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Panera Bread, known locally as St. Louis Bread Co., left the property last year for smaller office space in Fenton.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an AMBER Alert for a missing child out of Perryville, Missouri.

The federal government will spend $3.1 million to reconstruct a "failing parking lot" at a federal building in Overland, an agency said Wednesday.

The House leadership in both parties is poised to expand, not reform, warrantless spying on Americans. But the rank and file isn’t going along.

From Gen. Christopher Cavoli, commenting on the dire situation in Ukraine: The side that can’t shoot back loses. It's disgraceful that we've given up on Ukraine, and it's beyond disgraceful that this is largely because the Republican Party is following the lead of Donald Trump, who has a personal beef with Ukraine because they refused ...continue reading "Quote of the day: Republicans and Ukraine"

Missouri House members on Wednesday took a step toward prohibiting exports of water, arguing the state’s “most precious resource” should be protected and reserved for residents. The bill, which prohibits water exports without a state permit, cleared an initial Missouri House vote 115-25. It needs second approval before it moves to the Missouri Senate, where […]

The post ‘The water wars are coming’: Missouri looks to limit exports from rivers, lakes appeared first on Missouri Independent.

A few days ago Damon Linker wrote a piece for the New York Times claiming that America is broken, and this is why people are so unhappy right now. Linker makes his case by cherry picking a laundry list of bad things that have happened recently, and he's certainly right about some of them. Iraq ...continue reading "For the millionth time: People are happy and things are going OK"

About two-thirds of Americans say abortion should generally be legal, according to polling by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

We’ve long known no one cares what happens to people who are incarcerated. The indifference flows through the so-called criminal justice system to the private sector to tons of voters who firmly believe the nation could be better served by stripping certain Americans of all their rights. The fact that we jail more people than […]

A recent Wall Street Journal article called the real estate situation of Downtown St. Louis a "nightmare" while describing challenges around vacant properties in the city.

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A metal smelting company based in Korea has acquired a locally-based scrap metal firm through its U.S. subsidiary.

Illinois launched a $14 million New Stores in Food Deserts Program Tuesday to encourage new development of grocery stores in food desert areas.

The difficult-to-watch video shows nearly 100 shots were fired by officers.

A new Grateful Dead book penned by late songwriter Robert Hunter is due for release later this year.Hunter wrote The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead—The Lost Manuscript of Robert…

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“I think it’s important to note the water wars are coming,” said Rep. Bridget Walsh Moore, a St. Louis County Democrat.

In history and poetry, Xanadu was the location of the opulent summer palace of Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan and emperor during the Yuan dynasty. In 1980, Xanadu was a fluffy, critically panned movie musical that paired Olivia Newton-John with Gene Kelly and a handful of catchy disco-influenced hits. At Stray Dog Theatre, Xanadu is a cheerfully bright musical that embraces the movie's flaws and turns them into a cheesy good time.