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A 36-year-old St. Louis-area woman visiting the island of Puerto Rico on vacation damaged and set fire to multiple family-owned businesses.

The St. Louis County area is gearing up for the next streak of bitter cold days and the potential for refreezing on roadways.

Two former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers were caught by their own department ignoring their call of duty.

I suppose this was probably inevitable, but boy do I wonder if it’s smart. We were just talking about the celebrity drama du jour between Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Justin Baldoni. The very short version of this is that Lively and Baldoni starred in a movie together, Lively sued Baldoni and made a series […]

Grammy Award-winning Nicholas Payton’s Nouveau Standards project features straight-ahead, improvisational music, with an all-acoustic quartet of renowned instrumentalists. Pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewart will join […]

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China senses weakness and is going in for the kill: TikTok said the app will have to “go dark” in the United States on Sunday barring a last-minute intervention from the Biden administration to halt enforcement of a federal ban. ....“Unless the Biden administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service ...continue reading "TikTok is playing hardball with Joe Biden"

Myra Jackson is waiting on an important letter. But there’s one problem—she hasn’t received mail in 15 days.

The artist will be joined by other country musicians, singers and bands on Monday.

Keltic Reign returns for their (mostly) annual New Year show! The original band started out back in 2000, with band leader Mitzi missing the music from her home province of […]

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Described as “one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation” (Wall Street Journal), Bria Skonberg has performed with Jon Batiste, Wycliffe Gordon, Steven Bernstein, U2 & Sun […]

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I swear I'm eventually going to be driven around the bend by doomsayers. The culprit this time is unexpected: Kelsey Piper at Vox, who says the LA fires "were the product of gross mismanagement by the city and state governments." I don't have the energy to take this on yet again, so I'll just say ...continue reading "Stop panicking, people"

The Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold legislation that requires TikTok to be sold or banned across the country.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the St. Louis area native, is scheduled to deliver the invocation at the swearing-in ceremony with the Rev. Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

As the we wrote in our amicus brief (which it appears the justices did not read – guess they didn’t have time…), if the TikTok ban is blessed, it provides a roadmap for how to avoid the Constitution’s prohibition to “make no law” abridging free expression. All the government needs to do is declare that […]

Over 60 years have passed since Independence woman, Sharon Kinne, was found guilty of murdering her husband in Jackson County, Missouri.