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Former St. Louis Cardinals star Adam Wainwright is taking his talents from Busch Stadium to the Grand Ole Opry.

After weeks of flirting with the idea, state Sen. Lincoln Hough of Springfield jumped into the Republican Primary for lieutenant governor on Thursday. Hough, who is serving his second term in the Missouri Senate, joins a field that includes a colleague, state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder of Scott City, House Speaker Dean Plocher, Franklin County Clerk Tim Baker and St. Louis County businessman Paul Berry III.  In an interview with The Independent, Hough said he will highlight his sponsorship of…

Mike Ward is chief information officer at Anderson Healthcare. It's not the only job he has. He's also a local police officer.

Chick-fil-A pays a fee based on the number of team members who enroll in a bachelor’s program. Missouri Baptist University provides the education, and the team member/student has the opportunity to earn a tuition-free bachelor’s degree, says university executive Bryce Chapman.

The Kansas City Royals are at least the 18th MLB club to add sponsor patches to sleeves.

AT&T said Thursday that most of the people affected by a nationwide service outage have cell service again, after hours without the ability to place calls, send texts or access the internet without Wi-Fi. In an emailed statement, an AT&T spokesperson said late Thursday morning that about a quarter of affected customers are still without cell service. “Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning," the spokesperson wrote. "Our network teams took immediate…

One of the St. Louis region's largest restaurant groups has shuttered a Metro East location.

The move comes as Boeing faces mounting pressure to demonstrate it has a handle on its quality-control problems in the wake of a midair fuselage blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 last month.

A California-based provider of information technology products and services is shuttering a St. Louis-area facility and laying off the workers there in phases through June.

A team of professors at Washington University has been awarded $20 million in federal funding to develop a new device designed to scan for eye diseases.

A St. Louis alderwoman said she'd file a bill Friday putting $15.3 million more in public money toward an expansion of the downtown convention center project.

American Queen Voyages, a river cruise line which offered trips along the Mississippi River with stops in St. Louis, has shut down.

In his new budget Governor J.B. Prtizker proposed $500 million in capital investments to help build the state as a quantum computing hub for years to come.

The Gateway Geyser, dubbed the tallest water fountain in the nation, is closing down after nearly 30 years in operation, according to a release from the Metro East Park and Recreation District and Gateway Center of Metropolitan St. Louis. The fountain, located in Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park in East St. Louis, was created in 1995 by the park's namesake. Martin was a St. Louis native and lawyer who created the park in hopes of connecting the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, now known as…

The owners of a chocolate factory on The Hill will expand their existing production space and open a chocolate café, after earlier this month acquiring a nearby building.

The art exhibition, which stretched along 6 miles of Jefferson Avenue, attracted an estimated 190,284 visitors with people traveling from 36 states and 12 countries, according to the report released Wednesday.

Lambert applied for $20 million for the design of its new central utility plant.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Mathbrix a $1 million grant from its Small Business Innovation Research program, with the funding to support the local startup’s learning app ThinkPlayful.

The project is led by the developers behind the other amusement attractions at Union Station.

St. Louis Alderwoman Cara Spencer said she'd file legislation Friday that would allow city police to boot cars that are involved in reckless driving.