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From Construction Dive:  Construction input prices decreased 0.9% in May due to declines in energy prices and broader slowing inflation, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors’ analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday. The drop marks the first decrease in input prices in 2024. However, both overall and nonresidential construction costs […]

WASHINGTON — Scientists debated the origins of COVID-19 on Tuesday, trading barbs over whether the bulk of evidence available points to a natural spillover event from a wild animal or a virus designed in a lab and then let loose through an inadvertent leak. The hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and […]

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Crews extinguished a fire early Tuesday morning at a south county recycling plant, a situation that renews a call for safer disposals.

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. recently celebrated the topping out of the new 16-story patient care tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The work is part of BJC HealthCare’s Campus Renewal Project, a long-term initiative that replaces and renovates outdated patient care facilities on the Washington University Medical Campus with an overall focus on improving […]

TOPEKA, Kansas — 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 House voted 84-38 and the Senate voted 27-8 to approve legislation that would expand a […]

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In the conversation about keeping kids safe online, the actual experts with the most to offer are all too often treated as outsiders and interlopers. One such expert is Candice Odgers, Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California Irvine, who has recently been involved in a lot of debates against people […]

Food columnist Daniel Neman was halfway through making a different dinner when a pizza came through the door.

Black American activists have expressed solidarity with Palestinian activists in the months since the war in Gaza began in October of 2023. In St. Louis, the relationship between Black and Palestinian American activists strengthened notably in 2014, after Michael Brown, Jr. — a Black teenager — was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. But the connection between the two marginalized groups started well before then — and has evolved over the decades. St. Louis University Professor Chris Tinson shares the long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity alongside St. Louis activists Ohun Ashe and Omar Badran.

Located in the former Pi Pizzeria space along Manchester Road, the sandwich shop's sixth metro area location is open daily.

New York Post has published two stories dealing with Bush's claim in her 2022 autobiography that she removed tumors and helped child walk by laying hands on people.

The remains of a St. Louis native killed during World War II will be interred at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in July.

Eagles are extending their time at the Las Vegas Sphere.After the presale launched for the initial run of eight shows at the state-of-the-art venue, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers announced…

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Alberto Musalem, in his first public remarks on monetary policy and the U. S. economy since he began his new role in April as president and CEO of the St. Louis Fed, said Tuesday he doesn't see interest rate cuts on the short-term horizon.

Bissinger’s began selling an assortment of artisan chocolates at about 600 of the bookstore chain's locations in June.

If the County Council approves Page's idea, it would mark the end of a nearly two-year feud between the county's top two elected officials.

Annually, Tower Grove Park staff and volunteers plant around 17,000 tulips, 3,600 annuals and 350 tropicals.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Ethics Committee released a statement Tuesday saying it has “identified additional allegations that merit review” based on its investigation of prior allegations that Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz had inappropriate sexual relationships and violated rules by accepting gifts. The committee is investigating allegations that Gaetz may have “engaged in […]

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The man died at the scene. This is an ongoing investigation.