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St. Louis faces multiple days of “locally dangerous heat” from Friday through Sunday, joining large swaths of the country — and globe — that continue to swelter.

Discount grocer Aldi has reopened a north St. Louis County location after a renovation.

Nearly one in five American adults say they suffer some type of mental health concern. Approximately 75 percent of post-9/11 veterans and active-duty service members say they have experienced post-traumatic stress due to their military service. I have seen evidence of this first-hand.

St. Louis County Library locations are temporarily serving as cooling centers during this extreme weather.

Amazon said its first EVs built by Rivian Automotive Inc. in Normal, Illinois, could be seen Thursday in several major U.S. cities.

Locally, the concept is still bubbling and boiling.

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Neighboring homes were on fire in Cahokia Heights, Illinois Friday morning. The fire started at a home on Lauralee Drive at about 6:30 a.m. FOX 2's Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX helicopter flew over the scene. The roof was covered in flames for a time. The home next door caught fire at [...]

The latest event stretched over almost three hours and featured two key live witnesses, Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews, both of whom resigned from Trump’s administration on the day of the riot, as well as a plethora of new details.

Lawrence J. Krumrey's kayak overturned on the Meramec River in Franklin County, downstream of the River Round access.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. - A Chesterfield man drowned Thursday on the Meramec River in Franklin County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Lawrence Krumrey, 65, was kayaking downstream at about 10:45 a.m. when his kayak capsized and he went underwater. MSHP said he never resurfaced. He was removed from the water by a friend. Krumrey [...]

Donald Trump ignored White House staff, family members and outside advisers who urged the president to call off the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to testimony before the U.S. House panel investigating the insurrection at its eighth and final hearing of the summer Thursday night. Instead, Trump sat in the […]

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Jay Greenberg is the new head of the FBI’s St. Louis office in May. He arrives about a year after Missouri severely limited the ability of local law enforcement to work with his agents on gun crimes.

The owners of Vacancy Gallery will host a grand opening celebration from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

This story was originally published by the Missouri Independent. Whether Missouri voters will get a chance to legalize recreational marijuana in November is still in question. The latest incomplete tabulations from Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office, obtained under a Sunshine Law request, show the Legal Missouri 2022 initiative is short of the necessary signatures in four of the six Congressional districts necessary to make the ballot.

With their convenience and high-powered, brain-scrambling effects, cannabis concentrates have seen significant uptake across the industry in recent years, and with good reason. In my experience, straying outside the boundaries of toking flower usually results in the sessions that have the most memorable stories.