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There has been a push over the last few months by some pro-patent academics and (of course) the pharmaceutical industry to insist that high drug prices and high healthcare costs have nothing whatsoever to do with our broken patent system that grants drug and device makers a full on monopoly. That claim doesn’t just defy […]

Earlier this year we profiled Elizabeth Cooke, a tragic criminal mastermind — or, perhaps, social media mob victim. Seemingly everyone in St. Louis had strong feelings about Cooke after her story went viral last year, when a man whose truck she was attempting to steal began filming her. He then posted the video, as well as the much of the rest of her life, online.

Bretton DeLaria created fake invoices to defraud St. Louis University over a two-year period.

In this encore episode, Professor Rachel Greenwald Smith discusses her provocative new book of essays “On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal,” how she handles strange bedfellows and how her free-wheeling childhood left her wanting more.

They're creepy and they're kooky Mysterious and spooky They're all together ooky The Addams family ALTON - The Addams Family - the Alton High School Spring Musical - runs at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 28, Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30, at the Alton High School Theatre. The show is directed by long-time director Anne Davis. Davis made these statements about the production: "Oh, The Addams Family! They are so upside-down that to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. The family is really turned upside down when their daughter, Wednesday, falls in love with Lucas Beineke, a smart mid-Western boy from a normal, respectable Ohio family. Wednesday has invited the Beineke family to dinner to meet the Addams family In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations:

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on April 20, 2022.  Toyota said Tuesday it will invest $109 million in its cylinder-head plant in Troy, Missouri. The money will fund new equipment to build four-cylinder engine heads on three production lines, the company said. The 550,000-square-foot plant, in Lincoln County, currently has the capacity to annually build over […]

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Augusta Clothing Company is opening during the Plein Air Art Festival.

Statistics don’t have faces.   While statistics about the number of homeless veterans in the United States are staggering, they do not show the people

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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has premiered the video for his solo song, "High Plains Drifter." The animated clip begins with a car driving through a tunnel before crashing into another…

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"When it first opened, it was quiet, but in recent years it kids have been leaving and it's been a problem. I have many concerns," said Charceda Wiley, a neighbor.

This is the latest in a long list of recent escapes from youth facilities in St. Louis.

The man was shot in the jaw and the woman was shot in the shoulder. Both victims were taken to a local hospital.

A crash has closed West Florissant at Dargail Court.

A-B said it would write off $1.1 billion in assets related to the venture in its first quarter results.

For years, Missouri was known for its problem dog breeders. In this encore episode, advocates explain what changed after legislation cracked down on the industry — and where they still see room for improvement in the Show Me State.

The Florida Department of Education finally released a few examples of "unacceptable" math problems today. Here is one of them: So the lesson here is that conservatives are racist, as proven by a test that's of dubious reliability. Nice work, textbook people. This is insane. I can't imagine there's a conservative governor anywhere in the ...continue reading "Florida finally shows us some of their woke mathematics"

Peter Chafin fatally shot Dominic Smith four times with a shotgun on Sept. 1, 2015.

The world's largest brewer said it will sell its noncontrolling interest in its Russian joint venture, following the exit from Russia by other large brewers in response to Russia's war in Ukraine.