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ST. LOUIS - A new $3.2 million dollar early childhood education center is opening Sunday in St. Louis. A ribbon cutting ceremony is planned later in the day. The Good Shepherd Preschool & Infant-Toddler Center is designed to host 100 children. It's funded by IFF, a community development financial institution. The 7,031 square foot state-of-the-art facility will include [...]

The football team received $1,500. The Pom Squad received $500.

LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or

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The management change comes as Waste Connection faces driver and equipment shortages.

Hundreds of people filed into the Fieldhouse at Mineral Area College on Saturday to pay their respects to Bonne Terre police Officer Lane Burns.

Elysecia Temple, 33, is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds, police said.

Lawyers for the family of Tyre Sampson, a rising middle school football player in St. Louis County, want to know if negligence about his size, or other factors, played a role when he fell to his death Thursday night from…

Officer Lane Burns was remembered Saturday at his funeral, which brought mourning police departments from across the country.

ELLISVILLE, Mo.-- Saturday afternoon fire engines and exotic cars were parked outside the Ellisville Elks Lodge. Friends and family gathering to honor the life of Ben Poulson. “First off Ben was loved to death,” says Mark Polson, Ben's uncle said. “Second off St. Louis supports their people. They’re here to support and everything they’re doing here [...]

St. Louis police identified the child who fatally shot her cousin before shooting herself in what the children's family is calling an accidental shooting.

Lawmaker says he initiated a meeting with marijuana lobby in effort to stop them from trying to kill his legalization bill.

EDWARDSVILLE - Woodland Elementary School special education teacher Kelly Baird was in grade school when they used to let the sixth, seventh and eighth graders help with kindergartners and first graders during recess. “I really enjoyed that and decided I wanted to be a teacher.” At the same time, PL94-142 had passed and special education was coming into being. “I thought that sounded even better. The more I learned, the more I thought special education was for me.” When Baird began at District #7 30 years ago, her mentor teacher was a communications disorder teacher. “She was amazing! I learned so much about how language affects everything we do. Then I got to work with two girls who were on the Autism spectrum (although not yet diagnosed), and I was fascinated by how their minds work.” Baird had opportunities to attend workshops and learn even more about Autism. “I knew these were my people! I’ve been in love with that population

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