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Ronnie Wiggs made his first appearance Monday on a second-degree murder charge and was referred to the public defender’s office.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. - A tornado is responsible for severely damaging One More Pub and Grub, a popular local spot in Sullivan. The storm that hit the area overnight has left the bar in ruins. The building, known for being a bar for 25 years and existing for over 40 to 60 years, was well-known [...]

(The Center Square) – A bill headed to the Illinois House that aims to provide financial lending protections for businesses is being criticized as being bad for business. Senate Bill 2234 from state Sen. Christopher Belt, D-Swansea, would provide protections for small businesses when taking out a loan by requiring financial terms such as the amount financed, fees and the annual percentage rate be clearly disclosed at the time an online or non-bank provider makes an offer for a loan. “There…

Warren "Butch" Taylor, a longtime councilman, used the word to identify the women on a Zoom call. He didn't realize he wasn't muted.

One week after the RFT broke news about infighting within the nine-person group tasked with re-imagining the charter for the City of St. Louis, the chairwoman of the group was removed from her position after a vote of no confidence by the other members.  Last week, the RFT reported that five members of the Charter Commission had sent Chairwoman Jazzmine Nolan-Echols an email calling on her to apologize for comments she made during an April meeting to Christine Ingrassia, director of operations for the St. Louis Board of Aldermen and a non-voting member of the Charter Commission. At yesterday's meeting, the chair’s removal was begun by commission member Travis Sheridan, who initially called on Nolan-Echols to resign.

Randy Heisner and Chuck Powers, who hope to open a new bar on South Kingshighway in a few months, have the perfect origin story for two would-be saloon keepers: For 20 years, they hung out together at the bar that used to be located on site. For pretty much their entire friendship, the bar was Cotter's Sports Bar, a low-key St. Louis neighborhood spot at 4610 South Kingshighway in Bevo Mill. As Heisner tells it, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the bar's longtime owner sold it, but the new owner wasn't able to make it work.

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene plan to meet privately Tuesday amid her calls for him to resign or face a floor vote that could, but likely won’t, remove the Louisiana Republican from leadership. Greene announced the meeting Monday evening after she and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie met […]

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Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said former the St. Louis circuit attorney is dodging subpoenas, ignoring calls and refusing to answer questions for an audit of her former office.

While brunch and flowers are classic ways to fete Mom, there are plenty of other options this weekend.

St. Louis Cardinals fans who watch the games on Comcast X-finity were thrown a curveball last week when the Bally Sports Midwest channel disappeared from their TV service. Comcast and Diamond Sports Group couldn’t come to an agreement to keep Bally Sports Midwest and eleven other regional sports channels on the cable tv provider by the May first deadline. St. Louis Public Radio’s Brian Moline spoke with Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic about this dispute and how it’s indicative of larger issues for Major League Baseball’s television rights.

Any talk of changes to how the Missouri House functions following allegations of staff intimidation during the investigation of Speaker Dean Plocher will have to wait until after the legislative session ends on May 17, Majority Leader Jon Patterson said Monday.  Patterson, a Lee’s Summit Republican expected to take over as speaker next year when […]

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The Missouri State Auditor’s Office wants to know where former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is. The auditor's office has been investigating Gardner’s office since 2021, when former Auditor Nicole Galloway launched the investigation. It's cost city taxpayers about $188,000 so far. Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick took office in 2023 and served her with a subpoena, with which he says her office only partially complied. On the day Fitzpatrick was going to go to court to force her to fully…

ST. LOUIS -- The Board of Alderman will discuss using Rams settlement money to pay for improving water infrastructure. Officials attribute frequent water main breaks to the city's aging infrastructure. A significant break recently occurred at the intersection of Blair Avenue and Penrose Street in North St. Louis, flooding the area for days. The city [...]

ST. LOUIS -- A man was killed and two others were injured in three separate shootings on the city's northside. Authorities have taken one person into custody in connection with one of the shootings. Two of these cases are being investigated as homicides. One of the homicides occurred last night around 8 p.m. in the [...]

The Memphis-based transportation and business services company is closing a downtown St. Louis office.

The Beatles’ 1970 documentary Let It Be premieres May 8 on Disney+ and the studio is giving fans another preview of what to expect from the newly restored film.A new clip has…

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A specialty coffee roaster has opened a new headquarters and roasting facility, where it's planning to add a new coffeehouse next.

Paradoxically, his speech today at the Holocaust Museum on antisemitism is the moment to do so.