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The move to put 95 acres up for sale comes as Bayer envisions "a future that will require less physical office space than before."

The Phoenix Police Department wants drones and it wants them now. And, according to this report by the Phoenix New Times, it’s going to get them. After several hours of debate and spirited public response during the Phoenix City Council meeting this week, local officials agreed to authorize the police department to purchase public safety […]

ST. LOUIS--The Missouri State Highway Patrol says an 18-year-old from Ballwin has died in an early morning accident on Interstate 70 in Mid-Missouri. Authorities say Justin Tognozzi was driving westbound on I-70 in Callaway County just before 1 a.m. Friday when he lost control of his Nissan Altima on an ice-covered highway and struck a [...]

Developer Commercial Property Investors of O’Fallon, Illinois, is proposing a mixed-use development on 29 acres in O'Fallon, Illinois

"A delay longer than a month of starting the season will alter our outlook for the entire year."

SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 147,004 deer during all 2021-2022 archery and firearm seasons that concluded Jan. 16. The total preliminary deer harvest for all seasons compares with a total harvest for all seasons of 162,752 deer in 2020-2021. During the 2021-2022 deer seasons, hunters took 43.75% does and 56.25% males. Archery: Archery deer hunters in Illinois took a preliminary total of 67,637 deer during the season that began Oct. 1 and concluded Jan. 16. The total archery harvest during the 2020-2021 season was 75,106 deer. Youth: Youth deer hunters harvested a preliminary total of 1,829 deer during the three-day Illinois Youth Deer Season Oct. 9-11, compared to 2,322 in 2020. Traditional Firearm Season : Hunters took a preliminary total of 69,990 deer during the Illinois Firearm Deer Season Nov. 19-21 and Dec. 2-5, compared with 77,160 deer taken during the 2020 firearm season. Muzzleloader: Hunters using muzzleloading rifles

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The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis on Tuesday launched a 30-day NARCAN distribution effort in partnership with Americorps and B.A.S.I.C. (Black Alcohol/Drug Information Center).

Together, the companies have about 1,100 employees in the Ukraine.

ST. LOUIS - The Mayor's Ball is back, and it's celebrating its 20th anniversary at Union Station. The Mayor’s Ball for Mardi Gras has grown so much they needed to get a new location. This year it’s going to be at The Midway at the St. Louis Union Station.  Imagine all the beautiful selfies that can [...]

The Fast Track grant program is due to expire in August but would be prolonged for seven more years under the legislation that will go to the House.

The artist's paintings will be on display at the Angad Arts Hotel alongside works by Brandon Chavis from March 4 through May 29.

It's just no fun being a giant company aspiring to monopolize repair to boost revenues. On both the state and federal level, a flood of new bills are targeting companies' efforts to monopolize repair by implementing obnoxious DRM, making repair tools and manuals hard to find, bullying independent repair shops (like Apple does), or forcing tractor owners to drive hundreds of miles just to get their tractor repaired (one of John Deere's favorite pastimes). The Biden administration even just got done signing an executive order asking the FTC to tighten up its restrictions on the subject.

This week the list of right to repair legislation jumped by one with the introduction of the "Right to Equitable and Professional Auto Industry Repair" Act (REPAIR Act), which would mandate equitable access to repair tools and tech, boost the FTC's authority to handle consumer complaints, and mandate additional transparency by the auto industry:

"Americans should not be forced to bring their cars to more costly and inconvenient dealerships for repairs when independent auto-repair shops are often cheaper and far more accessible,” said Rep. Rush. “But as cars become more advanced, manufacturers are getting sole access to important vehicle data while independent repair shops are increasingly locked out. The status quo for auto repair is not tenable, and it is getting worse. If the monopoly on vehicle repair data continues, it would affect nearly 860,000 blue-collar workers and 274,000 service facilities."

The auto industry has been particularly obnoxious when it comes to providing independent access to data, tools, and repair manuals for cars with increasingly complicated internal electronics. That's a particular problem when an estimated 70 percent of U.S. cars are serviced by independent repair shops. The industry has also been obnoxious in their attempts to scuttle legislation attempting to address the problem, including running ads in Massachusetts that claimed an expansion of that state's right to repair legislation would only be of benefit to stalkers and sexual predators.

The problem for companies looking to monopolize repair is several fold. One, the harder they try to lock their technologies down, the greater the opposition grows. And that opposition tends to be both broad and bipartisan, ranging from the most fervent of urban Apple fanboys, to the most rural of John Deere tractor owners. This isn't a battle they're likely to win, and while we haven't seen federal legislation on this front passed yet, if the industries continue to push their luck in this space it's only a matter of time.

Take a short drive to visit a scenic winery, a historic theater, and more.

President Joe Biden has nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.