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Contact 2 investigates allegations automakers are tracking your driving data and selling it to insurance companies – in some cases leading to higher insurance rates.

A pregnant dog was the final survivor, rescued from a pack of dogs we first told you about Nov. 4.

A teenager is fighting for his life after being shot late Saturday evening while riding in a car with his dad.

In a word, no. Even at the very beginning of the pandemic, the CDC said only that schools might want to close depending on local transmission rates and known outbreaks—but even then said there was little evidence it helped more generally. After that they became positively evangelistic in their recommendations for schools to stay open ...continue reading "Did the CDC recommend school closures?"

The fine comes after the star quarterback celebrated a touchdown pass with a hand gesture that appeared to imitate him holding a gun.

One person was killed and three others were injured in an overnight crash in rural St. Francois County.

An elderly man is dead and three teenagers are seriously injured following a collision on a service road just off Interstate 44 in St. Clair, Missouri.

The top chart shows total public K-12 spending as a percent of GDP. The bottom chart is the same for per-pupil spending. For this one I used the share per billion dollars of GDP to avoid a big mess of decimal places.

The smallest voice can make the biggest difference.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about Elon Musk’s hypocrisy on the subject of boycotts: Advertisers fleeing Twitter aren’t even boycotting it. They’re just each making their own decisions for themselves. A boycott is a group action in the group’s longer-term interest, even if it is against […]

Here's an interesting thing. It starts with a typical outraged Twitter post: Now suck in your gut and read this very long—but fascinating!—reply from Greg Koenig about why bolts like this cost so much and are worth every penny: Fun fact. In the outskirts of Portland is a nice little shop in an anonymous industrial ...continue reading "The case of the Pentagon’s $45 bolt"

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo has announced the birth of a male Asian elephant calf that was born on Saturday, November 23rd, 2024, at 4:32 a.m. The calf was named Jet by their Elephant Care team. The Zoo’s 17-year-old Asian elephant, Jade, gave birth to the baby boy. The team chose the name [...]

Drew Bannister is out as coach of the St. Louis Blues after less than a full calendar year on the job. Jim Montgomery is back behind the bench of an NHL team five days after he was fired by the Boston Bruins. The Blues fired Bannister on Sunday and hired Montgomery as his replacement, a [...]

The St. Louis Blues have fired Drew Bannister as the team’s head coach and replaced him with Jim Montgomery after a recent losing skid that saw the team drop 7 of its past 9 games.

The man died an hour after the 9 p.m. crash in an ambulance before it arrived at a hospital.