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U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II was speaking to a St. Louis crowd, 161 years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Efforts to boost enrollment at St. Louis-area colleges focus on students who left school with just a few classes to finish.

ST. CHARLES — A new city hall complex could soon be in store for St. Charles residents.

Slay served as St. Louis mayor from 2001 to 2017.

A St. Charles woman is facing a felony assault charge after authorities say she attacked a worker at a non-profit that provides aid to teens in need.

Local barbeque chain Sugarfire Smokehouse is slated to open its first North County location Wednesday in Florissant

The decision is nonbinding and the state now has until Feb. 15 to submit a detailed plan to the federal government to run the program.

A man was shot and killed early Monday in Moline Acres.

A 44-year-old man was shot several times and killed Monday evening in his home in Dellwood.

The following are just some of the big local news stories from 2023:

Just some of the people in government, business, the arts and other areas with St. Louis area ties who died this year.

Jeffrey M. Stoppelmann was 52.

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man is facing second-degree murder charges in connection to the shooting death of a woman in St. Louis’ Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced on ESPN that the XFL and the USFL have merged into the UFL — the United Football League, which will have eight teams and play this spring, beginning on March 30.

Lewis Wilkes Hine photographed some of St. Louis’ hardscrabble newsboys during a visit here in early May 1910.

The storm that began Jan. 8, 1905, was more unpleasant than historic. But the hardened accumulation made for a great slide, if that was one’s intent.

Here are key retail and business openings and closings for the St. Louis area in December.

LINCOLN COUNTY — A 16-year-old teen was shot and killed Sunday morning in rural Lincoln County, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.

Three years ago, the St. Louis police department abruptly turned off its public spigot of detailed geographic crime data. It’s left community groups and researchers in the lurch.

Check out the top St. Louis-area business stories from the past year.