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And taxes on sales of recreational marijuana were approved in Jefferson County and in five St. Louis County cities.

Also Tuesday, Joe Garritano and Liz Gibbons won their bids to become mayor of Wildwood and Kirkwood to succeed incumbents who weren’t seeking new terms.

Royals owner John Sherman and Chiefs president Mark Donovan acknowledged about two hours after polls closed that the ballot measure would fail.

The House and Senate have a May 10 deadline to send the state budget to Gov. Mike Parson.

St. Louis County prosecutors on Tuesday charged a MICDS junior varsity basketball coach with sending two students explicit photos.

Authorities on Monday charged a St. Louis sheriff's deputy after his 2-year-old nephew accidentally shot himself last month with the officer's service weapon.

The wheels from five rental cars were stolen on Friday from an Enterprise lot in Kirkwood.

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Jazzmyn Watford, 24, is facing charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action and domestic assault after prosecutors say she beat her girlfriend and then fatally shot a friend who came to help, 25-year-old Amora Brown.

The plan advanced Tuesday would ask voters to make constitutional amendments more difficult. But before that, voters would be asked about other things.

A woman who was struck by a school bus more than two weeks ago has died, police said.

But the metro area was largely spared from the worst potential hazards of the storm, which forecasters warned Monday could produce a combination of baseball-sized hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes.

A 17-year-old on Tuesday afternoon was shot in the city's Midtown neighborhood.

The measure provides that unlicensed schools would be overseen by a new board, with more than half of its members representing Christian schools, instead of the state.

Missouri’s official state flag was adopted in 1913.

The county hired longtime federal probation chief Kito Bess as its new jail director. He said he's here to stay.

The plan envisions multistory projects that use the existing historic buildings to offer everything from casual riverfront dining to upscale loft apartments.

Missouri is one of 11 states with formal chapters of the State Freedom Caucus Network.

The Missouri side of the metro area also will see 11 contested mayoral races and numerous races for seats on boards overseeing municipalities, school districts and fire protection districts.

The 24 reading teachers will be reassigned to lead elementary school classrooms across St. Louis Public Schools.