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Owner Kevin McKernan plans to open a sister concept to Donut Drive-In, the longtime South City doughnut shop.

The race starts at 7 a.m. A free afterparty called 'MOTION' will be curated by St. Louis' own Mvstermind.

Finding a good seat is a big part of the baseball experience at Busch Stadium. There are lots of good options, but not all are created equal.

The late Jimmy Buffett’s life and legacy is being celebrated with a new Margaritaville Bobblehead, officially licensed by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. The bobblehead features the iconic Margaritaville Parrot…

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NASCAR executives, visiting St. Louis Thursday, outlined the business prospects of the auto racing league, which has expanded its presence in the region.

David Brooks has a remarkable column in the New York Times today dedicated to one thing: our rising national debt. The reason it's remarkable has nothing to do with the subject matter. I'm not a big deficit hawk, but the long and steady rise in the national debt is at least concerning: Even after removing ...continue reading "America needs higher taxes"

Ticks are second only to mosquitoes in the number of diseases they transmit to humans, St. Louis County said. Here's how to easily identify the bug.

Police said the man was shot in the chest at about 10 p.m. on North Taylor Avenue.

Walmart is removing self-service lanes at some stores across the country. It joins a band of other large retailers who have recently announced changes to their self-checkout services.

The House Ethics Committee investigation of Speaker Dean Plocher reminds me of the recent history of speakers who ended their time in office under a legal or ethical cloud. As The Independent has reported, Plocher sought House reimbursement for travel that had been covered by campaign funds. And he pressured House staff to go around the normal contract bidding process in […]

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Three-fourths of Missouri voters supported the 1992 constitutional amendment on term limits.

An 18-year-old from south city went on a smash-and-grab spree earlier this month, police say, hitting 11 businesses over the course of two consecutive Wednesday nights in April. Police say that on April 10, Leslie James III and two others cruised around in a stolen Hyundai, smashing the windows of the Donut Drive-In in Lindenwood Park, Soulard institutions Molly's and Bogart's, as well as other places, stealing various amounts of money from the businesses. The following Wednesday they did the same thing at the My Marie Caribbean restaurant on Cherokee Street and another business in Benton Park.

The Clayton-based corporation increased its full-year adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance floor by 10 cents to greater than $6.80.

This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day. All of the state laws came in the past four years, pushed by conservative lawmakers and activists who claim that Democratic voters […]

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ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Health Department is reporting a scabies outbreak at an area school. Officials say there are 27 confirmed cases at City Garden Montessori in south St. Louis. The human itch mite is what causes scabies, according to the CDC.  Symptoms include intense itching and a pimple-like rash. It can spread [...]

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is asking for the public's help with finding a shooting suspect who is considered to be "armed and dangerous."

Three people were shot in separate incidents across the city Monday evening.

Billy Idol will continue the 40th anniversary celebration of his sophomore album, Rebel Yell, with a performance at one of New York’s most iconic landmarks.Idol and his longtime guitarist and collaborator Steve…

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Apparently TikTok is so evil and pernicious that it must be banned from the United States… and so useful that the man who signed the ban, President Joe Biden, made sure to post a few new videos to the platform. It feels like maybe his concerns are a bit overblown? It seems that TikTok users […]