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Jabs traded at separate press conferences Thursday afternoon were the latest sign of an increasingly bitter fight between the city and its state-controlled police department.

Medication abortion will be available in Missouri for the first time since 2018 after a judge determined most of the state’s abortion regulations are unconstitutional.

St. Louis' biggest party ran for seven months and was such a success it even made money. But, no, the ice cream cone wasn't invented there.

When the state-run Board of Police Commissioners on Wednesday boosted pay for police brass, it tripped a provision in the city charter mandating police and firefighters of similar rank receive equal pay.

Freedom for enslaved people in Texas was announced more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had already declared them free. That gap is the heart of Juneteenth, and it explains why the holiday is not only about celebration, but also about delay, struggle, and the unfinished work of making freedom real. Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, the day Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved African Americans in the state were free. For many

On June 19, one of the most significant events in modern history is the end of slavery in the United States being publicly enforced in Texas in 1865, a moment now remembered as Juneteenth. More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that slavery had ended. At the time, this mattered because it turned a legal declaration into lived reality for many people

After months of renovations, the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the Saint Louis Science Center is set to reopen July 18.

On This Day, June 19, 2020…Bob Dylan released his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, which peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and went to #1…

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The water department has bled employees for months, public works director Chris Krueger said. Some of them went to JL Contracting, the company now being paid by Kirkwood.

The National Museum of Transportation is proud to announce a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of historic Route 66. Titled “Roads, River, Rooms, and Reels,” the exhibit will open […]

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UPDATE: The missing person returned home safely, according to the St. Louis County Police Department. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - An Endangered Persons Advisory was issued Friday morning for a missing man in St. Louis County.