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For "Best Friends Day," Budweiser is honoring the iconic duo of Wainwright and Molina as they approach an all-time baseball record.

New satellite data shows that in many coastal cities around the world, land is subsiding even faster than sea level is rising.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the Stray Cats' debut U.S. album, Built for Speed. The 12-track collection, which remains the rockabilly trio's most successful album to…

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A previously undisclosed memo to the Education Department offers a step-by-step guide to closing predatory schools before they suck up more federal loans.

The party needs to turn out the suburbs and shore up its urban base. Republican anti-abortion extremism might help.

The U.S. position at a key WTO meeting on intellectual-property waivers for COVID vaccines will reveal which side Joe Biden is on.

Anna Maria von Phul was the earliest known woman artist working in what was then called the Missouri Territory. Born in Philadelphia and raised largely in Kentucky, she spent her last half-decade in and around St. Louis. Her artwork illustrates life in the Missouri Territory during the 1810s and 1820s, including the people, culture, architecture, …

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GODFREY - Godfrey Public Safety Administrator Chris Sichra is advising motorists to pre-plan for a temporary detour this week starting at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, on Wenzel Road. Following a previous delay so that a utility company could complete another project at the same location on Wenzel last month, Godfrey Public Works has rescheduled the culvert project and will be closing Wenzel Road to “thru traffic” at Roach Road and at Seiler Road beginning Wednesday morning, 6/8/22 (for tree removal) then will close again Thursday 6/9/22 to begin the actual project. Wenzel will remain closed for approximately two (2) weeks with an expected reopening on Friday 6/17/22. Local residents on Wenzel will still have access to their homes. The repair project will be focused on replacing a drainage culvert that runs under Wenzel Road near the Fosterburg Water Tank. Sichra states that local first responder agencies and mutual aid companies (Fire, Police, EMS) as well as local

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What follows was my fourteenth post on the website, 40 South News.  It first appeared on January  6, 2014.  In the first few lines, I was worrying about running out of material.  I shouldn’t have.  This is post number 386 and I’m not done yet. DH For a bit longer than 4 ½ years, I […]

George Wilkerson of Collinsville, IL joined the Real Rock Army today

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LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or

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According to an incident report, the shooting happened Sunday night at around 10 p.m. near the Salisbury Street exit of Westbound I-70.

A 62-year-old St. Louis man died Monday when his car hit an International Harvester farm vehicle that was stopped in the road, police said.

From the Metro East to St. Charles County, regional health leaders are asking people to get their guard up as COVID-19 cases rise.

A chimpanzee whose death had been faked was found and rescued this past weekend by an animal rights group and U.S. Marshals. It involves the ongoing dispute over chimpanzees that you’ve seen in our FOX Files reports.

At least 10 St. Louis aldermen have called for Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed to resign as of early Monday night following Reed's federal indictment on bribery charges last week.

“Defund the police!” people shouted as cops continued to kill unarmed black people in ways that went far past “subjectively defensive” into “objectively racist.” Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for ten minutes, personifying 300 years of white oppression of black people. Floyd died, suspected of nothing more than […]

COVID cases are on the rise again in St. Louis, putting the city and county in the CDC’s “red zone” just as summer is getting underway. Health experts are now asking people to go back to being cautious and proactive.