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Garth Brooks, the country music superstar who gained fame in the 1990s with several hit songs, has been named in a lawsuit accusing him of raping a hair and makeup artist in 2019.

This is the strongest solar flare recorded in more than two decades.

A former Pattonville middle school teacher appeared for a bond reduction hearing in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday, just days after his arrest for child pornography charges.

Another artist has been added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebration of Foreigner.Vocal powerhouse Kelly Clarkson is set to perform during the upcoming induction ceremony, joining Sammy…

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A couple told 5 On Your Side they were both recently infected with shigella after eating at a restaurant in Fairview Heights.

Police said Valerian Mills assaulted her brother last year after learning she would stop getting $40,000 per month from the family.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Five years ago, Sen. Josh Hawley’s Missouri residency appeared murky. The state’s junior Republican senator had purchased a house in Virginia and sold his central Missouri house where he lived as state attorney general. He listed…

A tanker truck was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia when it jack-knifed and hit a utility trailer near Teutopolis, about 110 miles northeast of St. Louis.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis was out cleaning neighborhoods with hundreds of volunteers Thursday to build them up.

Editor’s Note: Apologies for the sound quality on the panel discussion video. Besides experiencing some technical issues, it was taped in an open tent located adjacent to the eastbound I-44 on-ramp of the Poplar Street Bridge. Having said that, the conversation is clearly audible and is most engaging. by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum […]

Our neighbor to the north faces overwhelming challenges that could prompt its residents to look for respite in the U.S. That presents an opportunity for St. Louis, writes Raj Tut.

Chicago is releasing their 2023 Atlantic City, New Jersey, concerts on DVD, Blu-Ray and more in November.Chicago & Friends Live At 55, dropping Nov. 22, features footage from the band’s concerts at…

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Federal charges have been filed against the owner of a former bowling ball factory that caught fire in fall 2019.

Antonio Cartez Mosley, 27, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 62-year-old Michael Finocchiaro.

We live in the United States, so it's only natural that we're mostly concerned about American public opinion. But in the case of the Gaza War, Israeli public opinion is obviously more important. And among Israeli Jews, it's hawkish: 90% of Israeli Jews approved of last week's assault against Hezbollah in Lebanon. And what's the ...continue reading "The Israeli public wants war"

ALTON - On October 2, 1924, Missouri Gov. Arthur M. Hyde received a letter. The letter’s author, Noble Shepard, had killed a man and woman thirty years before, was sentenced to hang, and then escaped from the Four Courts jail building in St. Louis two days before his death sentence could be carried out. He cut a plate at the back of a cell with a saw, crawled through the hole, and then wiggled through an old sewer and out to freedom. The letter stated: “St. Louis, Oct. 1. I escaped from the St. Louis Jail in 1896 while under sentence of death for murder. I am now old and feeble and will give myself up if you promise not to hang me. I’m willing to go to the penitentiary. Put a notice in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, giving your promise, and I’ll give myself up to anybody you mention in the notice. Yours truly, NOBLE SHEPARD.” Shepard murdered Thomas George Gilroy Morton and Thomas’s fiancé Lizzie Pack Leahy on Christmas Eve, 1894,

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ALTON - Community members gathered at the Block Party for Good for free groceries, meals and health screenings. From 2–3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, at the Alton Amphitheater, the organizations Food is Love , Currency of Caring and AltonWorks hosted their monthly Block Party for Good. The St. Louis Food Bank provided free groceries, and Chef D. Rodg World Class Catering offered hot meals out of their food truck. Attendees could also complete several health screenings through the OSF OnCall Connect On the Go van. “We come in, we deliver hot food, we provide free groceries, no questions asked, produce and everything,” said John Michel with Currency of Caring. “It’s challenging to build infrastructure at places where people can get to them consistently, so we said, ‘Hey, what if we use the power of mobility?’ We started with the food truck movement to effectively replace soup kitchens, but we said, ‘What if we can

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