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The postal worker stole mail containing credit cards from customers on her route and racked up nearly $27,000 in charges.

Elton John and Rod Stewart haven't been that close in recent years, but Elton still made it a point to wish his old pal a happy 80th birthday on Friday.On…

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Watlow, a Maryland Heights-based industrial technology firm, has added two new regional leadership roles to its executive team to oversee business in Asia and Europe.

A postal carrier from southern Illinois was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison after she admitted to stealing credit cards from the mail and using them for personal expenses.

GRAFTON - Raging Rivers WaterPark will host the largest snowball fight in the Riverbend region. At 12 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, the community is invited to Raging Rivers at 100 Palisades Parkway in Grafton for a huge "Snowball Showdown." Attendees will be asked to sign waivers before the fight begins, and then the fun will commence in the Raging Rivers parking lot. “We like to have fun with the community,” said Park Manager Jeremy Hayes. “We hope to get people to engage. It’s more about engagement than anything. It's just getting people out, meeting new people, mingling. If we can create two or three new friendships in a season, we feel like we've accomplished something.” The idea for the snowball fight started as a joke between staff members. They teased that they wanted to throw snowballs at Raging Rivers management. As the conversation continued, staff members decided it would be fun to have a snowball fight with the community. Raging

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The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per hour. In many states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted upward as inflation rises. But voters in several states, including deeply red ones such as Alaska and Missouri, chose in November to […]

Experience the adrenaline rush of high-performance cars at the St. Louis Auto Show. From Jan. 9 to 12, you can discover the power, precision and unmatched speed of the latest […]

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case just days before his inauguration, making him the only past and future U.S. president with a criminal record. Trump has faced four criminal prosecutions but the New York state case was the sole one that went to trial. A jury convicted […]

Eric Jordan Williams, 21, was sentenced to life without parole plus 45 years in prison for fatally shooting 20-year-old Joyce Freeman in November 2020, after she and her boyfriend were fired upon while preparing to take her four-day-old son to a doctor's appointment.

Over at the Free Press, the editors use the LA wildfires as an excuse to run that most tedious of genres: how California went from being great to being a progressive hellhole that spends all its money on woke frivolities: But they’ve neglected the basics: crime (the murder rate is up more than 15 percent ...continue reading "California is doing fine, thank you very much"

For the second time in a week, measurable snowfall blankets the St. Louis area.

For quite some time now, we’ve pointed out how Jim Jordan has weaponized the government to suppress speech. Quite frequently, he seems to be doing this in coordination with Elon Musk. And yet, somehow, it felt like we were the only ones calling this out. So many in the media seem fine repeating the lie […]

Jethro Tull is set to release a new album, Curious Ruminant, on March 7. It will feature nine new tracks, including a tune called “Drink From The Same Well,” which is almost 17 minutes…

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Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman’s bill would outlaw the use of restraints in the third trimester, during labor and for the first 48 hours postpartum “except in extraordinary circumstances.”

The American economy gained 256,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 166,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.1%. There were no gotchas in the December report. Employment was up and unemployment was down. It ...continue reading "Net jobs up 166,000 in December"

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Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

As the Kansas City Royals scour the region for a new stadium site, and as the Chiefs weigh whether to renovate Arrowhead or move, a familiar story unfolds. The two states are at it again. Soon after Jackson County voters soundly rejected a ⅜-cent sales to fund a downtown Royals ballpark and similar subsidies to […]