As the NFL season officially kicks off Thursday night when the Dallas Cowboys take on the Philadelphia Eagles, a few players from the St. Louis area will be on the field. This will continue throughout the weekend, as dozens more natives of the region will be in action across the league.
COLE COUNTY, Mo. - The Missouri NAACP has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Mike Kehoe in an effort to stop a special session on congressional redistricting, calling the move unconstitutional. On Wednesday, Missouri lawmakers convened for a special session Gov. Kehoe called last week to redraw the boundaries of the state's eight congressional districts and [...]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz and Kansas counterpart Lance Leipold spent some time this week not as football coaches teaching the X's and O's but as history professors delivering to their teams the story of free states and slave states. After all, therein lies the foundation of the Border War. One of [...]
ST. LOUIS - Spire Missouri, a natural gas provider in the St. Louis area, is set for another rate hike this fall, a move expected to increase monthly customer bills by 10% on average. On Wednesday, the Missouri Public Service Commission approved a plan for a $210 million rate increase for natural gas customers of [...]
MADISON, Ill. - Start your engines! NASCAR roars back into the Metro East this weekend as Enjoy Illinois 300 returns to World Wide Technology Raceway for the fourth consecutive year. For the first time ever, WWT Raceway will play host to the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, serving as the second of 10 playoff races on the road [...]
A woman shot and killed her husband last month, then attempted to clean up the crime scene with the help of a witness, according to charging documents.
Police in St. Francois County, Missouri made two significant drug busts last week, uncovering suspected fentanyl and methamphetamine, with the suspects awaiting charges pending the results of crime lab analysis.
ST. LOUIS - Our rain and thunder are pushing off to the south Thursday morning, exiting with the cold front. We’ll see clearing skies during the morning and sun through the afternoon. It will be a noticeably cooler day, with highs in the mis 70s. Clear Thursday evening and for most of the overnight, with [...]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Willson Contreras had three hits and four RBIs, Nolan Gorman homered and Matthew Liberatore pitched 5 1/3 shutout innings in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 5-1 victory over the Athletics on Wednesday night. Liberatore (7-11) struck out seven. JoJo Romero got the final four outs for his seventh save. Gorman hit a [...]
ST. LOUIS - A tornado victim who lives in the Fountain Park neighborhood of north St. Louis still does not have power almost four months after the storm. Melvin Arnold is living in a home filled with black mold. He has lived in the home for more than 40 years. He's had offers to stay [...]
MADISON COUNTY, Ill. - A Madison County judge has denied Terry Sedlacek's request to be transferred from Alton Mental Health Center to a non-secure facility. Sedlacek, 43, who killed Pastor Fred Winters during a church service in Maryville in 2009, also had his request for supervised outings denied by the judge. During the '09 shooting, [...]
The training program offered by the St. Louis-area gun store includes security assessments, threat evaluations, medical aid and hands-on training designed to equip ushers and staff for worst-case scenarios.
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country. A DOJ official in August contacted the county clerks and asked for access to [...]
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