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Grammy Award-winning Nicholas Payton’s Nouveau Standards project features straight-ahead, improvisational music, with an all-acoustic quartet of renowned instrumentalists. Pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewart will join […]

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China senses weakness and is going in for the kill: TikTok said the app will have to “go dark” in the United States on Sunday barring a last-minute intervention from the Biden administration to halt enforcement of a federal ban. ....“Unless the Biden administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service ...continue reading "TikTok is playing hardball with Joe Biden"

Myra Jackson is waiting on an important letter. But there’s one problem—she hasn’t received mail in 15 days.

The artist will be joined by other country musicians, singers and bands on Monday.

Keltic Reign returns for their (mostly) annual New Year show! The original band started out back in 2000, with band leader Mitzi missing the music from her home province of […]

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Described as “one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation” (Wall Street Journal), Bria Skonberg has performed with Jon Batiste, Wycliffe Gordon, Steven Bernstein, U2 & Sun […]

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I swear I'm eventually going to be driven around the bend by doomsayers. The culprit this time is unexpected: Kelsey Piper at Vox, who says the LA fires "were the product of gross mismanagement by the city and state governments." I don't have the energy to take this on yet again, so I'll just say ...continue reading "Stop panicking, people"

The Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold legislation that requires TikTok to be sold or banned across the country.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the St. Louis area native, is scheduled to deliver the invocation at the swearing-in ceremony with the Rev. Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

As the we wrote in our amicus brief (which it appears the justices did not read – guess they didn’t have time…), if the TikTok ban is blessed, it provides a roadmap for how to avoid the Constitution’s prohibition to “make no law” abridging free expression. All the government needs to do is declare that […]

Over 60 years have passed since Independence woman, Sharon Kinne, was found guilty of murdering her husband in Jackson County, Missouri.

Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Deundrea Holloway pleaded guilty to first-degree murder following the sentencing and conviction for the murder of pregnant Liese Dodd.

Removing radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill will cost nearly $400 million after federal officials discovered the contamination was far more widespread than previously known, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday.  In a press release, EPA officials announced they had significantly expanded the portions of the suburban St. Louis landfill that will require cleanup. Crews will need to dig up another 20,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and debris — more than…