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The anti-trafficking group Polaris said the number of calls and cases has risen steadily in the two states and the nation over five years.

50 years ago the Blues brawled with the Philadelphia police, Flyers fans and had three players and a coach arrested in the wildest night in franchise history

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has canceled Jan. 15-16 concerts due to quarantining musicians.

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Historical Society — which operates the Missouri History Museum, Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, and the MHS Library & Research Center — has closed all three locations …

Your week is about to get spookier, courtesy of Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl and company are set to premiere the first official trailer for their upcoming horror-comedy film Studio 666…

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Thanks in large part to affordable activities, personal finance website WalletHub ranked our fair burg at No. 32 out of the 100 largest U.S. cities.

The lawmaker said she would become director of the Midwest Climate Collaborative, which aims "to develop a coordinated Midwestern response to the climate crisis."

A professor at Webster University and noted photographer and ceramic artist, Burris has run the club's scholarship program for more than 15 years.

Prosecutor is shocked Timothy Wolf Jr. was paroled early in a 2017 manslaughter case. "Maybe they're way more lenient these days."

The organization has been based in Crossville, Tennessee, since 2003.

Allie Corey and her family tested positive during the holidays and quarantined at home.

North Carolina’s voter rolls are like a refrigerator that needs to be cleared periodically of rotting milk and other items past their expiration date, according to Jason Snead, director of the pro-Trump Honest Elections Project. Snead is an elections advocate supporting Republican plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to force the state to more regularly maintain […]

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Coming off of last year’s success passing a tax credit to fund scholarships to pay for private school tuition, school choice advocates hope lawmakers will expand the program before it’s even gotten off the ground. But even with support from key legislative leaders, the idea faces long odds. Senate Bill 841, sponsored by Sen. Rick […]

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The addition to the MVC, which comes as several Division 1 athletic conferences nationwide experience changes in membership, may not be its last expansion move.

After launching a six-show Las Vegas residency at The STRAT Theater this past fall, Sammy Hagar has announced six new dates at the venue, scheduled for February 9, 11 and…

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Emily Hernandez, who was accused last week of killing a Missouri mom in a drunken crash, pleaded guilty today to a federal misdemeanor for joining rioters a year ago in the U.S. Capitol.

Hernandez, 22, was facing five misdemeanors in the Capitol case but pleaded to a single count of illegally entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. As Trump loyalists stormed the building and ransacked Congressional offices on January 6, 2020, a grinning Hernandez was filmed by ITV parading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's broken nameplate through the building. 

She is likely to face probation or a minimal prison sentence if her federal case follows others who pleaded to similar crimes in connection with the insurrection.…

Soulard is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by 7th/Broadway to the south east and I-55 to the west and north. The 2000 census data counted 3,187 residents (11% decrease from 1990) of whom 80% were white, 16% black, 2% Hispanic/Latino and 1% Asian.  There were 2,216 housing units @ 82% occupancy rate, split 28%/72% […]

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