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A St. Louis father faces felony charges over the death of his four-month-old child earlier this week.

A lawsuit seeks to block new plans to renovate University City's annex and trinity buildings, arguing they violate a charter provision putting sales or leases of certain buildings up to a vote of the public.

The O'Fallon Police Department said that the boy, 9, lived out-of-state and was in O'Fallon visiting family. Authorities have not released the child's name.

Water was turned back on for neighbors around McCausland and Chippewa on Friday after more than 24 hours without it due to a break on a waterline. 

Kyle Gibson pitched two-hit ball over seven innings, Pedro Pagés broke a scoreless tie when he led off the eighth with his first career homer and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Friday.

Aisha Sultan writes: I thought the transition to my parents getting old would happen so gradually that I would hardly notice it. That’s not how it happened at all.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

(The Center Square) – Taxpayers who worked remotely during the pandemic and paid earnings taxes to the City of St. Louis are eligible for a refund, according to a settlement.

When House Minority Leader Crystal Quade first won election to her Springfield-based seat in 2016, her fellow Democrats suffered catastrophic losses for state legislative and statewide posts. After eight years of near total GOP control of Missouri state government, Quade believes the state’s voters are ready to move on and place Democrats like her in the governor’s mansion. She joins the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air to discuss her candidacy ahead of the Aug. 6 primary.

Tyson Foods, Inc. “devastated” a Missouri town and “chicken farmers who put everything on the line” to raise animals for slaughter when it closed its Dexter plant, a lawsuit alleges.  An owner of three poultry farms in Arkansas that raised chickens for slaughter at the plant, which closed last October, filed a lawsuit against the […]

The post Lawsuit claims ‘fraudulent scheme’ in Tyson plant closure in southeast Missouri appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe has worn a lot of different hats over the years: That includes car dealer, highways and transportation commissioner, state senator, and lieutenant governor. As one of three main GOP candidates seeking his party’s gubernatorial nomination on Aug. 6, Kehoe brushed aside the idea that he’s part of the Jefferson City establishment and explained why he thinks he’s the best choice for Missouri.

The 77th annual Tony Awards are happening Sunday in New York, with The Who's Pete Townshend previously confirmed as a presenter. Well, he may be doing more than that. Deadline is now…

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Numerous meads and empanadas will be offered at the celebration, the business said on its Instagram page.

An investigation is underway after a driver struck a child on a bicycle Friday afternoon in O'Fallon.

On the latest episode of the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air, STLPR's Jason Rosenbaum interviews TWO Missouri gubernatorial hopefuls — GOP Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe and Democratic House Minority Leader Crystal Quade. The two are trying to maneuver through primaries that are slated to take place on Aug. 6. Rosenbaum also talked with STLPR's Sarah Kellogg about the high-stake governor's contest.

Whether intentional or not, the process for tech companies to fall to the process of enshittification seems to be a very real trend. The term, coined by Cory Doctorow, describes the process by which once good and useful technology platforms devolve to become worse and less useful as the owners of those platforms move on […]