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With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. He refused, telling the corrections officer directing him to go outside that he has been enrolled in education programs and is exempt from […]

Missouri’s method for determining state aid for public schools is poised for substantial change, as a task force drafting the new funding formula began on Monday to synthesize four months of meetings into recommendations. The group, dubbed the Missouri School Modernization Task Force, met Monday morning for the first time since breaking into smaller cohorts […]

The word “affordability” has been in the news a lot over the last few years, especially when it comes to the prices we pay at the grocery store. Holly Edgell of the Midwest Newsroom recently spoke to consumers and experts about affordability one year into President Trump’s second term.

ST. LOUIS - Southwest winds this Tuesday morning are taking a bit of the edge off the cold. Temperatures have been slowly warming since midnight. However, those same warming winds are creating wind chills near 0 F so still bundle up. Temperatures later Tuesday will get close to 30 F. Pair that up with sunshine [...]

The Black Crowes have shared some behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the video for “Profane Prophecy," one of two new tracks they released from their upcoming album, A Pound of Feathers.The…

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Headlines from the Jan. 27, 1926, front page include: Hundreds showed up to pay respects at the funeral of East St. Louis' biggest bootlegger.

The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and make it harder for tribes to enforce treaty rights.

  I love that KSHE plays classic 80’s rock and roll and the variety of other music mixed in. I really enjoy AD in the morning. He always has wonderful...

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December 23, 1953 - January 22, 2026

Riek, Marjory, 94, January 23, 2026. Visitation at Schrader Funeral Home, Ballwin, Wednesday (Feb 4th) from 10:30 am to the time of the funeral service at 11:30 am. For more info see Schrader.com.

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For five days in December, two sisters and a girlfriend of James Wilder were desperately trying to find him when his cell phone went dead on Dec. 8.

In my previous posts about the use of generative AI tools in the video game industry, I have tried to drive home the point that a nuanced conversation is needed here. Predictably, there were many comments of the sort of stratified opinions that I was specifically attempting to avoid, but I always knew they’d be […]

After the street was cleared, a South City resident said someone else pushed a pile of cleared snow back on the street.

KANSAS CITY — After 10 days of often emotion-filled testimony, a trial dissecting Missouri’s abortion regulations under the new constitutional right to reproductive health care concluded Monday.  In closing arguments, attorneys from both the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and Planned Parenthood brought the focus back to the crux of the case: are Missouri’s abortion regulations necessary […]