ST. LOUIS -- On New Year’s Day 1982, more than 19,000 spectators packed the CheckerDome in St. Louis for a professional wrestling event to honor St. Louis’ own Sam Muchnick. Muchnick helped bring “Wrestling at the Chase” to our TV screens. The program that aired weekly on KPLR-TV from 1962 to 1982. The special fight [...]
The robbery, captured on a Ring doorbell camera, showed the victim shoot and kill Tavon Williams while Williams and two others tried to rob him at gunpoint.
Last Wednesday, the St. Clair County Health Department announced it was investigating an outbreak of shigellosis among customers who had eaten at LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights.
The court debate Tuesday over how Missouri marijuana products get taxed statewide sounded similar to a grammar class on conjunctions and comma placement.
The constitutional amendment voters approved in 2022 legalizing recreational marijuana allowed local governments to impose additional sales tax on the products.
The big question before the three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday was: what did voters intend by “local government?”
Attorneys for St. Louis…
You know, this is a pretty big deal: Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced a plan for Medicare to cover long-term-care services at home, a significant expansion of the program that would be aimed at helping tens of millions of Americans who are caring for aging parents. ....Under Harris’s plan, Medicare would cover services ...continue reading "Kamala Harris wants Medicare to cover long-term home care"
Shrewsbury Fire Chief Chris Amenn said the fire displaced at least 30 residents. More than 20 of them are international exchange students at Webster University.
Three Planned Parenthood clinics in eastern and southern Missouri will shut their doors next month, though the organization’s leaders insist the moves will ultimately expand access to reproductive health care.
As part of the consolidation effort, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers will be expanding telehealth services and hours at its remaining St. Louis clinics.
The moves come as the state has successfully implemented legislation cutting Planned Parenthood clinics off from Medicaid funding, though…
Illinois surpassed $2 billion in tax revenue last year from all types of gambling, but that comes at the expense of Illinois’ traditional riverboat casinos and the horse racing industry.
A St. Louis law firm has hired Shane Chapman as a shareholder in its health care practice group, touting his experience in defending lawsuits in Metro East.
A south St. Louis landmark known for breakfast day and night and countless memories made over the past six decades closed its doors for the last time late Tuesday morning.
With Hurricane Milton barreling toward Florida's Gulf Coast, many Tampa Bay area residents are fearing widespread and potentially weeks-long power outages, which could affect cellphone service, as many saw during Hurricane Helene.
The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Midwest Region is set to host its annual Fall Conference from October 9-11, 2024, in St. Louis. The event will bring together approximately 100 women construction professionals from across the region to focus on leadership, empowerment, and the future of women in construction. In a noteworthy addition, […]
The St. Clair County Health Department is looking to narrow down what foods may have caused the outbreak that led to at least six people being hospitalized.
Trumpist Republican outrage (most of it manufactured) over being spied on by the US government almost led to significant reforms to Section 702 surveillance powers, specifically the loophole the FBI abuses to search for Americans’ communications in the NSA’s foreign-facing haystack. But that all got scuttled during the infighting and increasing desperation to just give […]
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