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Road rage leads to one man shooting a taxi driver Monday afternoon in north St. Louis.

A date hasn't yet been set for the 2026 event at Bellerive, but it will take place in August officials said.

A plan to bring affordable high-speed internet to underserved communities has frozen.

CARROLLTON - A detailed history of Abraham Lincoln’s experiences and connections in Greene County is scheduled for release this fall. Acclaimed writer Tom Emery of Carlinville is releasing Lincoln in Greene County, Illinois, which features a wide variety of stories on the sCarrixteenth President in Greene County, many of which have never been covered. The book is slated for release and distribution in September. This fast-moving, illustrated, documented work analyzes the ties of Lincoln to some of the earliest names of Greene County history, including friendships with Jacob Fry, Edward Baker, C.M. Smith, and David Woodson, as well as political relationships with prosecutor Josiah Lamborn and members of the Carlin family. Lincoln’s speaking appearances in Carrollton are also discussed, as are voting records and the county’s reaction to his assassination. The role of Greene County in Lincoln’s near-duel at Alton in 1842 is examined, as are his court cases in th

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A decade or so ago you couldn’t go even a week without a major U.S. cable company finding its technicians in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. You’d routinely see technicians that fall asleep on the job, blow up homes, occasionally murder people and get arrested for torturing and spray painting kittens (seriously). And while major U.S. cable companies have […]

An investigation is underway after two men were killed in a pair of separate St. Louis shootings Monday afternoon.

Home builders said the housing market is in a recession.

The botanical-inspired Plant Magic! Oracle Deck is now available for preorder on the artist's website.

A federal judge sentenced Antonio J. Naylor for a gun crime in connection with the September 2020 killing of Terrell Scott Sr.

This refurbished EliteBook from HP pairs a fast processor with 8GB of RAM to help make multitasking easier, and its speedy 256 solid-state drive can house your essential media, games, and other data. It also features three USB ports so you can make the most of your system by expanding it with peripheral devices. This […]

In south city’s Ellendale neighborhood, almost all the homes on Hermitage Avenue are condemned, leaving residents displaced. Hermitage backs up to the River Des Peres and amid late July's unprecedented rainfall, the houses on the street were some of the worst-hit in an area that saw widespread damage. Residents at the time told the RFT water inundated their homes, geysers sprouted from manholes in the street and one man had to wade through neck-deep sewage with his kids on his shoulders to get them to safety.

While segregation was still casting its ugly shadow over the U.S., the Homer G. Phillips Hospital was providing top-notch medical care to a predominantly African American part of St. Louis and training some of the world's best Black doctors and nurses.

About 3,450 students will need to use alternate transportation.

Ben Friedman is unhappy about the Washington Post's deep dive into President Biden's influence during the runup to the Ukraine war: The Post just can't keep this kind of credibility voodoo / domino theory out of news stories.https://t.co/lFdlv17ji6 pic.twitter.com/7p8DFO5DGo — Ben Friedman (@BH_Friedman) August 16, 2022 It's worth noting first that the Post story clearly ...continue reading "We spent 20 years in Afghanistan and it’s supposed to show weakness that we finally got out?"

More help is coming this week for flood victims.

ST. LOUIS - Over 10,000 hellbenders have now been released into area rivers as a part of a conservation effort by the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Saint Louis Zoo, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Saint Louis Zoo started raising and releasing endangered Ozark and eastern hellbenders into the wild in 2008. [...]

Data broker accused of violating Illinois’ privacy law.

Burton, 55, spent the last eight years as a member of “The Rizzuto Show” on KPNT (107.7 FM). He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2021.

A check of a suspicious vehicle in rural Phelps County led to the arrest of two men on drug charges.

In one of the biggest animal hoarding cases ever discovered in Illinois, officials rescued nearly 200 dogs from a home in Sherrard over the weekend.