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EAST ALTON, Ill. - A person is in custody Monday morning after attempting to evade a traffic stop, crashing, fleeing the crash, ramming a police vehicle, and then fleeing once again. Officers with the South Roxana Police Department attempted to conduct a traffic stop at about 12:03 a.m. with the suspect who they believed was [...]

Horseman Group, a St. Louis-based retirement advisory firm with $991 million in assets under management, has been acquired by bigger competitor Allworth Financial of Folsom, California.

Adam Cobb died at a hospital one day after, police say, he killed his girlfriend and her sister.

PlaBook, a 2021 Arch Grants winner, has been chosen as a semifinalist in the 2022 GSV Cup, a pitch competition for pre-seed and seed stage educational technology startups.

As the firm figured out the best way to plan for the future, national architecture firms made offers to buy the company to serve as a St. Louis office. It was a time for company officials to decide what they wanted the firm to be.

She oversees the wine and retail programs for Vicia and Winslow's Table, plus the upcoming Bar Les Freres and Taqueria Morita.

The House Budget Committee reversed a $360 million cut to a program to improve water infrastructure, including removing lead pipes, as it completed a plan for using federal stimulus funds. …

A federal study shows only 6% of industrial hemp growers in the U.S. are Black. A couple in Missouri is hoping to help change that by creating the state’s first Black-owned hemp processing site.

ST. LOUIS - Tuesday is municipal election day in Missouri, but there will also be some action at the polls Monday. St. Louis City and St. Louis County are allowing voters who meet certain requirements to cast an absentee ballot Monday. That is the last day for in-person absentee voting. In St. Louis City, the [...]

A fire truck was stolen from the Park Hills Fire Department early Monday morning.

ST. LOUIS - Police are looking for the person responsible for a Sunday night deadly shooting in The Grove. The shooting happened at about 10:30 p.m. when someone shot a woman on Manchester Avenue at Kentucky Avenue. Police evidence markers showed several dozen shots were fired. The woman went to a nearby business looking for [...]

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In just two weeks since allegations of domestic violence surfaced, Eric Greitens’ campaign for the U.S. Senate has been under siege from fellow Republicans urging him to drop out of the race.  With one notable exception. The state party, which in recent years has denounced several candidates running under the GOP banner for behavior it […]

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Voters in Missouri will be going to the polls tomorrow, unless they voted absentee as I did. The post will cover St. Louis city & St. Louis County. For voters in Jefferson & St. Charles counties click here or here, respectively. The ballots in the city are identical, and short. ...

ST. LOUIS - Monday morning sees a wet. Drier conditions are expected in the afternoon with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s. Another round of showers moves in late Monday night. The wet weather continues through the rest of the week, but there will be dry time as well. Temperatures will be mainly [...]

Ukraine’s desperate fight to avoid authoritarian rule is a stark reminder of how important our democracy is — how much we need to treasure it, protect it and continue to work to make it better. Ensuring that our democracy prevails must be done in every unit of government in this great republic. The threats that […]

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Senate Majority Leader Kimberly A. Lightford, one of the sponsors of the legislation behind the initiative, said Freedom Schools have a “proud history and a profound significance for African Americans.”

ST. LOUIS - A three-year construction project on I-55 began Monday. MoDOT crews will replace or renovate 13 bridges from the 55/44 split south to Lindbergh. The work began after Monday morning's rush. In preparation, crews closed two southbound lanes on I-55 between Broadway and Potomac along with the ramp from Lafayette to southbound I-55. [...]