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To accommodate his growing family, a second-generation steel manufacturer scoured the greater St. Louis region in the early 1980s looking for the right amount of space to build a perfect home.

Bag Phones, Brick Phones, Blackberries, a Satellite Phone and more – these are some of the cellular telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone

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Twenty years after it first hit airwaves, local producers and artists look back on the album that made Nelly a superstar.

Painting, sculpture and installation so often are what we think of when picturing the visual art that lines museum walls. But prints, and other works on paper such as photographs and drawings, are quiet gems that often go underappreciated.

Heavy flames are coming through a home in east St. Louis that caught fire early Friday morning.

For more than a decade, cable and broadcast executives brushed aside the threat of cable TV “cord cutting” (ditching traditional cable TV) as either a nonexistent threat or a temporary phenomenon. There were endless reports about how these users were poor and unimportant (they weren’t), or how the phenomenon would end once Millennials bought homes and […]

The financial future of Hazelwood is hanging on by a thread. The north St. Louis County community may be facing bankruptcy. The financial woes have been building for years and the mayor says the city may not be able to sustain things much longer. On Wednesday, Mayor Matthew Robinson posted a letter to residents. It says without voter or judicial relief, a Chapter 9 bankruptcy of Missouri's 26th largest city and the seventh largest city in St. Louis County may be inevitable. This letter shed some…

Updated with comments from businesses involved. A three-alarm fire Friday morning at 392 N. Euclid Ave. has damaged two businesses and displaced one family. The fire started just before 2:30 a.m. Friday. Fire Captain Garon Mosby with the St. Louis Fire Department said a Salt + Smoke barbecue and a Mission Taco sustained damage on the first floor of the building. The Salt + Smoke was severely damaged, Mosby said. Both restaurant groups told KSDK they're trying to figure out what's next. "It's…

Our dining editor identifies some dos and don'ts.

Dan Bryan is on a mission to play catch with a different person every day for a year in memory of his son Ethan. Next up: First pitch at Friday's Cardinals game.

Screaming Eagle Development wants to convert the former school to 62 apartments, equally divided between market-rate rents and affordable housing rates.

As theater companies try to keep performing in a time of high community spread of the coronavirus, leaders of small organizations say they are much more vulnerable to cancelations they can't afford.

President Donald Trump sought to use the U.S. Justice Department to create the illusion of a legitimate investigation into the validity of the 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 committee and former Justice Department leaders said Thursday in the panel’s fifth hearing this month. In the weeks between Election Day 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, […]

The post ‘Just say the election was corrupt’: Trump pressure on Justice Department detailed appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Items from the Culver House will be salvaged before the home is torn down, SLSO said.

WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress are pushing to increase access to abortion for members of the military, concerned a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could end the constitutional right will harm troops. The U.S. House’s annual funding bill for the Defense Department would require the Pentagon to provide leave to troops and civilian employees seeking […]

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Marc Bernstein and Andrew Glantz are among a group of startup founders in their 20s who have decided to operate their companies in St. Louis, relocating them to the region or headquartering them in St. Louis after attending local colleges. The Business Journal caught up with the pair to discuss why they choose to run their companies here.

Right now, many of us are feeling either a little dumb, or uncertain, or scared about our economy... understandable. These times happen, always have – but with their own set of circumstances – and they will resolve.

The Lopez family had no idea they would open a grocery store and restaurant when they moved to St. Louis from California in 1993. In fact, they weren't even sure their move would be permanent.