sickly. Conservation workers are documenting trees with curling leaves and forests with thinning canopies. Scientists have found widespread evidence of chemicals in their leaves.

St. Louis’ Cori Bush is among a small group of Democrats viewed by critics as insufficiently supportive of Israel — or insufficiently critical of Hamas.

SIUE is the only doctorate pharmacy program in downstate Illinois. It offers students classroom education, research, community service and patient care.

The Fairview Heights Transit Center is the sixth and final building to be constructed as part of the STLCC Transformed project.

Check out the current trends in gas prices in Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has identified Kenrich Eddins as the man who was killed in the crash, which happened near the borders of Dellwood and Ferguson.

Officials in a suburban Chicago community have issued municipal citations to a local news reporter for what they say were persistent contacts with city officials seeking comment on fall flooding.

Through the Illinois Electric Vehicle Rebate Program, people can receive $4,000 for the purchase of an electric passenger vehicle or $1,500 for buying an electric motorcycle.

ST. LOUIS • In the first week of November 1918, the headlines were all about the collapse of the German lines after four years of exhausting, ghastly World War. Inside pages carried daily local death tolls from the Spanish flu…

A 20-year-old Ferguson man died early Friday after he did not stop for police and then drove off the road.

Effingham County State's Attorney Aaron Jones said he will have to wait until the investigation is concluded before he can consider whether any charges will be brought.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Illinois’ sweeping ban on high-powered guns, rejecting an argument that the law violates the Second Amendment rights of residents.

The Missouri Attorney General's office filed its suit against a company accused of leaving a massive mound of illegally dumped roofing materials in St. Louis.

Demand for the program is strong, but the fundraising mechanism is challenging, a spokesman for Treasurer Vivek Malek says.

Prosecutors argued that Williams' actions constituted first-degree murder because he deliberated before returning to the neighborhood and opening fire.