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Festival acts include the Black Keys, Brandi Carlile, Ice Cube, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Brittany Howard and the Sugarhill Gang.

As some states wrap up this year’s summer food aid program, Missouri is still distributing last year’s benefits. Officials say they must complete dispersal by the end of this year.

Republicans who control state government have routinely blocked gun control measures.

The Indonesian government has reached a tentative agreement to buy as many as 24 of Boeing's F-15EX fighter jets, which are made in St. Louis County.

The results mirror a national poll released in May.

The draft shows that the bill largely mirrors existing federal law on machine guns and other heavily regulated firearms. But it will not prohibit AR-15s as suggested, experts said.

Warby Parker is set to open its third St. Louis-area location at Town and Country Crossing shopping center this fall.

Homicides in St. Louis are down about 22% from this time last year, and other reported crimes in the city are among their lowest levels since 2009.

Four graduates of Lift for Life Academy are teaching at the charter school this year.

Area officials in a variety of settings described the list of complications wrought by the heat, which on Wednesday felt like 113 degrees in St. Louis.

The funding, which will be distributed to the Illinois Department of Labor, comes from a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed through Congress and was pushed by Biden.

The schools were under a shelter-in-place for two hours while police investigated.

The trolley's cars aren't air-conditioned, spurring the Bi-State Development Agency to cancel Thursday and Friday runs.

Six interagency law enforcement task forces received grant funding to combat car thefts through an initiative of Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office.

Tuesday evening, an air conditioning chiller at BJC HealthCare Missouri Baptist Medical Center stopped working, the health system said.

The man died on the way to the hospital after having been jailed since June for third-degree assault, according to a civil attorney hired by his family.

The company has entered into a restructuring agreement, which will help it to reduce its total debt by about $1.9 billion.

Bill would require online platforms to report child sex trafficking or sexual enticement to police, and to share location, identification data about posters.

Police on Wednesday said five inmates, including three who were being held on murder charges, were involved in taking a jail guard hostage for more than two hours on Tuesday.

Olin Corp. is set to acquire White Flyer Targets the company announced Wednesday. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2023.