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Aisha Sultan writes: Missouri’s trapped in a persistent, downward cycle of not investing in public education and losing its brightest and talented young adults because better opportunities lure them elsewhere.

House Bill 2933, filed by Rep. Brad Christ on Tuesday, a south St. Louis County Republican, would allow districts to withdraw from Special School District.

Like other cases involving past police liability, city of St. Louis argues new local control bill shifts responsibility to the state.

Headlines from the Jan. 16, 1926, front page include: Mayor insists on popular vote on franchise for new car company

Foster, Richard "Dick" - Saint Louis, MO

Richard "Dick" Foster, age 81, passed peacefully surrounded by family on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. SERVICES: Hutchens Mortuary in Florissant. Visitation, January 17th, from 10 to 11 a.m. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Jacquelyn "Jackie" (Schenk) Wegman passed peacefully on January 9th, at the age of 93. Beloved wife, Stepmother, Grandma, Great Grandma and Aunt to many.

Angelynn Mock, who was known as Angie Mock while working for KTVI, Channel 2, was charged with first-degree murder last fall in Wichita, Kansas.

The man said he believed he had embezzled more than $400,000 by the time his yearslong scheme was discovered in February 2025.

Billy Long’s prospects of becoming ambassador to Iceland hit a stumbling block this week, as the former Missouri congressman had to apologize Thursday after facing backlash for his comments suggesting the country should become a U.S. state, with him serving…

Michael Cornell Jr., 39, faces nine felony charges, seven of them for alleged sodomy or attempted sodomy. Cornell is also charged with harassment and possession of child pornography.

Paul McKee's NorthSide Regeneration fell out of favor with City Hall a decade ago. The city is finally trying to dislodge his properties in an area it has targeted for redevelopment.

RIVERVIEW — The mayor here was arrested Thursday by St. Louis County Police on criminal charges.

Thursday's filibuster was the first of the Missouri Legislature's 2026 session

Julie A. Nappier, 54, of Valmeyer, was sentenced to serve a prison term concurrently with a previous sentence for theft from a Columbia, Illinois, district.

The SLU Tuition Promise is for students from families earning up to $60,000 with limited assets.

If convicted, Bosley faces up to 20 years in prison on each wire fraud charge and five years for making false statements. Sentencing guidelines would likely recommend less than that.

The 149-page complaint, filed by Attorney General Catherine Hanaway in St. Louis County on Tuesday, adds Missouri to a growing list of states accusing the manufacturers and third-party middlemen of inflating the price of insulin, even as the cost of…

A new report says Stan Kroenke now ranks as America’s biggest landowner, after completing a massive land deal in New Mexico last month.

In 2015, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia reached out to every OBGYN in Missouri with a request. Would any of the doctors be willing to help provide abortion services?