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Retail sales were up slightly in May, but the trend is very definitely down over the past couple of years: Retail sales per capita have declined 5% since the start of 2022. But here's more context: So what's really going on? Are shoppers running out of money and buying less? Or simply reverting to their ...continue reading "Are retail sales down, or just returning to their old levels?"

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A Glasgow Village man is charged with stealing AC units in Jennings earlier this spring.

The Kansas City Royals and Chiefs could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to move from Missouri and build new stadiums across the state line under legislation passed Tuesday by Kansas lawmakers. The Kansas House voted 84-38 and the Senate voted 27-8 to approve legislation that would expand a state incentive program in an attempt to lure one or both teams from Kansas City. The bill now heads to Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, who said in a statement following the Senate…

Among the early homebuilders in Lafayette Square was steamboat pilot Horace Ezra Bixby. Born in Geneseo, New York, in 1826, Bixby went on to become a prodigious pilot, securing pilot licenses for the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers.

As part of an angry response to a New York Times explainer on getting aid to Gaza, Alec Karakatsanis says this: For example, "humanitarian aid" pier in Gaza wasn't a cynical fraud to cover for genocide (a PR ploy by U.S. to keep sending weapons that was then itself used in one of Israel's great ...continue reading "Genocide and the floating pier"

(The Center Square) – Several U.S. oil and corn industry lobby groups are suing the Biden Administration over its plans to slash planet-warming tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. The coalition argues the regulations will cause economic harm.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A plan in Kansas for luring the Kansas City's two major league sports franchises from Missouri has prompted their hometown's mayor to declare that the move ends a 5-year-old agreement by the states not to poach each other's jobs. The Kansas Legislature has approved a measure to allow the state to [...]

The St. Louis County Department of Public Health Vector-Borne Disease Prevention Program sprays for mosquitos for the majority of the 523 square miles that comprise St. Louis County, according to its website. But anyone who wants to can request that the truck not spray near their house. To do that, email Stephen Dlugos (SDlugos@stlouiscountymo.gov), vector […]

The St. Louis County Police Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing Castle Point woman.

The St. Louis Cardinals will host the San Francisco Giants on Thursday evening at Birmingham, Alabama's Rickwood Field in a tribute to the Negro Leagues.

Authorities say an attempted robbery at a highway rest area in eastern Nebraska left a 72-year-old man dead and a 71-year-old woman critically injured in a knife attack.