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Riding upon floats bought from Mardi Gras in New Orleans, members rolled their first parade on Oct. 8, 1878.

The PGA WORKS Fellowship gives recent college graduates a first-hand look at everything a career in the $102 billion golf industry can provide.

The 11-story, 207-room AC Hotel will give downtown Clayton 1,323 hotel rooms. The site at 227 S. Central once headquartered the Clayton Police.

Police said it wasn't related to a popular chili cook-off also going on downtown.

The vehicle was dumped in St. Louis County.

The license of a funeral director at a Carlinville funeral home under investigation for its handling of remains has been revoked.

Is our economy doing better or worse? See recent changes in local employment, regional inflation and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in a QuickTrip at 10768 West Florissant Avenue.

Metro said Saturday that it was unable to contact customers who had reserved rides on Saturday and Sunday. The ride service's scheduling system was also unavailable to customers.

Ten bags of chocolate chips were listed for 80 cents. Forty-one bars of soap, for a dime. A bid on 24 cans of Campbell's cream of celery soup was a quarter.

Kirkwood City Council is poised to vote on $12.5 million purchase of building appraised at $3.2 million.

At issue was a 2020 lawsuit by a St. Louis-area resident, a restaurant and a church challenging policies like occupancy limits and mask requirements aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.

A train on Friday afternoon snagged a low-hanging set of wires, taking out several utility poles in the area of Chouteau Avenue and South First Street in downtown St. Louis.

A dead body was found Friday afternoon in the Mississippi River in East St. Louis.

One charge gets dropped in case against Iron County man in which he is accused of leading a "criminal street gang" involving the sheriff and his deputies.

Amy and Matt Herren serve terrific wood-fired pizza at 1929 and excellent boiled-and-baked bagels at C&B.

The women — two house guests, a babysitter and two foreign exchange students — have all filed lawsuits against Joseph Gutowski, 46, in the past four months.

Check out the peaks and valleys in volatile local gas prices, and track motor vehicle sales, financing and production.

But Gaston's attorney, Scott Rosenblum, lifted a piece of paper up to the judge. It was, he argued a valid child custody agreement. "All of this other stuff is nonsense," Rosenblum said.

Here are a few of our staff picks for things to do Oct. 6-12.