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According to SLCPD, this childcare center for officers is the first in the St. Louis region.

Frehley, 74, was on life support earlier in the day Thursday, TMZ reported.

A safety campaign that originated in Missouri continues to grow into dozens of states across the country.

WOOD RIVER — The Wood River Fire Department announced a change to the route for the annual Halloween parade scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 25, due to ongoing sewer separation work on Wood River Avenue. The parade will begin as planned at 6th Street Park and proceed south on 6th Street, then turn west onto Ferguson Avenue. Instead of continuing on the usual path along Wood River Avenue, the parade will turn north on 1st Street from Ferguson Avenue and conclude at the intersection of 1st Street and Carringer Avenue. The pickup area at the end of the parade will remain at the Roundhouse parking lot. Other sections of the parade route will remain unchanged. Organizers encourage participants and spectators to review the updated map and share the information to help spread the word. Registration for parade entries remains open at www.woodriver.org.

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From St. Louis Public Radio: Earlier this month, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe spoke in front of a crowd at an annual summit on power held by the state’s Public Service Commission in Jefferson City. Data centers dominated his remarks. “Big talk seems to always come back to data centers, which is a piece of the […]

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

From St. Louis Review: Ava Stillman stretched her measuring tape down the length of a 2×4, using a speed square tool to carefully mark where to make her cut. She needed a solid jack stud to support the header of the window she was framing out. Clad in work boots and safety glasses, this was […]

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Metro Transit is rolling out new technology aimed at making rides smoother, faster, and more secure.

As the Missouri Department of Transportation conducts winter weather drills on the roads, it warns about challenges in construction zones for snowplows.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County Police Department detectives are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred Thursday afternoon, Oct. 16, 2025, at the intersection of St. Charles Rock Road and North Hanley Road. Officers from the Central County Precinct responded at 1:43 p.m. to reports of a collision involving a passenger vehicle and a motorcycle. The motorcycle driver was transported to a local hospital but was later pronounced dead. The driver of the passenger vehicle was also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The deceased has been identified as Michael Parks, 40 years of age, of the 1800 block of Korando Avenue, Overland, MO. The Bureau of Crimes Against Persons and Accident Reconstruction detectives are actively investigating the incident. Authorities have not released additional details regarding the cause of the crash. Anyone with information about the crash is urged to contact the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Troubled by clashes between agents and the public, a judge on Thursday said she will require federal immigration officers in the Chicago area to wear body cameras, and she also summoned a senior official to court next week to discuss an enforcement operation that has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests. U.S. [...]

From KMOV: The City of Cottleville is weighing whether to put a six-month moratorium on certain residential development proposals, giving the city time to work on its comprehensive plan. The city said the plan hasn’t been updated since 2001 and according to U.S. census data, its population has tripled in the last 20 years and […]

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A crash outside a Town and Country pub earlier this week escalated into a disturbance during which two people, including an off-duty officer, were punched.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud-computing provider, is hiring construction project managers for a major data center development in the St. Louis region — signaling continued momentum for high-tech infrastructure investment and union construction work in the metro area. The job postings on Amazon’s careers site list openings for Construction Manager and Senior […]

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If approved, residents could vote on an amendment to the city charter in April that would require elections before the City Council could sell park property.

From St. Louis Magazine: When Steve Smith, CEO of the development firm New + Found, thinks about the data center proposed for Midtown St. Louis, he can’t help but think of a previous plan for a different site that’s directly adjacent, the 15 acres that now hold City Foundry. A development firm wanted to tear […]

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GLEN CARBON – Glen Carbon residents are set to pay more for their sewer service starting next year. The Village Board of Trustees this week unanimously approved annual increases to the service charge and usage fees for sewer service supplied by the village. The first increase will take effect on Jan. 1, 2026, with additional annual increases each year through 2030. Residents currently pay a $5.50 monthly sewer service charge. This will be raised to $6 per month in 2026, followed by annual 50 cent increases each year until 2030 with a monthly rate of $8. The village’s current usage fee of $8 per 1,000 gallons is also increasing to $9.60 in 2026 before rising by 30 cents annually to $10.80 in 2030. Customers outside village limits will also see their annual sewer service charges increase by 50 cents as their usage fees rise by 20 cents per year over the same time period until 2030. Tap-on fees to connect new customers will also increase from $2,725 to $3,500 for new single-family

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