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The newspaper manager joined the Post-Dispatch as editorial page editor in 2007, and took the paper's top job five years later.

The dogs will be checked out and given medical treatment when they arrive in St. Louis. They will eventually be available for adoption.

Both of the teenagers were conscious and breathing when officers found them.

Snow was already starting to cover some roads in northeastern Missouri Tuesday evening.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker have declared states of emergency ahead of the winter storm this week. The Missouri National Guard and Illinois National Guard were activated to help with storm response. In Illinois, Pritzker said the response will include more than 1,800 IDOT trucks and equipment, ISP patrols to help stranded motorists and the state's emergency response team will be operating around the clock. In Missouri, Parson said the State Emergency Operations Center…

From grocery store workers to first responders, some people can't work from home in a snow storm. In St. Charles County, they'll be staffed up to help the public.

Businesses have to have someone to call on when snow hits. That's why private snow removal crews are on standby and prepared to respond.

Council adds consumer protections to the Property Assessed Clean Energy Program.

The last day of production will be March 31.

The Wentzville School Board made the decision to ban "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison in January.

Last night at midnight, we reached the end of Gaming Like It's 1926, our fourth annual public domain game jam celebrating the new works that entered the public domain this year. At final count, we got 31 entries representing a huge variety of different kinds of digital and analog games!

For the next couple of weeks, we'll be digging into all the games and selecting the winners in our six categories — but there's no need to wait before playing! You can check out all the entries on itch.io:

At first glance (and having poked around in a couple of the early entries) I can already tell it's going to be tough to narrow these down to just six winners — there are lots of games here that do fun and interesting things with public domain works. As in past years, once we've selected and announced the winners we'll discuss each one in detail in a podcast and a series of posts.

Until then, a huge thanks to everyone who participated this year, and also to everyone who takes some time to play the games and give these designers the attention they deserve!

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MACOUPIN COUNTY - The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis has announced it has disbanded at this time and has turned the investigation of an elderly woman's death in Bunker Hill over to the Macoupin County Sheriff's Office. The Major Case squad said Tuesday afternoon it is "highly unlikely" the death of Nancy Blycker was "due to homicidal means." Blycker, 91, was found deceased in the 2900 block of Wood Lane in Bunker Hill on Monday morning. "The Major Case Squad has revealed no additional evidence to significantly contradict this finding," Lt. Mike O'Neil, deputy commander of the Major Case Squad said. "The official cause of death is pending further laboratory analysis." "Please see our final press release pertaining to our Macoupin County investigation," the deputy commander added. "At this time, the Major Case Squad is making preparations to disband this activation."

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Cain has been the superintendent with Wentzville for nine years, so he says the switch to Rockwood wasn't an easy decision to make.