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The act of holiday goodwill is proving some encounters with officers can actually be a good experience.

Saint Louis Public Schools is grappling with a leadership crisis as it works to restructure its system.

“I’ll have to leave state,” long-time Rolling Meadows trailer park resident Denise Hoth told us. “What am I going to do now?”

Since the start of 2024, the city of St. Louis has seen over 3,800 cars stolen, and with the colder months arriving, this number is only expected to increase, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police. Here's a list of hot spots according to the most recent car theft in the city of St. Louis.

Zori McPeters relies on shelters to stay warm during extreme cold. She is currently homeless and was heartbroken after learning about damage to an HVAC unit that left Hope Nation International Church in the Greater Ville Neighborhood without heat.

After every election loss—among both Democrats and Republicans—we're treated to an argument about whether the loss was due to too much extremism or too much centrism. In the Washington Post today, Perry Bacon summarizes the lefty case for too much centrism in the 2024 race: People who support defunding the police have almost no power ...continue reading "Here’s how wokeness hurts centrist Democrats"

Beginning Jan. 1, Missouri drivers will no longer be allowed to use a handheld phone while driving.

Mighty Cricket, a St. Louis-based firm that developed consumer food products using protein sourced from crickets, won a follow-on federal grant to further develop a project turning food waste into feed for crickets.

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds […]

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The new elephant just got his first weight at 262 pounds.

This is . . . something: A quirk in federal tax law may be incentivizing wealthy people who want to avoid paying taxes to simply not file their returns. That’s because it’s a felony to file false tax returns but only a misdemeanor not to file a return at all. And due to limited IRS ...continue reading "Let’s all stop filing tax returns"

At this time, police aren't explicitly connecting the cases, which happened within a 3-hour frame, 15 miles apart, and featured similar descriptions.

A dozen startup founders were awarded a combined $140,000 in grants and a spot in University of Missouri-St. Louis’ Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center’s Anchor Accelerator.

Police are searching for the driver who struck the mother and daughter and put them in the hospital. There have been a dozen crashes at that intersection this year.