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Lindbergh High School helps with the 13th annual football game for children fighting serious diseases.

A 15-year-old was rushed to a hospital after being shot Sunday evening in a north St. Louis neighborhood.

At a candidate forum Sunday in St. Louis, citizens called attention to issues such as homelessness, drug addiction, poor access to affordable housing and more.

Is crime up these days? Or is it down? What kind of crime, anyway? You would be surprised how hard this question is to answer. On a national level, crime statistics take a year to compile so they're always way out of date. To make things worse, the FBI recently changed its crime-reporting process and ...continue reading "Raw data: A different way of looking at fear of crime"

It was the end of an era in St. Louis that included near-annual appearances in the postseason and two World Series championships.

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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