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A meeting of the Kirkwood City Council grew contentious as council members debated whether to increase residents' water rates by 25% over the next decade.

There’s a massive backlash brewing against that data centers needed to fuel AI demand. For good reason.

The crash involving a tractor-trailer and an SUV was reported about 12:30 a.m. Friday, west of Elm Avenue.

St. Louis soared into the aviation age with Teddy Roosevelt in 1910, Charles Lindbergh, Mercury and Gemini, and hot jet fighter planes.

Headlines from the July 17, 1926, front page include: Validity of weddings on American ships in doubt.

Calcaterra, Bridget (Mary) Gunn - Saint Louis, MO

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Rashad Rice, 52, was described as a brilliant and funny man who loved to read and listen to podcasts.

A federal health agency found "no compliance concerns" with the board's operations, said Andrew Shaughnessy, chair of the St. Louis County Clinical Consumer Majority Board.

This week, owner Andy Fair shared that the business has run into a roadblock securing a loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Christopher Sean Pearson faces charges of endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest.

George McDonald III pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Daniel "Dee Dee" Stahl. Daniel's family called it "another injustice."

Antone Pate, 33, took a deal with prosecutors in April and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and resisting arrest. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to prison.

Bush is trying to regain the U.S. House seat that she lost to U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell in 2024. She and Bell will square off in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary.

Illinois Department of Transportation crews will close lanes of westbound Interstate 270 from Illinois 3 to the Mississippi River in Madison County this weekend for construction.