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Firefighters, police officers, and paramedics put on interactive demonstrations, but kids had sparks in their eyes too.

Why, a reader wonders, did my Friday chart about job gains have a big chunk of it blanked out? That's easy to explain with a quick comparison of three different ways of presenting the data. Here is Chart #1, which is what you'd think of as the default presentation. Just set the y-axis to fit ...continue reading "Charting the pandemic"

It’s been a beautiful but cool fall weekend, with Sunday’s high temperatures getting back to a little above normal.

With water levels low along the Mississippi’s critical shipping lanes, companies have been scrambling to find alternate ways to ship cargo.

Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis are teaming up to turn Steinberg Skating Rink into a year-round facility.

Veteran British musician and producer Peter Asher is recovering from an emergency brain operation that he underwent on Friday, October 7. The 78-year-old Asher, known as one-half of the 1960s…

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Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols both singled in their final at bats, but the Cardinals came up short and were swept out of the playoffs.

"I think what's happened in a lot of our school districts is crazy," said Eric Schmitt, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Missouri.

Authorities continue investigating a suspected kidnapping and sexual assault in a small Missouri town just northeast of Kansas City that was discovered when a malnourished woman escaped and screamed for help.

The Illinois State Police have arrested Xavier Bradley, 22, in connection with the murder of a police officer and wounding of another officer in the parking lot of a Comfort Inn in December 2021.