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Drug overdose deaths in Missouri increased by 19% from 2019 to 2020, data shows. A total of 1,878 lives were lost to drugs in 2020 — the highest number on record.

They used social media, tips, and surveillance videos to identify them.

The Wine & Cheese Place said it will open its planned new retail concept, Spirit Wine & Craft, in the Southampton neighborhood on May 24. A soft opening is planned this weekend.

Gov. Mike Parson signed the bill revising the boundaries of Missouri’s eight congressional districts Wednesday afternoon, officially ending the most contentious legislative battle of the year. The revised districts have already led to one candidate, state Rep. Sara Walsh of Ashland, withdrawing from her campaign for the open 4th District seat. Walsh on Monday lamented […]

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is asking a state court to shutter a St. Louis mover over claims it refused to provide agreed-upon services unless consumers paid "significantly more" than estimates. Schmitt's petition, in St. Louis County Circuit Court, identifies Ibrahim Secic as the top defendant, as well as 10 other individuals and four companies: United Relocation Movers, Eagle Eye Moving, Elite Moving and Storage and Road to Load Best Movers. The other defendants in the case are Enes…

St. Louis officials will launch a nationwide search for a new police chief now that Metropolitan Police Chief John Hayden is set to retire on June 18. An interim chief will take his place in the meantime. On Wednesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones and Director of Public Safety Dan Isom announced Lt. Col. Michael Sack will serve has Hayden’s replacement until a permanent chief can be found, though Sack is not out of the running to permanently replace Hayden.

Here's a squirrel poking its head above the grass to see if there's anything worth seeing. It was taken along Laguna Canyon Road.

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office announced this afternoon that two teenagers and a 20-year-old have each been charged with 21 counts of property damage and one count of stealing a firearm — all felony charges. The charges against Kyle Buchanan, 18, Darryl Muldrow, 18, and Deandre Thomas, 20, stem from a series of car break-ins that happened on February 6 at the Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital and the National Health Care Corporation, both in Maryland Heights. According to a probable cause statement from a detective with the Maryland Heights Police Department, video surveillance footage shows two men breaking car windows on the National Health Care Corporation parking lot while a third man waits in a dark-colored Nissan Altima.

A Maryland Heights-based provider of design and contracting services has made a switch in its top management.

Police said the car was stopped next to a concrete light pole, but it did not look like the car had struck the light pole.

Last week a bizarre one-line order from the Fifth Circuit lifted the injunction on Texas’s social media law, allowing it to go into effect, despite all the massive problems with it – including the extent to which it violates the First Amendment and Section 230. So NetChoice and CCIA filed an emergency application with the […]

America’s love for home delivery coupled with continuing pressure throughout the supply chain have companies scrambling for more space to store their products and fulfill orders. That’s been great news for industrial warehouse property owners and investors across St. Louis, where vacancy rates sit at a historic low of 2.7%. By the end of the year, the real estate services firm JLL predicts St. Louis will set a record with 8 million to 10 million square feet of industrial property absorption. The…

The Great Godfrey Corn Maze is the site of one of the most popular fall-time traditions in the St. Louis region. Starting this autumn, it's getting a new twist.

A new Alice Cooper action figure celebrating the shock rocker's memorable early-1970s look and his band's classic 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies has been released by the Super7 toy company…

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The office of Gov. Mike Parson announced he would hold a signing ceremony for the redistricting legislation Wednesday afternoon.

Today on TAP: Public opinion does not support racist killings. Joe Biden needs to hold Republicans accountable, by name.

Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is still not yet achieved. American society …

Favazz interviews Lyonel Gammon from the Law Tigers about Sturgis 2022… The 82nd Sturgis Rally! This year 2 winners will score more than $90k in prizes including Harley Baggers at...

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