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Prosecutors on Thursday refused to file first-degree murder charges against an 18-year-old man in connection to a St. Louis man’s death in November.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department is working to combat vaping in schools, but it's not just nicotine vaping. In some cases, it's marijuana vaping.

“She said 'Well, it’s your word against the driver,'” said Johnson. “If you don’t have any proof or video or witness, it’s your word against theirs.”

Historically, “smart” TVs aren’t always particularly smart. They’ve routinely been shown to have lax security and privacy standards. They also routinely feature embedded OS systems that don’t age well, aren’t always well designed, don’t perform particularly well over time, are slathered with ads, and are usually worse than most third-party game streaming devices or video […]

A constitutional amendment asking Missourians to let lawmakers decide year-to-year whether the state will offer Medicaid to working-age adults moved closer to passage on Wednesday. By an 8-5 vote, the Senate Appropriations …

Kick off your weekend at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park! Each Thursday Night at the Museum will be the most fun, engaging, uplifting, thought-provoking, perspective-shaping night

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Sixty-four years ago this week, Bob Pettit led the St. Louis Hawks to NBA greatness.

A 26-year-old Festus man has been accused of driving around in a van and attempting to lure young girls into his vehicle.

The planned grocery has been in the works for nearly five years, and was the subject of a dispute. The company's leader played down the spat Thursday, and said he'd open another store in the city.

The price of kitchen staples like milk, flour and butter are all up.

Brandon Reid already has two cats, but he wanted to get a dog. So he decided to go apartment hunting.

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Police on Thursday released the name of a woman whose body was found wrapped in linens last week in north St. Louis.

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New York City Hall is out of line in demanding information about the criminal backgrounds and open cases of journalists applying for press credentials.

Freedom of the Press Foundation was among the chorus of voices calling for press credentialing authority to be removed from the New York Police Department in 2020. That necessary change was passed by New York's City Council last year, moving the authority to the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.

But the mayor's office, now tasked with this role, has imposed new and unjustified hurdles in the process, a practice reported last week by New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. The rule for the first time requires applicants to provide information about felony convictions or any “open case for a lawful arrest for a misdemeanor while newsgathering.”

That last line is especially egregious, given that our call for a revamped press credentialing process followed well-documented incidents of journalists being improperly arrested at protests. According to our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, 13 journalists have been arrested or detained while reporting in New York City since 2020.

City Hall reportedly emphasized to Intelligencer that the rules were implemented before Mayor Eric Adams took office in January. Regardless, this is Adams’ mess to clean up. And people will be watching especially closely, given his longstanding ties to the NYPD. (Adams was a New York City police officer for more than two decades before beginning his political career.)

Moving the press credentialing away from the police was a necessary step, but ensuring that the process is conducted fairly and with appropriate respect for press freedom requires more. As a key stakeholder in the lawmaking process put it, this implementation goes against the intent of the lawmakers who fought to move the credentialing process:

Keith Powers, the council member who sponsored the law, said he was caught by surprise by how [the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment] interpreted its new authority. “I was not aware of this rule in the application process, and think it should be removed to uphold the intention of Local Law 46,” he said in a statement.

Others have threatened to take the mayor's office to court over this new guideline. We urge the agency to do the right thing and remove these criteria from their application.

Someone is $100,000 richer after buying a winning scratch-off ticket at a Missouri gas station.

A man is in police custody after striking a pedestrian with his car and then leaving the scene.

The daughter of a man who died in a road rage incident is suing Joshua O'Keefe, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and O'Keefe's wife.