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The Drug Enforcement Agency is backing a proposal to reclassify marijuana as a less serious drug.

The greatest basketball coach in Mizzou history, Norm Stewart, 89, is now the 51st person inducted into the "Hall of Famous Missourians" at the state capitol in Jefferson City.

Missouri voters on Wednesday got a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, after a group behind the effort said it turned in nearly double the required number of signatures.

Millions of potential incoming freshman college students don’t know where they’ll be this fall or how much financial aid they’ll get.

A large group of anti-war protestors went through Saint Louis University's campus and closed N. Grand Boulevard Wednesday evening, vocalizing their desire for a ceasefire and for the school to part ways with Boeing.

Artificial Intelligence is all the rage these days, so I suppose it was inevitable that major world religions would try their holy hands at the game eventually. While an unfortunate amount of the discourse around AI has devolved into doomerism of one flavor or another, the truth is that this technology is still so new […]

In a show of community spirit, St. Louis residents gathered at Harris Stowe State University Wednesday to celebrate the commencement of construction for the Brickline Greenway.

Saint Louis Public Schools is launching a financial incentive program to try and address a bus shortage that has left parents scrambling for ways to get their children to school.

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Four gubernatorial nominations to state boards have been withdrawn by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson because of opposition by state Sen. Steve Roberts, the governor’s spokesperson said in an email Wednesday. The email said Roberts, a St. Louis Democrat, had advocated for a paid position for himself on the Public Service Commission and for his father to receive an appointment to the UM Board of Curators. Roberts said in an interview that he didn’t block the candidates because of their resumes but…

Sauce Magazine has reported that Donut Drive-In, at at 6525 Chippewa Street, is opening a second location in Brentwood. It will be called Donut Drive-Up, and will open at 8950 Manchester Road by the end of May in the former To Go Sushi space. Because of limited space doughnuts will need to be pre-ordered by […]

An initiative petition campaign that seeks to raise Missouri’s minimum wage delivered over 210,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office on Wednesday afternoon — nearly double the amount needed to make the statewide ballot. It is the first of five initiative petitions the Secretary of State’s Office expects to deliver signatures this week. Petitioners need at least 107,246 signatures to make the ballot. A spokesperson for the Secretary of State said the office expects to complete…

Dr. Rachael Springman says Thomas Kinworthy did not behave like a person who has a severe mental illness during her interview with him and in jail calls

Here's an update on aid shipments into Gaza: COGAT hasn't been super reliable about providing daily updates, so it's hard to compare the UN numbers with Israeli numbers. On average, though, the Israeli figures are about 20% higher than the UN figures. The number of aid trucks getting through is up by about a fifth ...continue reading "Raw data: Aid shipments into Gaza are increasing modestly"

Gynecology, which often overlaps with obstetrics, is the medical specialty that cares for the health of the female reproductive system.

Four gubernatorial nominations to state boards have been withdrawn by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson because of opposition by state Sen. Steve Roberts, the governor’s spokesperson said in an email Wednesday. The email said Roberts, a St. Louis Democrat, had advocated for a paid position for himself on the Public Service Commission and for his father […]

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