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From St. Louis Business Journal:  Aegion Corp., a Chesterfield-based infrastructure repair company, bought a Boston-based business that provides underground and vacuum excavation, among other services. Aegion said it has acquired Next Level Environmental, which also provides other services to manage aging infrastructure, including pipe inspections, trenchless cured-in-place pipe repairs, pipe location services, and sewer and […]

In the New York Times today, Maia Szalavitz writes about how Seattle finally tackled chronic homelessness. A few years ago Lisa Daugaard, a lawyer, developed a program called LEAD: Instead of re-incarcerating homeless people who typically already have long histories of minor arrests, police departments that participate in LEAD refer them to case management services. ...continue reading "Here’s how to get the hard-core homeless into homes"

Some are content with the plan while others question whether the amount is enough to address certain groups' needs.

"We all want to see a reduction in crime in the city," said Comptroller Darlene Green.

Homeless advocates in the St. Louis area are speaking out about the new rules of putting panhandlers on the sidewalk.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page says our child safety laws may need to be changed after the drowning death of a six-year-old at a local summer camp.

Cleaning air ducts is a dirty job, but Mitchell Stonebarger is well-equipped. In addition to dust and debris, Mitchell wants to dispose of deception in the air duct cleaning industry.

I love this story so much I want it to find other similar vulgar stories so that those stories can have little baby vulgar stories for me to read. You may recall the saga of Erik Brunetti, founder of FUCT, a fashion brand with a name supposedly standing for Friends U Can’t Trust. We wrote […]

East St. Louis residents are concerned about the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists along State Street after a man was killed in a hit and run.

According to court documents from the Missouri Supreme Court obtained by 5 On Your Side, Kevin Johnson will be put to death on Nov. 29.

A man has been charged Wednesday in connection with an attempted carjacking and a shooting outside a St. Louis Walgreen's that left a woman wounded.

Illinois State Police filed an emergency rule last week to preserve records that may contain complaints filed against someone considered a clear and present danger.

Two people are injured after a single-engine plane crashed at the Roosterville Airport near Liberty, Missouri.

Zamzama Safi has finished a book, traveled to Hawaii, applied for a master's program and one true American rite of passage: getting her driver's license.

Michael Stevens, 43, of Oran, Missouri pleaded guilty in May 2022 to coercion and enticement of a minor.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the Jerry F. Costello Lock on the Kaskaskia River to traffic on Friday bringing barge traffic to a halt.