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The St. Louis Police Department is now more than 48 hours into a manhunt for a juvenile murder suspect who escaped from the city’s juvenile detention center Saturday evening.

On a day where there were no teams taking the ice or the field in St. Louis, it was still just as busy.

With nearly half a million properties in St. Louis County, the majority of owners saw an increase in their home's value, but many have questioned the county's algorithm as some St. Louisans are left troubled with taxes.

An 80-year-old woman has been forced to take drastic measures after water main breaks left her with no working toilets.

I happened to come across a short piece by Lydia Polgreen about the "Fast Cars" duet at the Grammys featuring Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs. In a throwaway sentence at the end she said this about Chapman: She was a poet of the despair wrought by the cruel economic vision of the Reagan years. What ...continue reading "What would a poet of despair say about the 21st century?"

Missouri's governor said he is spending the week figuring out which and how many resources to send to the southern border in Texas. 

WOOD RIVER - Wood River is one step closer to getting a Heaterz Hot Chicken location following unanimous approval from the City Council at their meeting on Monday night. City officials have agreed to help fund the renovation of the restaurant’s next home on Ferguson Avenue. City Council members unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing the execution of a Redevelopment Agreement with Heaterz Development Company LLC for TIF Financial Assistance at 11 W. Ferguson Ave., as submitted by the city’s TIF Committee. Councilman Bill Dettmers said at the meeting that Heaterz requested $30,000 per year over eight years for a total of $240,000 in TIF assistance from the city. He spoke in support of the agreement due to their strong revenue and employment projections. “I’m going to vote in favor of this tonight,” Dettmers said. “We now have some financial information … it appears that this will provide approximately $34,000 to $66,000

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Aldi, the discount grocer, will enter the Belleville market when it opens its first store there next week.

Shoppers could enter a sweepstakes during the grand opening between Feb. 15-18 for the opportunity to win a $500 gift card.

A Ferguson man robbed someone he met on Facebook Marketplace by promising to sell him a video game console.

WASHINGTON — The proposed global security funding legislation that includes major bipartisan updates to immigration policy encountered opposition from members of both parties Monday, especially Republicans upset by the Biden administration’s handling of border security, charting a tumultuous path for passage in the Senate this week. The deal on immigration policy, negotiated for months by […]

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