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Dry conditions continue as St. Louis heats up this weekend
ST. LOUIS - It'll heat up through the weekend and into next week, with some of the hottest temperatures we’ve seen so far this year. However, humidity will remain lower than during our previous “heat waves,” so heat index values won’t get too high. We can expect highs near or just shy of 90 on [...]
About 80 new laws took effect in Missouri this week. Here's a look at 10 of them.
Nearly 80 Missouri laws took effect Friday, touching rural speed limits, downtown St. Louis development, DUI penalties, schools and more.
McClellan: Missouri politics could use a class clown
Columnist Bill McClellan writes: I have great respect for class clowns, and I felt a certain pride when Sen. Eric Schmitt played class clown at a Senate hearing.
Kansas City’s habit of dismissing the voters who say no
Kansas City leaders can seem contemptuous of the voters they answer to. The Royals stadium deal, pushed through without a public vote, is the latest example. That hostility goes back more than a decade — and former Mayor Sly James’ recent column is the latest reminder. James begins an Aug. 23 essay by chastising those […]
Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.
In many Illinois counties, cops even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route people into the deportation despite a state law intended to prevent such collaboration.
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See the Aug. 29, 1926, front page: Blue law of 1794 is invoked to stop Sunday baseball
Headlines from the Aug. 29, 1926, front page include: 2 formally charged with Doss murder
Volunteer opportunities like For Goodness Cakes
Got an awesome photo of some random persons car in front of the arch after the cardinals vs the pirates!
Two kittens recovering after being thrown from truck, covered in suspected bleach
Two kittens are recovering after police say they were thrown from a moving truck inside a duffel bag and covered in what appeared to be bleach.
St. Louis community members call for help fighting thefts at churches
Pastor Robert Strong estimates the cost to replace two air conditioning units destroyed on the roof of his church to be more than $75,000. Kossuth Church of God in Christ is on Clarence Avenue in North St. Louis.
'Is this even happening?' - St. Louis man finds stranger going through his car
A bizarre situation was caught on camera earlier this week. A south St. Louis man says he was saying "bye" to his kids before work. That's when he says a stranger started going through his car, right in front of them.
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Barwick, Michael - St. Louis, MO
Wagner, Maureen Ann
August 27, 2026
Wolff, Norman
August 26, 2026, age 101. Beloved husband of the late Barbara G. Wolff for 63 years. Dear father of Joan Wolff, Clifford (True) Wolff and Helen (Jeff) DuBowy. Loving grandfather of Connie (Justin) Hansen, Robbie Lundegard, Margaret (Stef) Paschen-Wolff, Bernard…
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Quinn Mathews gets first MLB win; Cardinals beat Pirates 4-1
Quinn Mathews allowed one run over 5 2/3 innings for his first major league win and Jimmy Crooks hit a two-run homer to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.
Buc-ee’s Decides The Right Response To Pushback On Its Trademark Bullying Is To Invoke Partisanship
We’ve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-ee’s, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-ee’s seems to think that any semi-related business that has branding that involves a cartoon animal or in any way references beavers somehow violates its trademark […]