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The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where affluent media owners rushed to embrace automation and LLMs (usually to cut corners and undermine labor) with disastrous impact, resulting in lots of plagiarism, completely false headlines, and a giant, completely avoidable mess. Earlier this year, we […]

Friday in the area will be mostly cloudy and chilly, with a high of 35 and a low near 22. Winds will come from the north at around 8 to 14 mph. Rain chances are minimal, with just a slight chance of snow during the night. Through the day Friday, expect mostly cloudy skies with a slow warm-up after a very cold start. The afternoon will stay chilly, with a few hours of sunshine trying to peek through the clouds. Evening and overnight will bring mostly cloudy skies and continued cold conditions. Satur

September unemployment rates rose in 25 states and fell in 21 compared with last year, the government reported Dec. 11 in a shutdown-delayed analysis. The largest increase compared with September 2024 was in Oregon, where the rate rose from 4.2% to 5.2%, followed by the District of Columbia, increasing from 5.3% to 6.2% and Delaware, […]

Aisha Sultan writes: A few things that made a difficult year for my father a little easier.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A house fire on Bruce Street in Perryville has claimed the lives of two children, leaving a family in mourning. The Perryville Fire Department responded to the blaze shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday, where they found the children trapped on the second floor of the home. Firefighters battled heavy smoke to reach [...]

One person died and several others were injured in a multi-car crash on I-55 in south St. Louis early this morning, leading to the closure of I-55 for about three hours.

Health professionals are warning of the dangers of extreme cold temperatures and brutal wind chills this weekend, urging people to take precautions to avoid frostbite and hypothermia.

Light snow is expected to continue in northeastern Missouri and central Illinois through Saturday, with dangerous cold and single digit wind chills expected to arrive Saturday night into Sunday.

Westland Acres, named after a formerly enslaved man who bought and settled it 145 years ago, may finally have a viable plan to sell.

100 years ago in St. Louis, cold winter temperatures brought an annual blanket of thick smog. The air quality was so bad, St. Louis Public Radio’s Kate Grumke reports it planted the seeds for a famous Missouri institution.

Early in her career, Dr. Kanika Cunningham cared for a pregnant patient who didn’t know she had Hepatitis B when she went into labor. When the infection was discovered during delivery, Cunningham was able to treat the newborn and prevent the infection from spreading. “
It broke my heart because she was afraid to seek care […]

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Queen’s iconic #1 hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" has reached a new milestone on YouTube.The video for the 1975 song has just surpassed 2 billion views on the site, making it the oldest song to…

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Headlines from the Dec. 12, 1925, front page include: Suit planned to halt removal of cemetery

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