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Mark McCloskey filed a form this week seeking to expunge a single count of misdemeanor assault.

St. Louis Public Schools are launching a new campaign to boost literacy across the school district.

A Missouri lawmaker is looking to keep a major U.S. aluminum smelter plant in New Madrid County operating.

Water main breaks are still causing problems across the area after last week's extreme cold.

Local artist Gavin Kroeber has won a 2024 Creative Capital Award in Film and Visual Arts and Moving Image. Kroeber, a lecturer in architecture and in art history and archeology at Washington University, will receive up to $50,000 in unrestricted funds to create new works of art.

It was a random Saturday in mid-December 2023 when Jason and Nicole Thompson casually decided to embark on their lifelong dream. They had welcomed a small group of friends to their brand-new Midtown brewery the night before to celebrate obtaining their liquor license, the last legal formality on their checklist, and the private party had gone well.

WASHINGTON — Top U.S. Senate negotiators said Thursday that final details on an immigration policy deal remain under debate in the U.S. Senate, despite outside pressure from GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to sink any agreement as he makes immigration his central campaign message. The No. 2 Senate Republican and GOP whip, Sen. John Thune, […]

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The home is located within walking distance to restaurants and parks.

Girls Inc. of St. Louis, under the leadership of President and CEO Cheryl Jones, was named the national organizations’ Outstanding Affiliate of the Year in the large budget category in 2020.

When I heard about the new movie Miller’s Girl, my initial reaction was, We’re still making these? The story of a clever, cunning, desirable teenage girl wrapping a middle-aged man around her little finger and sending him down a life-destroying path was a major plot in the 1990s: Poison Ivy, The Crush, Wild Things.

It's the coldest day of the winter, with temperatures plunging well below zero, as I talk on the phone with violinist Molly Healey, who is feeling under all that weather. "I got the flu or crud or something," Healey tells me from her home base of Springfield, Missouri, on a good day to hunker down.

Do you have a fear of being one of those people who wanders off trail for about five feet, gets totally discombobulated and can't find their way back? A tense scene unfolds as various rescue agencies get called and begin combing the woods, maybe eventually finding you — or maybe not.

Saturday, January 27, will mark 10 years since Billy Joel launched his unprecedented residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The residency had Joel packing the house for one show a month,…

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I grew up on a pleasant street. There was a feeling as if we were in a “Happy Days” Broadway play.

The Illinois State Board of Education endorsed a budget request Wednesday that includes a $653 million increase in funding for preK-12 public schools.

The inevitable outcome of Republican anti-immigration sentiment

Baltimore schools face many challenges, much like St. Louis public schools, but they're choosing non-traditional solutions.

The Communications Workers of America supported the merger after securing union neutrality commitments. So far, it has led only to a smaller workforce.

Four auditing firms examine the books of nearly every big U.S. company, in a process riddled with conflicts of interest. But federal monitoring is making a comeback under new leadership.

The Biden administration will weigh the climate impacts of exporting LNG before approving new terminals. It won't be easy.