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Piker, a far-left commentator lambasted for his controversial remarks, introduced former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush at a May Day rally in downtown St. Louis on Friday.

A $7.4 billion settlement reached with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, has gone into effect, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced Friday.

Higher gas and oil prices disproportionately affect modest and poorer families and ripple through the economy, a University of Chicago professor says.

Headlines from the May 2, 1926, front page include: $189,000 cost of liquidating two wrecked banks.

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Amanda Bagley, 38, died Tuesday of injuries from a crash April 21 at Horseshoe Lake Road and Interstate 255 near Collinsville, police said.

The probe centers around potentially including sexual orientation or gender ideology material in their curriculum and violating parental rights.

A bicyclist, 66-year-old Mark Ryan, died after being struck in the 2200 block of Hudson Drive.

Jazzmine Nolan-Echols, executive director of Voices since December, said the school board placed her on leave because she refused to participate in the closure process.

A march, organized by Missouri Workers Center and Party for Socialism and Liberation - St. Louis, will begin at Aloe Plaza near Union Station downtown at 5:30 p.m.

The West Community SLYSA Complex, at 3901 Huster Road, is north of a site once eyed for a data center.

The Gasconade Street ramp to northbound Interstate 55 will close for 30 days for repairs.

"Whatever you consider family, I love it when those groups are together doing fun things on the farm," said company vice president Angie Eckert.

BELLEVILLE — An East St. Louis man was sentenced in St. Clair County Circuit Court for killing a Belleville teenager last winter.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer Friday morning on westbound Interstate 64 in St. Clair County.

The Missouri House voted down a bill Thursday that would have expanded the rights of parents in their child’s school or doctor’s office.

Out-of-towners can be brutal in assessing downtown St. Louis. But they're not the only ones, and that's a problem. (Free story; no paywall).