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Sixty years ago Friday, The Beatles made their only visit to St. Louis, performing for tens of thousands as heavy rain poured into Busch Memorial Stadium.

Judge Michael Carter is asking the Missouri Supreme Court for leniency after an ethics panel recommended removing him from office.

It was after 5 p.m. on May 13, and 17-year-old Korbin Papadopoulos sat in the Macon County office of the Missouri Children’s Division waiting for his next foster placement. Korbin had type 1 diabetes and autism, so his caseworker, another division worker and their supervisor searched the state’s foster provider database for a home licensed […]

Missouri Supreme Court faces task that is bigger than redistricting battle. Can one man stifle democracy?

I’ve spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition — resulting in shitty, expensive, spotty, and slow U.S. internet […]

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A house was destroyed and another was damaged after a fire Friday morning in East St. Louis. The fire occurred in the 500 block of N. 22nd St. Officials said the fire destroyed a vacant house and damaged an adjacent house when it spread. No injuries were reported from the [...]

Missouri’s oldest business association is the state’s newest big political donor. On Aug. 14, the Missouri State Medical Association split $1.5 million between two newly created political action committees, Asclepius PAC, named for the hero god of medicine in Greek mythology, and Patients First PAC. The association, which represents doctors and doctors in training, already […]

Their political differences grew harder to ignore. Then a shared family tradition helped mother, daughter and grandchildren stay connected.

The DEA marked the fifth anniversary of National Fentanyl Awareness and Prevention Day by highlighting the availability of naloxone to combat the rising number of drug-related deaths.

Veteran homelessness dipped slightly from 2024 to 2025, according to the latest results from the January 2025 point-in-time count. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development counted 32,495 veterans experiencing homelessness, 387, or 1.2%, fewer than the previous year. HUD counted 18,877 veterans in shelters, and 13,518 living unsheltered in places not meant for […]

The recent rise of matcha can be credited, in part, to social media, a tea expert said. 'It looks really pretty on the internet.'

ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating after a man was killed in a shooting Thursday night in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting occurred around 10:20 p.m. in the 3600 block of Penrose Street in the Fairgrounds neighborhood. Homicide detectives were called to the scene following the shooting. [...]