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A car traveled off the roadway, struck three vehicles, a road sign and a pedestrian before returning to the road and striking another vehicle.

Another deadly accident Monday night, this one in north St. Louis.

This weekend, ring in the Halloween season at St. Louis’ most iconic destination. On Saturday, October 15, the Gateway Arch will host a night of thrills and chills  with its Frights and Heights event.

A Missouri business owner was sentenced to 2  1/2 years  in prison on Thursday for his role in a health care scheme that submitted more than $7.5 million of fraudulent claims to Medicare. Jamie McCoy, 42, of Jackson, Missouri, pleaded guilty in November 2020 to three felonies before being sentenced last week. McCoy owned AE Wellness, a company that supplied durable medical equipment, including orthotic braces, to patients.

The Saint Louis Public Schools system chose an interim superintendent to take over the job after current Superintendent Kelvin Adams retires at the end of the year. In a press release Monday, SLPS announced Nicole Williams will take over the position Jan. 1, 2023, following Adams' retirement. Adams announced in August that he would be retiring at the end of the year. He has been the district's superintendent for 14 years. The release said Williams, who currently serves as Adams' chief of staff,…

A Washington University professor was among three economists to receive a Nobel Prize on Monday for research on the role of banks in financial crises.

St. Louis Lambert International Airport had its website targeted as part of a larger apparent cyberattack Monday, but officials said the airport was still functioning normally during the outage. Roger Lotz, a spokesman for Lambert airport, said the website went down early Monday but was restored at around 3 p.m. He said the outage did not affect any of the operations at the airport. While the website was down, the airport set up a hotline for people to get information and access services typically…

Illinois is giving voters an option to vote by mail permanently.

You may want to check your freezer Tuesday morning.

When MARSH opened in the summer of 2021, people streamed into the store. Shoppers. News cameras.

Another warning to parents ahead of Halloween.

After the first monkeypox infection hit the City of St. Louis in July, the number of infections has increased in recent weeks. The St. Louis Department of Health reported 52 cases of monkeypox in St. Louis on Thursday –– up from 36 two weeks ago. Cases in Missouri have stayed lower than most states with 128 total cases, the 29th highest in the country.

County Executive Sam Page said three to five years is "about normal" for government construction projects. The police union said it's political.

The new laboratory in Kansas City is the second diagnostics facility EmpowerMe Wellness has opened this year. The senior health provider has rapidly grown its footprint across the U.S., most recently through an M&A deal that nearly doubled its headcount.

A push by the attorney general’s office for the emails of professors and staff at the University of Missouri has academic freedom advocates concerned the office is being weaponized to stifle free speech and deter researchers’ work. In June, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office sent two records requests to the university. The first sought […]

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“It was a message,” Danforth said. “And it was a reaction to Trump.”

This story was originally published by Stateline.  The increasing popularity of hybrid and electric vehicles is shrinking revenue from gas taxes, prompting more states to consider charging fees based on miles driven to help pay for roads and bridges. This year at least eight states — Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington — considered […]

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“A bunch of countries and corporations are responsible for the mess. They have to bloody clean it up. As simple as that.”

Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms, libraries, sports fields, even building plans.