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The community has already raised thousands of dollars for a St. Louis native and his family who lost their home and all of their belongings in a California wildfire.

Missouri lawmakers are criticizing Capitol Police for not being transparent enough during emergency situations. 

50-year-old Wentzville Fire Capt. Tommy Shine is hospitalized in critical condition following an unexpected twist that’s fueled a wave of emotions for his wife, five children, and an entire community.

DES PERES, Mo. - First responders are on the scene of an accident that is causing traffic backups along Interstate 270 Thursday evening. A MoDOT camera shows what appears to be a semi-truck at a standstill across the lanes. According to MoDOT, the accident occurred just before 8:45 p.m. Traffic is down to one lane [...]

The three businesses face close to $500,000 in damages.

From recreation to maintaining our roads, local businesses are profiting from the largest snowfall our region has seen in years.

With the TikTok argument headed for the Supreme Court on Jan. 10, it’s become increasingly common to read about the so-called “easy” path for affirming the TikTok ban: Treat it like a radio station, where foreign ownership has long been prohibited.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Senior Advisor for Advocacy Caitlin Vogus explained in Tech Policy Press why that argument is wrong, as both a legal matter and a policy one.

As Vogus explains:

“The lower First Amendment protections for radio and broadcast television don’t just allow the government to prohibit foreign ownership. They also give the government significant control over the speech allowed on those mediums, control that isn’t currently allowed online or in the real world. That’s why the FCC can punish a radio station for playing George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” but not HBO, or require “equal time” for political candidates on broadcast TV stations when it could never require the same in the pages of a newspaper.

“If we give the government a freer hand to regulate the internet the way they do radio and broadcast TV, it won’t be long before officials are trying to ban speech that embarrasses or criticizes them and stamp out content they disagree with.”

Read the Tech Policy Press article here.

Another round of wintry weather is lurking ahead, with several inches of snow expected overnight into Friday afternoon in the St. Louis region.

“I don’t know that across the country there is a more generous, more charitable, city or region than we have in St. Louis,” Chris Kerber said.

Donald Trump has lost his last appeal. He will be sentenced tomorrow in his hush money/business fraud case and officially become the first convicted felon to hold the US presidency.