As Route 66 approaches its 100th anniversary this year, communities across the St. Louis area are gearing up to celebrate the "Mother Road" with festivals, concerts, museum exhibits, and roadside attractions. Whether you're looking for a quick day trip or a full weekend outing, we've got you covered with a list of places and events around the St. Louis area that can help get you festive and celebrate America's most famous highway.
A proposal for new police drones in St. Louis was debated and passed by the Police Board on Wednesday, despite opposition from St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer. The plan authorizes Police Chief Robert Tracy to move forward with an agreement to deploy six drones for emergency response.
Millions of dollars will be raised and spent on candidates and ballot questions this August alone, like high-dollar campaigns associated with Amendment Five, a proposed constitutional amendment on the state’s income tax.
After a decade of dedicated service to the community, Angelic Healthcare Services is breaking ground on a new project. The organization is now developing a site design to provide meals and tutoring opportunities to local children.
The red plastic cups, stained-glass lamps, checkerboard tablecloths, arcade games, and red roofs that defined Pizza Hut in the 1980s and 1990s are officially making a comeback in Missouri, with a few locations in the St. Louis area among the ones bringing back the retro experience.
A Metro East facility helping those who deal with mental health is set to move forward with their care by relocating to an old farmhouse from the 19th century.
It’s been a fantastic spring for lawns across the St. Louis area thanks to all the rain and mild temperatures. Experts say homeowners need to shift their focus to summer heat and humidity.
Edward Jones, the financial services firm headquartered in St. Louis County, is exploring the creation of a technology hub in India as part of a broader effort to restructure some of its operations.
St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Dustin May lost his no-hitter against the Brewers in Milwaukee on Wednesday when Garrett Mitchell led off the eighth inning with a double. May was removed from the game when the next hitter, Luis Rengifo, singled.
A St. Louis man was found shot to death inside his car Tuesday night in Berkeley after what witnesses described as a rolling shooting incident on Airport Road.
A major redevelopment proposal in Ladue calls for the city's first-ever apartments, along with dozens of villas, custom homes and neighborhood retail space, at the Rock Hill Quarries landfill site.
Homicide detectives arrested a second person for a shooting at a fast-food drive-thru window in April that left one woman dead and another person injured.
Hazelwood Police say a minor had just stepped off a school bus when a white vehicle sped past, then circled back. Several people jumped out, confronted the victim at gunpoint and beat him with a firearm before taking a cellphone, hoodie, shoes and glasses.
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol says he warned the Brewers about relaying signs from the dugout during Tuesday night’s game, a situation that came to a head when Milwaukee reliever Abner Uribe gestured toward the St. Louis dugout with three WWE-style crotch chops after an inning-ending strikeout in the eighth. Speaking through an interpreter, Uribe said after the game that he believed Marmol had been making signs that led him to believe were meant to direct Cardinals pitchers to hit Brewers batters with pitches. Christian Yelich, speaking in the Brewers’ clubhouse on Wednesday, described Uribe’s gesture as “a little bit over the top.”
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