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Ian Froeb's STL 100 lists his picks for the top restaurants in St. Louis. Here, we highlight the taco joints and Mexican restaurants from that list.

“The system is approaching a tipping point."

It’s the single biggest climate package in U.S. history.

Mark your calendar for tourney’s first toss on Sept. 9; and the competition runs through Sept. 11. A 50th birthday party will be the night of Sept. 8.

Summer is here, and live music is back! Join us every Tuesday evening through August 30 for a great mix of live music while you

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Authorities served a warrant for a high-profile drug bust Tuesday morning near Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

Inquiring minds want to know: Does Ben Poremba ever get tired? Since arriving on the St. Louis restaurant scene in 2008, the Bengelina Hospitality Group chef and owner has opened Salume Beddu, fine-dining spot Elaia and the Benevolent King. He's converted a service station to a Mediterranean/Israeli restaurant with Olio, opened and then closed Old Standard and Parigi, expanded the Elaia/Olio compound down Tower Grove Avenue with Nixta and AO&CO, launched children's store Honeycomb with Zoe Kaemmerer, created lifestyle brand B. Poremba Feinschmecker and released a fragrance with Saint Rita Parlor.

Bob Cassilly was a St. Louis original. The Vianney and Fontbonne University grad is known as the creative force behind the iconic City Museum. His legacy is more than the popular downtown destination and runs well beyond the mundane.

Alex E. Callier IV was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and evidence tampering in the shooting death of his cousin, Decorion Wilson.

GRAFTON - A flood exercise is planned at 9 a.m. on Thursday, November 3, at Grafton City Hall, located at 118 E. Main St. in Grafton. Grafton Mayor Mike Morrow said the goal of this flood exercise is to test the city’s flood preparedness and go over their updated emergency response plans with state and local officials, who will also be present at the exercise. “It’s going to be held in our big area where we do our meetings. We’re going to have city personnel there that typically operate in a flood, we’re going to have the county personnel here and there will be some state people here also,” Morrow said. “The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is going to be running the exercise.” Morrow said when he first took office, one of his top priorities was updating Grafton’s emergency management plans, as the portions of it that had been written down were spotty at best. Not only have they gotten the entire emergency plan in writing,

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As the U.S. government expands incentives for renewable energy, a decision by the Missouri Supreme Court is moving the state in the opposite direction by halting a solar energy tax break that has been on the books for nearly a decade.

James T. Minor, who took over as chancellor in March, said the university has to be intentional in making its presence seen more widely in its home city of Edwardsville and across the Metro East. Here's how he plans to do it.

A splinter group of Republicans held up action in the Senate this spring.

An argument over a debt turned deadly shooting over the weekend in north St. Louis County.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed his party’s signature climate, health care and tax package into law Tuesday, capping off more than a year of tumultuous negotiations that saw his original proposal to Congress slimmed down considerably. Flanked by a handful of Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and […]

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