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Rising costs tighten margins for business owners. And to make up for that increased pressure, businesses usually have to raise prices.

About 6 in 10 parents say they’ve helped their young adult children financially within the past year, according to a report released earlier this year from the Pew Research Center.

There’s nothing new about surge pricing, or “dynamic pricing” as industry proponents call it.

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Catch up on the latest local business awards, moves, milestones, and expansions.

The newest sighting is one of dozens of bear sightings reported across the St. Louis area and southern Illinois this summer.

NASA has decided it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule. They’ll have to wait until February for a ride home with SpaceX.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY — The family of a Ferguson officer severely injured during a protest this month is hopeful he'll wake up soon as sedation is gradually reduced.

A man was shot and killed early Saturday in the city's Mark Twain neighborhood.

W. Raymond Barrett, 91, who founded Biomedical Systems Corp. and the old Landshire packaged food company, died Monday at his home in Des Peres.

Animal Protective Association president said "the turnaround at Olivette has been dramatic" and the county shelter is in "a strong operational and logistical state."

The associate members, the station's volunteers and former volunteers, will have two new members on the corporate board of directors.

Illinois State Police identified the suspect Friday as 27-year-old Vernon Randle Jr. of Alton.

Monastery leader Mother Cecilia noted last year that Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster is thought to be the first African American woman found incorrupt after being exhumed.

Personnel Director Sonya Jenkins-Gray confirmed the leave Friday, saying she had left the office in an ambulance Thursday. “I've got some medical things,” she said.

Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, Rep. Hannah Kelly, anti-abortion activist Kathleen Forck and Marguerite Forrest, the operator of a shelter for homeless pregnant women in St. Louis County, filed the lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court.

A nonverbal student with Down syndrome is suing a former school custodian who earlier this year pleaded guilty to molesting the teen.

Elementary students at Long Elementary provided their expert feedback and voted on a replacement for Crestwood Park's playground.

The announcement came a day after Parson urged Ashcroft to reconsider his decision this week to reject emergency rules to limit sales of intoxicating hemp products.