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The Kansas City Police Department said it is fully cooperating with the Department of Justice's investigation into employment practices.

After a two-plus year delay, the band finally made its way back to St. Louis with opener Pluralone.

Following closing of the deal, the agriculture giant says it will no longer have operations in Russia.

The St. Louis Fire Department said on Twitter shortly before 4 a.m. that heavy fire was showing from the roof of a two-story brick commercial building on the 2000-block of Chouteau Avenue. No injuries were reported, and no cause has been announced.

The audience at this weekend's Bread and Roses Missouri's Workers' Opera: Our Stories United Will Never Be Divided will see a sketch about Kias being stolen. But the plot wasn't ripped from the headlines.

You knew I'd get to it eventually, so why not today? This is the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, taken in panorama mode as usual for shots like this. I was happy that I happened to get a few seconds when there was no one at my end of the hall, and that's when I ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

You might recall that Elon Musk claims that he hates taxpayer subsidies. They should all be “deleted.” Except for the subsidies given to his companies, apparently. You might recall that Musk’s Starlink gamed the Trump FCC Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to grab $886 million in taxpayer dollars. It was a deal consumer groups noted […]

More than 31 years since they played their first show in St. Louis, iconic rock & roll band Pearl Jam returned to town for the first time post-COVID, playing a show that was as effortless-looking as it was energetic to a packed Enterprise Center. The band has been touring for three decades, during which time its members have clearly honed their skills at working arena crowds and making the biggest venues in town feel close knit and compact. During Sunday's two-plus-hour-long show, still-spry frontman Eddie Vedder windmilled his guitar, jump-kicked off his monitors, and singled out various members of the audience for their air drumming skills, their youth, and their being really high.

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EDWARDSVILLE – The 14th Annual Tiger Ambush Band Classic was once again a showcase for some of the best marching bands in Illinois and Missouri. First place overall at the 14 th Annual Tiger Ambush Band Classic Saturday at the Edwardsville High School field went to Salem Community High School Marching Wildcats in Class A, Mehlville High School Marching Panthers in Class AA, Rockwood Summit High School Silver Falcon Marching Band in Class AAA and Timberland High School Marching Wolves in Class AAAA. Salem, Mehlville, Rockwood, and Timberland all posted firsts in Outstanding Color Guard, Outstanding Percussion, and Outstanding General Effect. The Belleville East High School Marching Lancers were first in Outstanding Music for AAAA. The Salem Band is directed by John A. Randolph, Timberland by Courtney White, Mehlville by Tony Brown, and Rockwood Summit by Jeremy Loui. The competition on the EHS football field in the Sports Complex drew an estimated 4,000 spectators throughout

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From Illinois Business Journal:  Spectrum and Better Family Life gathered recently to highlight the impact of their Spectrum Community Center Assist partnership, which provided job training to more than 120 program participants, with more than 80 recipients getting local job placement in the past six months. In celebration of the progress, Spectrum announced Better Family Life […]

Despite all the economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, child poverty and uninsurance were at record lows last year, U.S. Census data show. And those lows are largely the …

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  During months of tough budget talks earlier this year, Webster Groves city officials remained resolute in their commitment to fund a more sustainable community. Last week, council members unanimously approved the first round of spending toward that end, authorizing purchase of the city’s first electric vehicles for the police department and the […]

Today on TAP: Tight money spreads from Washington to Frankfurt to the Global South, needlessly increasing hardship.

Metallica has announced the ticket details for the band's 2022 Helping Hands charity concert. The general public on-sale begins this Friday, September 23 at 10 a.m. PT, while members of…

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  At its meeting on Sept. 12, the County Council approved the acquisition and installation of a Smart Parking Management System for Historic Main Street and the county government areas. County staff at the meeting noted that the system will help manage about 2,000 parking spaces in and around Main Street St. […]

ST. LOUIS -  Branson has been named the best place for smallmouth bass fishing in the country. FishingBooker, the largest online platform for finding and booking fishing trips in the US, gathered data from tens of thousands of trips. They started collecting information on where different species of fish were caught 6.5 years ago. FishingBooker said [...]

Democrats said they supported marijuana legalization but had concerns about Amendment 3.