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by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum carries the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular feature. The […]

Our active weather pattern continues to build, with another wave of storm energy pushing in on Wednesday.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is expected to announce her campaign for reelection in the coming weeks, sources confirmed to KSDK on Tuesday. Jones will officially announce her campaign at an event May 16 at the Third Degree Glass Factory, an art studio on Delmar Boulevard, according to Christopher Camie with Meyers Okohson Political Consulting. Doors to the event will open at 5:30 p.m. "Mayor Jones does have a number of office-side events and engagements, with the most exciting of course being…

Recently, the drones have helped the St. Charles County Ambulance District save the lives of four teens trapped on a bluff on the Katy Trail.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias sounded the alarm Tuesday that the long-talked about and frequently delayed REAL ID deadline is now one year away. “I know that many of you will view the deadline with skepticism and rightfully so. The law which was enacted in 2005 and was meant to take effect in 2008 [...]

Panera has faced at least three lawsuits over its Charged Lemonade drinks.

The new subdivision would consist of 39 houses, according to plans filed by the builder.

Legal filings alleged that Panera failed to accurately advertise its charged lemonade as an energy drink, putting consumers at risk — and that it knew the drink could cause harm.

A complaint filed Monday alleges widespread abuse from 1996 to 2017 at nine youth detention centers.

St. Louis-based architecture, planning, urban design and interiors firm Trivers has moved from its previous home on the 18th floor of the Broadway Tower to a new office on the ground floor of The Victor in Downtown West. “This is not just an opportunity for our space to better support our people and our work; […]

This is a little out of left field, but does anyone know why Jim Jordan is never mentioned as a possible running mate for Donald Trump? The guy is a total attack dog; he's super conservative; he's an election denier and overall Trump sycophant; he's a winner, election-wise; and he looks the part, something we ...continue reading "Is Jim Jordan on Trump’s list of VP candidates?"

The St. Louis-based specialty coffee roaster on Friday opened its new headquarters and roasting facility in the 39th Street property.

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Press freedom advocates widely condemned Israel’s ban of news service Al Jazeera from operating within its borders. But Israel isn’t the only country empowering its government to silence the press.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Director Seth Stern wrote for The Guardian that the episode could portend future abuses in the U.S., where a flurry of bills and court cases — from the TikTok ban to the Julian Assange prosecution — make it easier for officials to censor and intimidate journalists. 

“[President] Biden and many other Democrats constantly warn that Donald Trump would behave like an authoritarian in a potential second term. Yet they insist on continuing to hand him new powers to abuse, particularly against his favorite scapegoat: the press. 

“Anyone who doubts that Trump or future presidents will abuse those powers should view the weekend’s events in Israel as a cautionary tale.” 

Read the full op-ed here. 

Beatles fans are getting another preview of the documentary Let It Be before it premieres Wednesday, May 8, on Disney+.The latest clip revolves around Ringo Starr, showing him joking around in the…

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The self-taught singer took the world by storm on NBC's "The Voice" and was part of Reba McEntire's team.

Montez Montgomery, of East St. Louis, admitted in February to providing the weapon to two of his high school friends and then hiding the deputy's car and throwing away some of his possessions after the carjacking.

What doesn’t kill you tastes amazing — and may still be dangerous.  St. Louis Bread Co., better known as Panera to the rest of the world, announced that the chain will phase out its controversial (but again, delicious) charged lemonade following two highly publicized deaths of people who’d consumed the beverage.  College students facing finals (and exhausted journalists everywhere) can still buy the drink, but not for long.

Vox reports that CRISPR gene editing technology is great, but it has a problem: Most of the available reference genomes are representative of white Europeans. That’s a problem because not everybody’s DNA is identical: Recent sequencing of African genomes shows that they have 10 percent more DNA than the standard reference genome available to researchers. ...continue reading "Race is a social construct except when it’s not"