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The war has taken a toll on everyone with any sort of religious or family connection to either side of the conflict.

I was diddling around this evening and accidentally typed books into FRED. I discovered two interesting things. First, there's been zero book inflation over the past quarter century: In fact, books today cost a little less than they did in 1998. At the same time, consumption of books has gone up considerably: We buy twice ...continue reading "Raw data: Book and newspaper consumption"

The St. Louis County Police Department issued an endangered person advisory late Sunday afternoon after a teenager left his home after making threats to harm himself.

An endangered person advisory was issued Sunday after a St. Louis County woman sent concerning text messages to a crisis hotline.

A somber evening in Columbia, Illinois, as people gathered at Christ Community Lutheran Church for a prayer vigil to support one another following a tragic accident over the weekend.

The Gordon F. Moore Community Park in Alton, Illinois, has reopened after a sinkhole formed due to a mine collapse, with visitors expressing mixed feelings about returning to the park.

A mother and her two young boys are fortunate to be alive after an early morning fire at their north St. Louis home Sunday.

An associate professor at Saint Louis University completed a history-making performance at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, winning a silver medal as the first woman to play on the U.S. wheelchair rugby team.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — concurring with the White House's monthslong opposition to the company's planned sale to Japan's Nippon Steel. Her comments came during [...]

A Columbia High School student from Illinois was killed.

The long holiday weekend ended with plenty of travelers out on the roads heading to their destinations.

There was an unexpected entrance to the St. Nicholas Greek Festival as a water main break led to a messy situation.

Suspected gang members from the Houston, Texas, area drove to O’Fallon, Missouri, to tamper with or disable an ATM and then waited to steal from the machine when the repairman arrived, St. Charles County authorities said.