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ST. LOUIS - Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) has once again been Certified™ by Great Place to Work ® , a prestigious award earned solely due to positive employee feedback. Great Place to Work defines a great workplace as one where the employees trust the company and its leadership, have pride in their roles, and like their co-workers. This year, Ameren once again significantly ranked higher than the average U.S. company. "Earning a Great Place to Work Certification identifies Ameren as one of the best companies to work for in the country," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the result of a company's ongoing dedication to its employees, and it's only earned through employees' reports on company culture." "We're honored to once again have earned this distinguished certification because it really comes from our employees," said Mark Lindgren, senior vice president, corporate communications and chief human resources officer

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Cynthia Albritton, who as Cynthia Plaster Caster became famous for immortalizing the genitalia of male musicians in plaster, has died, Variety reports. She was 74. Albritton started her career in…

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A key Missouri legislator upset with Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s aggressive campaign of lawsuits against local governments and school districts cut $500,000 from Schmitt’s budget on Wednesday. Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman …

The St. Charles County Police Department shared the update Friday morning.

Just under 15 years ago, a group of people banded together hoping to play some music and do some good. Kansas City musician Abigail Henderson, 31, had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. To support her, her friends did what musicians do; they rallied together to play a show. The group put together a three-day […]

The post ‘Think of music as a nutrient:’ How a Kansas City nonprofit helps artists keep playing appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Roy will be presented with the annual award at Sheldon Concert Hall on April 28.

A Lincoln County man who lost his wife in a car accident on Hwy 61 supports increased patrols.

When Jamie and Steve Komorek opened Trattoria Marcella (3600 Watson Road, 314-352-7706) in 1995, they were insistent on being a different kind of Italian restaurant — a more traditional eatery as opposed to the St. Louis-style Italian spots on the Hill that the city's diners had come to associate with the cuisine. To signal that intent, they left a certain dish off the menu that showed just how serious they were about standing apart from the crowd. "We didn't do toasted ravioli," Jamie says.

The Blues will take on the Coyotes in a preseason game. The "Frozen Face Off" will be the first time the NHL has made an appearance in Wichita.

"If we build this business environment in the neighborhoods in and around north St. Louis, everybody wins," Aldermanic President Lewis Reed said.

Across the country, attitudes toward cannabis are becoming more permissive and accepting, but partisan gridlock in Congress virtually ensures that legislation to decriminalize marijuana will languish and die in the U.S. Senate. Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE) by a narrow 220-204 margin.  The […]

The post Federal attempts to legalize marijuana flail, even as public support grows appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Nadine Soaib, who previously ran Nadine’s Gin Joint, will open the restaurant in the space formerly occupied by Billie’s Fine Foods.

The shooting was reported at 12:45 a.m. Friday in the 4300 block of North Bircher Boulevard.

More than 1,000 teams have registered for the contest so far.

We’ve noted several times how the Trump FCC spent four years being little more than a giant rubber stamp for the nation’s biggest telecom monopolies. That included rubber stamping mergers before even reading the details, gutting FCC consumer protection authority, and demolishing decades-old media consolidation rules crafted with broad bipartisan consensus. The Trump GOP and Congress killed efforts […]

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is recommending residents stop using bird feeders and baths until the end of May due to an influenza strain that is impacting wild and domestic birds.