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The former director of Agape Boarding School pleaded with a Cole County judge on Monday to keep himself off the state’s central registry of child abuse and neglect so he can keep working with children. Bryan Clemensen was the long-time director of the Stockton-based reform school for troubled boys until last month, he testified Monday.  […]

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The Veterans Health Care Act, a new law, has just increased health care and benefits for millions of veterans and their survivors.

Davante Lewis' victory brings new attention to the importance of public service commissions.

On Monday, Bobby Bostic drove on a highway for the first time in nearly 30 years. He was on his way to the Carnahan Courthouse in St. Louis. There, 27 years ago, he received a 241-year prison sentence for a crime he committed when he was 16.

How do researchers know? Stardust.

People on both sides of the river who were touched by the huge summer flooding have until today to apply for federal disaster loans.

A substitute teacher was removed from the district's list for five months after rape allegations first surfaced, then reinstated without explanation.

Pollstar is out with its list of the Top Tours of 2022, and while Bad Bunny’s tour lands at number one on both the worldwide and North American tours lists, artists like Elton John, Def…

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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition charges that the bank failed to follow through on written commitments that helped get a merger approved.

In the face of mounting evidence that inflation is easing, the Fed clings to a perverse monetary policy. What will its meeting this week produce?

The housing crisis and the climate crisis have shaped mayoral and city council elections in Texas’s fast-growing capital city.

The Board of Aldermen passed a bill establishing a Guaranteed Basic Income pilot program to help families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lou Ann Byington of Bonne Terre, MO joined the Real Rock Army today

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A soaring fundraiser jackpot has transformed recent Tuesday nights in Waterloo into can’t-miss events — complete with big crowds and bigger dreams of netting the massive payout.

The victim was shot in the head about 6:20 a.m. Monday in the 1400 block of Chouteau Avenue.

The Rev. Darryl Gray held Kevin Johnson’s shoulder as he died. It was the first time that someone on death row in Missouri had a spiritual adviser beside them in the chamber during a modern execution, advocates say.

An elderly couple from Belleville, Illinois, finally got results after dealing with sinkholes in their backyard.

The Caseyville Police Department recently seized enough street drugs to kill a small army. 

One person died, and two others were injured in a crash on Monday.

A protester accuses three St. Louis police officers—one of whom has since retired—of using excessive force in the wake of the verdict in the murder trial of former police officer Jason Stockley, who shot and killed drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith while on duty in 2011.