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ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis metropolitan area still has the most efficient inland port district in the nation, according to the latest data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The St. Louis region’s barge industry handled over four times the national average tons moved per river mile in 2021 (the most recent year for which data is available). The average number of tons per mile across the other seven inland port districts in the U.S. was 104,014 - the St. Louis region averaged 427,000 tons per mile. “The St. Louis harbor continues to be the most concentrated location on the Inland Waterway for export grain,” said David Jump, CEO of American Milling, LP. “Transportation efficiencies, facilities, and geography combine to result in lower costs for shippers. This results in the St. Louis region’s position as a global freight hub.” The findings come from an independent report by S&P Global Commodity Insights analyzing USACE data to

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Detectives are investigating a suspected domestic homicide after a woman was found dead inside her Lemay home Thursday morning.

Several of the companies chosen for our 2023 Startups to Watch list proved they were worth watching last year. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest headlines from last year that were generated by companies on our 2023 list.

Forcyte is developing a portable power system designed to provide energy in harsh environments, including military settings and natural disasters. It launched out of the National Security Innovation Network Defense Innovation Accelerator program.

VetVerifi has created software to provide verification of pet medical records. Its software is built with a goal of allowing pet services providers, such as groomers and pet hotels, to easily access records from a veterinarian clinic to verify a pet’s medical records, including vaccinations.

A Hannibal, Missouri, man appeared in federal court on Thursday to be sentenced for hiding a camera in a bathroom in order to record video and images of a young girl.

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville boys swimming standout Cohen Osborn is enjoying another stellar season for the Tigers, having won a majority of his events so far. The latest came on Jan. 20, when in the Swim For Hope meet at the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center, Osborn won three individual events - the 50-yard freestyle at 22.24 seconds, the 50-yard backstroke at 24.17 seconds, and the 50-yard butterfly at 23.69 seconds -- and was also a part of the 200-yard medley relay team who won the event at 45.10 seconds. The Tigers swam well overall, placing in third with 333 points, behind meet winner O'Fallon, who had 431 points, and runner-up Springfield High, who scored 362 points. Osborn swam many races during the day, giving his all in each heat, and at the end of the day, he was tired, yet very gratified. Osborn is a Johnston Law Firm Male Athlete of the Month for the Tigers. Osborn thought his best performance came in the 50-yard freestyle final, which had a qualifying round and a semifinal round,

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Democrats put the secretary of state on the hot seat Thursday over his hiring of a private law firm to defend his office in a fight over investing rules.

Via Tyler Cowen, this is from the abstract of a recent paper that examines mortgage loans: Interestingly, we also find that same-sex couples default significantly more (53.9%) than similar different-sex couples. But that's not quite right. Here's what the paper itself says: Male-male loan originations are associated with 2.053 percentage point higher delinquency rate relative ...continue reading "Gay men apparently default on home mortgages at high rates"

St. Louis residents can choose a variety of different city projects they believe should receive portions of the funding.

Three key concerns for Madison County Chairman candidate Chris Slusser are property taxes, economic development, and trash issues. He visited with C.J. Nasello, the host of Our Daily Show! on Riverbender.com recently. The other candidate for the chairman position, incumbent Kurt Prenzler, will be interviewed soon on the show and also have stories posted about his appearance. EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County Chairman candidate Chris Slusser, the incumbent county treasurer, gets many visits from patrons to his office about property taxes. Many want reform in this area and if he is elected, he plans to make this a top priority. “We have to expand the tax base so don’t have to increase property taxes,” Slusser said. He also said adding more manufacturing and business to the area would help regarding property taxes. “I feel we have missed some opportunities with economic development,” he said. Slusser will converse more on the country and economic development

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This morning the head of the city’s Building Division personally paid a visit to the LGBTQ bar that a St. Louis police SUV ran into in December. There, Building Commissioner Frank Oswald stressed to the owners of the building that the city has no intention of condemning their property or shutting down the bar located there. 

St. Louis is set to get 28 new murals throughout the city by this summer through a partnership between St. Louis city and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.  The effort, dubbed the St. Louis Mural Project, is funded through RAC’s ARPA for the Arts initiative.

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The Missouri Supreme Court must now decide if a directive in the state’s redistricting law that says cities and counties must be split as little as possible in legislative district maps allows them to be split at all. In the first case testing provisions added to the Missouri Constitution in 2020, the court on Thursday […]

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Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has made a pretty penny cleaning out his guitar closet.  The BBC reports that a recent auction of over 120 of the rocker’s guitars and amps brought in over $10…

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I missed this story a few days ago: The FBI violated people’s constitutional rights when it opened and “inventoried” the contents of hundreds of safe-deposit boxes during a raid on a Beverly Hills vault in 2021, a federal appellate court ruled Tuesday. ....As part of its case against the vault, prosecutors had alleged that some ...continue reading "Court actually rules against FBI in egregious civil asset forfeiture case"

US Private Vaults has an interesting business model. It offered something akin to end-to-end-encryption for physical goods. Unlike banks and their safety deposit boxes, US Private Vaults did not collect or retain information about its customers. Nor did it retain master keys that would allow it to access stored goods. This lack of master keys […]