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The Memorial Day weekend starts with some severe weather threats in the St. Louis region.

The city of St. Louis said Friday that it's cleared and secured the former hospital once known as St. Alexius.

Former Missouri U.S. Senator John Danforth and two other prominent Republicans recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post announcing a new group that seeks to move the Republican Party away from Donald Trump: Our Republican Legacy. Danforth represented Missouri in the Senate from 1976-1995. STLPR politics correspondent Jason Rosenbaum spoke with Danforth.

Israel seized equipment from the Associated Press this week, shutting down its Gaza video feed, based on claims that it provided images to Al Jazeera. The equipment was later returned. "Press gather outside SDNY on the eve of Trump's indictment" by SWinxy is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern wrote for The Hill about why Israel’s recent seizure of equipment from the Associated Press previews what might soon be coming to the U.S.

"Fortunately, Israel quickly reversed course after pressure from the U.S. and press organizations. But the ordeal should serve as a cautionary tale for President Biden and U.S. lawmakers and prosecutors. They keep empowering future administrations to harass the media — apparently trusting them, against all historical evidence, to use restraint."

You can read the op-ed here.

Multiple agencies with the City of St. Louis have cleared and secured the St. Alexius Hospital - Jefferson Campus, a property subject to mounting safety concerns over the last several years.

An independent monitor is tasked with helping over 200,000 fintech customers get access to their money. But huge funding discrepancies remain.

The Liverpool home where the late George Harrison lived during his childhood has officially been designated as a historical site.The BBC reports that a "blue plaque" — a marker installed…

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Florissant’s Bangert Pool is scheduled to reopen in July.

Twin brothers at Parkway North High School both recently achieved a perfect ACT score of 36, the highest possible score on the ACT college placement exam.

Another day, another dumb lawsuit against TikTok. We’ve seen school districts and parents suing TikTok on the basis of extremely weird claims of “kids used TikTok, some bad stuff happened to kids, TikTok should be liable.” But in the past year, it seems that a bunch of state AGs have decided to sue TikTok as […]

Isn't this a cute Viennese kitten? So adorable. What's that? It doesn't look quite real to you? Fine. But I never came across any cats in Vienna, and now that I'm home my sister still has custody of Hilbert and Charlie. So this is the best I can do. I promise real live catblogging next ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 24 May 2024"

Today on TAP: The influence of corporate free-traders is at last ebbing, and they are not going quietly.

Gateway Fiber, a Wright City-based developer of fiber broadband networks, has secured $175.5 million in debt financing it says will aid its expansion into new markets.

The Lion King ballad "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" won Elton John the first of his two Oscars for Best Original Song. But perhaps it wouldn't have if the…

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The Manchester Road property that will soon house the new restaurants was formerly home to Beast Butcher & Block, which shuttered in April 2023.

A man faces felony charges after a seven-vehicle crash Thursday morning in St. John. Several people were hospitalized with injuries from the collision.

Missouri’s senior GOP senator has signed deal to write book on religion, which has his main opponent asking him to pay $250,000 for Sunshine Law violations.