JEFFERSON CITY — A company with plans to mine silica sand close to Ste. Genevieve County residents who oppose it was handed a loss Thursday before the Missouri Mining Commission.
There’s still one last day for St. Louisans to file paperwork for aldermanic races this spring. But about 40 have already filed, and the jockeying has begun.
The company planning a huge expansion to help build electric vehicle batteries in St. Louis agreed last month to pay a $33 million fine for pollution in Israel.
Local and federal officials on Thursday said they are concerned about the increasing popularity of attachments that make semiautomatic guns fully automatic.
Conservative Republicans are backing Florida Rep. Byron Donalds in their effort to prevent House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy from winning the speakership.