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The auditor’s chief of investigations sent a letter to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones requesting jail food vendor invoices, jail facility and operational policies and jail health insurance contracts.

The moon will block 54% of the sun this time, but in April, St. Louisans can go an hour south or two hours west to see a total eclipse.

The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the victim as Chase J. Willard, 25.

The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the victim as Sharon Y. Rodgers, 55, of Washington, Missouri.

Here are a few of our staff picks for things to do Oct. 13-19.

The suspected gunman surrendered at a police station and is charged with assault.

The express lanes that begin on I-70 in north St. Louis will close at 9 a.m. Monday and reopen by 5 a.m. the following Saturday.

The $500 million McDonnell Foundation, formed in 1950 by the aerospace pioneer who founded McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis in 1939, is shifting its focus from academics to its hometown.

On this date, a Post-Dispatch managing editor shot and killed his adversary in newspaper office.

In a matchup with Lucas Kunce, Hawley won 45% of respondents compared to 32%. Pitted against Wesley Bell, the numbers are similar: Hawley has 44% support compared to 34%.

The Women's Safe House broke ground Thursday on a climate-controlled kennel that can hold up to eight animals, making it the first pet-friendly shelter in St. Louis.

The former Most Holy Trinity, St. Nicholas and Sts. Teresa and Bridget will now be known as St. Josephine Bakhita parish.

More than two dozen students are now facing criminal charges for the Aug. 30 fights at Alton High School.

Owner Maggie Laskowitz announced the closure and assured customers that Mix and Match’s City Foundry location will remain open to shoppers.

Jones pledged to work to foster tolerance for both Jews and Muslims locally and called on residents to do their part, as well.

The federal organization that oversees battle monuments around the world wants $30,000 to rehabilitate the World War I Missouri Memorial located in Cheppy, France.

Whatever questions there have been about SZA and St. Louis, she put them to rest in her near-two-hour concert. The special extended set was decidedly “so, so St. Louis.”

East St. Louis native Shelby Jordan is the only Washington U. player to reach the NFL. “It’s not just him as an athlete but the impact he had on people."

This week, as autumn weather arrived and overnight temperatures dipped, auto workers brought fire pits out to the picket lines at the GM plant in Wentzville.

The right-wing website, founded by brothers Jim and Joe Hoft, was sued for defamation and emotional distress by two former Georgia election workers in 2021.