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Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025

1 day 23 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due to President Donald Trump’s aggressive revocation of legal immigration. It’s the most rapid loss in legal status for immigrants in recent United States history, experts in immigration […]
Ariana Figueroa

Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services

2 days ago
Twenty-year-old Mikayla Foreman knows her experience is meaningful. Dealing with homelessness since 18 and currently living in a shelter, Foreman has managed to continue her academic journey, studying for exams this month in hopes of attaining a nursing degree. But Foreman believes there were intervention points that could’ve prevented her from experiencing homelessness in the […]
Robbie Sequeira

Today's Weather: Becoming Warmer With Intermittent Clouds

2 days ago
This morning starts clear with a cool 44 degrees. The sun will make appearances through intermittent clouds as the day warms up to a high of 61 in the afternoon. Winds will come from the west-northwest at 7 to 15 mph gusts, adding a bit of briskness. Evening brings mostly cloudy skies with temperatures dropping toward the low 40s. Overnight, expect the clouds to stick around with lows near 40, and light winds from the east-northeast at around 7 to 10 mph. Tomorrow will see temperatures holding

New federal regulations complicate Missouri debate over intoxicating hemp

2 days ago
Businesses and Missouri lawmakers are scrambling to understand what will happen in November, when new federal limits on intoxicating hemp products go into effect. It’s unclear just how proactive the federal government will be enforcing the new restrictions. Will it clamp down, or like it has with marijuana, look the other way as states enact […]
Rebecca Rivas

Fund Grants $10,000 in Maplewood: Press release

2 days ago
Press release: Maplewood, December 2022, 2025 – The Maplewood Community Fund is proud to announce the completion of its first-ever grant cycle—an important milestone for this new local nonprofit and a powerful demonstration of what a caring community can accomplish together. In its inaugural round of granting, the Fund awarded $10,000 to directly support Maplewood […]
Doug Miner

Mayor Spencer announces two appointments to cabinet

2 days 1 hour ago
ST. LOUIS - City of St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer announced two newly appointed cabinet members Monday evening. St. Louis native Brian Light is fulfilling the role as Director of Personnel, which oversees filling job vacancies, promotions, and advertising throughout the city's 4,000-person workforce. He joins the cabinet after spending more than 24 years in [...]
Megan Mueller

How 13 million pounds of hazardous powder wound up in an abandoned Missouri warehouse

2 days 1 hour ago
Trucks filled with 66 tons of hazardous material left Yazoo City, Mississippi, on Oct. 30, 2013. Full of sacks containing plastic dust contaminated with lead, cadmium and chromium, the trucks made their way to the outskirts of Berger, Missouri, a town of 250 people along the Missouri River. The next day brought another 85 tons. […]
Ceilidh Kern, Harshawn Ratanpal

Missouri’s search for meaning

2 days 1 hour ago
Growing up in Missouri in the 1980s, the Show Me State meant something. We built America’s cars. We brewed America’s beer. We even had America’s best baseball teams. Missouri was a bellwether state. If you wanted to know what was happening in the country, Missouri could show you. But my home state, once proudly independent, […]
Eric Morse

Tuesday, Dec. 23 - A Grand transformation

2 days 1 hour ago
A hub of arts activity grows on Grand Center’s eastern edge, after the Kranzberg Arts Foundation spent $50 million dollars repurposing old buildings there. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin reports, the nonprofit says it has set the stage, and now it’s time for more public and private dollars to take a leading role.