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The Missouri General Assembly hopes to combat sex and human trafficking while safeguarding the rights of children with legislation moving forward inside the statehouse.

Investigators believe the attack was targeted and that there is no threat to the community at this time.

The first-ever Animals Aglow lantern festival will bring a dazzling spectacle of lights to the Saint Louis Zoo. More than 60 larger-than-life Chinese lanterns, along with interactive light displays in […]

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One university in the "Show Me State" receives high marks on a global scale.

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The deadline has been extended to submit a nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's Business of Pride Awards, now in its fourth year. The new deadline to submit your nomination is Thursday, March 28. These awards recognize and celebrate outstanding LGBTQIA+ business leaders and companies that are advocating for inclusion and equality. In addition, the Business Journal again hopes to recognize those who are not members of the LGBTQIA+ community, but allies leading their teams with an inclusive…

The bipartisan legislative committee investigating Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher over allegations of ethical misconduct will hold another hearing when lawmakers return to the Capitol from spring break next week. The House Ethics Committee – made up of five Republicans and five Democrats – will convene Tuesday at 4 p.m. It is the committee’s fifth hearing since the legislative session began in January. Plocher, a Republican from Des Peres who is running for lieutenant governor, has been…

The Bradford pear trees are incredibly invasive and non-native species that have spread rapidly across the region.

The laziest court in the land has again decided it’s not worth its time to undo another horrible decision issued by an appellate court that far too often feels the Fifth (Circuit) is superior to the First (Amendment). The nation’s top court seems more motivated to take cases if it can curtail long-held rights. When […]

Proximate and distant, micro and macro—climate change troubles human perception and defies conception. The Madrid-based artist Santiago Sierra’s "52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air"—on view in the Saligman Family […]

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"Chuck Grassley" by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa could have helped pass the PRESS Act in 2022, but he declined to advance the bill for inclusion in must-pass legislation. It wasn’t because he didn’t like the bill, but out of professional courtesy to a Senate colleague.

Grassley’s reasons may have been commendable but the result is that journalists like Catherine Herridge still need to choose between keeping their promises to their sources or being held in contempt of court, and potentially even jailed.

Now the PRESS Act is back, and Grassley has the chance to make things right by supporting it. We wrote for The Gazette newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that:

Iowa’s senior senator has long been a champion of First Amendment values. He’s been vocal about protecting whistleblowers from retaliation when they expose wrongdoing. Keeping federal agents' and prosecutors’ hands off reporters’ notebooks and phone records so that the Fourth Estate can do its job is consistent with everything Grassley stands for.

Read the full op-ed here.

Detectives are investigating a home invasion that sent a man to the hospital in Pontoon Beach Wednesday. Police are searching for the individual who shot the victim in his home.

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis has been activated to investigate the fatal shooting of a teenager in Pagedale.