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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 23, 1959:

In the days when many children lived in orphanages and hospital wards, do-gooders visited them on Christmas with gifts and warm wishes.

Total Access Urgent Care is set to pay $9.1 million to the federal government to settle allegations that the company overbilled federal insurance programs for services, including COVID-19 testing.

The courses were first offered in 2021 after students complained about discrimination against students and staff of color.

Ronnell Welch was charged with murder after the death this year of Devyn Trampe.

For the first time since early last year, food prices aren’t rising faster than overall inflation. Check out how the costs of food and drink in St. Louis and the U.S. are keeping up.

A St. Louis County jury convicted a man Wednesday for killing his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend and injuring her mother in a March 2021 shooting in a Jennings home.

The high school elective courses Black History and Black Literature would effectively be dropped by fall 2024, teachers said.

Jason Kuhl, CEO of the St. Charles City-County Library District, said the move would affect an "exceedingly small number" of the 700,000-plus books in the library's collection.

A man was shot and killed early Wednesday in a parking lot.

Rep. Sarah Unsicker was accused of spreading aantisemitic accusations that her Jewish political opponent was working for the Israeli government.

Alan Bill was arrested last week at an airport in New Jersey after he was charged by federal authorities with drug trafficking, identity theft and money laundering.

The new lawsuit from Big Sur is being handled by one of the region’s preeminent law firms, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.

The lawyer representing two business owners on Wednesday posted a video that he says shows police blowing through a red light seconds before crashing into a St. Louis bar.

Two women who were critically injured in a fire earlier this month have died.

Valentino Carpenter was sentenced Wednesday to prison for selling his friend two fentanyl pills before her fatal overdose that left her three young children unattended for 16 hours.

Two state agencies are being headed by acting directors after the departure of top aides to Gov. Mike Parson.

Rep. Justin Sparks’ bill would ban taxpayer-paid reparations “on the basis of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or economic class.”

Public records show the Missouri House spent $60,000 of taxpayer money renovating the speaker’s office, including $29,000 on new furniture.

The city of St. Louis refused to release emails unless a woman paid $4,500 to convert them into a different format. "There’s no justification whatsoever."