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ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and injured in a suspected hit-and-run crash early Thursday in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, officers responded to the 3900 block of Olive Street Thursday morning after reports of a woman lying in the street after sustaining a [...]

On August 20, one of the most significant events in modern world history took place in 1940, when Leon Trotsky, a leading figure in the Russian Revolution, was fatally attacked in exile in Mexico. The assault, carried out by a Soviet agent, reflected the bitter internal struggle that followed the rise of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. At the time, Trotsky’s death marked the end of the last major revolutionary rival to Stalin. It still matters because it showed how political conflict i

A breakup song can make someone cry and hit repeat at the same time. That strange mix of pain and pleasure sits at the heart of one word: bittersweet . We use “bittersweet” for moments that are hard to name. A child leaving for college. The last day at a job you loved. Looking through old photos and smiling even as your chest tightens. The word matters because life is full of experiences that are not purely happy or purely sad. “Bittersweet” gives us a way to talk about

New housing projects can sometimes stall out as a developer applies to city or county planning boards and goes through cycles of inspections, reviews and approvals.  Now, cities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address one of the most persistent sources of housing permitting delays: incomplete applications. And two new streams of federal money […]

Back in 2014 you might remember there was a giant, two-year, manufactured news cycle where Republicans pretended to be outraged that the then Obama White House had openly supported the FCC’s efforts to impose some modest net neutrality rules (designed to protect consumers and competition from telecom monopoly abuse of power). At the time, major […]

Missouri received nearly 900 applications for its final round of marijuana microbusiness licenses, with the Missouri Lottery scheduled to draw applicants on Sept. 9 for 77 available licenses. But unlike the entrepreneurs selected in the program’s first two rounds, this year’s applicants will enter a system reshaped by two years of growing pains and dozens […]

Walmart is looking to expand its drone delivery service to Kirkwood, the latest of 12 cities in the region to hear the pitch.

Des Peres-based Double Eagle Development is hoping to turn the 5.9-acre site — currently Kirkwood's public works building — into an apartment complex with more than 200 units.

MADISON COUNTY, Ill. - All lanes are closed on Illinois Route 255 after a person was killed and others were injured in separate crashes Thursday morning in Edwardsville. According to Illinois State Police, the crash occurred shortly before 5:30 a.m. on northbound and southbound IL-255 at Wagon Wheel Road near Interstate 270. Police said the [...]

One person was injured and a house sustained significant damage after a fire broke out on Avenue H in Mehlville early Thursday morning.

It's here at the St. Louis Zoo where the snail species' survival now lies — a possibility zoo staff have been preparing for for nearly 40 years.