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In March, Sanborn was honored by Jazz St. Louis with the inaugural Steward Center Lifetime Achievement Award in Excellence.

A Chesterfield man who crashed a rental truck into White House barriers and showed a Nazi flag before his arrest last year pleaded guilty on Monday to damaging government property.

The Senate kicked off the final week of session by taking up a plan that would make constitutional amendments more difficult to enact.

St. Louis Public Schools board goes on record against the half-cent sales tax, saying it “directs taxpayer dollars to non-public entities with no oversight.”

He pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the hazing of a Mizzou freshman who sustained massive brain damage after drinking a liter of vodka during a 2021 fraternity event.

They were all shot about 10 p.m. Sunday in the 10000 block of Toelle Lane in the city of Riverview.

The St. Louis-based health system has begun offering regional updates following a ransomware attack last week that took down some of its systems.

Group seeks more regulation over schools, and demand an investigation from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) -- Dr. Sameer Vohra is coming up on 18 months as the director of the Illinois department of public health. He joined the department at the tail end of the worst parts of the pandemic. His first year and a half has been defined by getting it ready for the next disaster. [...]

CASTLE POINT, Mo. - St. Louis County Police are investigating an early morning home invasion where a homeowner shot at the suspect, who was trying to break in. The incident occurred in the 2200 block of Empress Dr. in north St. Louis County around 4:30 a.m. Two residents were inside the home at the time. [...]

Six-time Grammy winner David Sanborn has died at the age of 78. He grew up in Kirkwood and built a career playing with giants of many different musical styles. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin spoke with Sanborn in February about the key to his eclectic output.

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Yemanja Brasil Restaurante, the once-fine-dining Brazilian restaurant at 2900 Missouri Avenue in Benton Park, didn’t know if it was going to make it. In January and February of this year, owners Lemya Sidki and chef Raul Uribe (Sidki’s husband) took drastic measures and, for the first time in 29 years, closed their doors unsure when, or if, they would reopen. But, after securing a loan and lowering prices to create a more casual dining experience to lure new customers, business may be picking up.

After a pipe burst at Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Ice Cream in Lafayette Square six months ago, the storefront at 1637 South 18th Street is finally set to reopen on Wednesday, May 15. “This is my flagship shop, and we have been working around the clock to reopen as quickly as possible,” owner Tamara Keefe said in a release. “We hope everyone loves the updates just as much as we do.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is doubling and in some cases tripling tariffs on Chinese-made products, like steel and electric vehicles, in a move aimed at easing economic pain in battleground states, though senior administration officials say it isn’t political. National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard told reporters on a call Monday ahead of the announcement […]

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Opposition by senators in the hard-line Missouri Freedom Caucus threatens to derail the legislation for a second year in a row.

When the Missouri legislature brought back tax credits for film productions, there was hope it would lead to a boom in big-budget movies being made locally even beyond On Fire, the adaptation of John O'Leary's memoir that filmed in and around St. Louis last fall. But whether state lawmakers would excitedly welcome the new film that really should be filmed in St. Louis is not yet clear. The film is currently titled Monsanto, and it comes from Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, the guys who brought you the Dick Cheney biopic Vice and the climate change flick Don't Look Up.

For Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the past few years were tough. The pandemic upended the viewing habits of many of its biggest fans, who stopped attending live theater as COVID-19 ravaged the nation — and even when life returned to normal for most Americans, they didn't come back. That's what makes Anh Le, the opera company's director of marketing and PR, downright stoked as she looks at the ticket sales for the festival season that kicks off later this month.