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Knowing your HIV status is crucial, especially for Black men and women, who have the highest rate of HIV in St. Louis as of 2021.

Weber Fire and Safety, a fire protection business based in High Ridge, has a new owner.

The mistake has hurt the center's ability to pay down its debt: More than $160,000 should have gone to the $55 million in bonds the city issued for the project.

"I may be a nun, but I am not stupid," the principal of Cor Jesu warned. "I know kids that have gone down there and drank."

Cardinals baseball will be back in St. Louis before you know it. Before the home opener, fans will have the opportunity to celebrate the new season with a pep rally.

It took many years of searching documents and failed meetings, but this brother and sister finally found each other, and couldn't be happier.

The station still known as the ‘Murder Mobil’ had the highest number of aggravated assaults and robberies between 2005 and 2020. Victims included the owner.

Idol Wolf, the Spanish-inspired restaurant that opened in July inside 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis at 1528 Locust St. in Downtown West, added more than a dozen employees as it expanded its service to include brunch.

Audra Noyes Herndon, a Paris-trained fashion designer, is continuing to expand her luxury womenswear brand, Audra, in St. Louis.

One man was shot and killed last night in north St. Louis.

According to the police, a pickup truck struck a 4-year-old boy while he was out playing with other kids. This happened around 5:30 p.m., and that little boy died shortly after in the hospital.

One person was taken into custody after an ambulance was stolen overnight in north St. Louis.

Season tickets for The Muny's 2024 season go on sale Monday, starting at 9:00 a.m.

The St. Louis County Library Foundation is hosting an event featuring pop culture icon and international drag star RuPaul.

A St. Louis pediatrician who prosecutors allege traded sex for drugs with patients for years is set to appear in federal court this afternoon. There, a judge will determine whether 67-year-old Craig Spiegel should be immediately incarcerated or allowed to remain free as his case makes its way through the courts. The doctor stands accused of issuing more than 1,200 prescriptions since 2014 for drugs deemed medically unnecessary, in exchange for sex or cash.

The company that broke the internet with its THC-infused Red Hot Riplets has finally opened its first dispensary in St. Louis.  Show-Me Organics opened the doors to its Blue Sage Cannabis Deli (1015 McCausland Avenue) on February 23 in the prime spot between Hi-Pointe Drive-In and Hi-Pointe Theatre near Forest Park, ensuring that the whole area will be even Hi-er going forward. The “deli” in its name references the fact that the dispensary weighs out your selection onsite in front of you rather than dealing strictly with prepackaged flower, as with most Missouri dispensaries.

In 2021, two years before California enacted new hog confinement standards for pork to be sold within its borders, Seaboard Foods said it would “no longer sell certain whole pork products” in the state. Passed in 2018, California’s Farm Animal Confinement Initiative, often referred to as Proposition 12, required pork producers to give sows, or […]

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There is an urgent need to make civic education available in our schools to help protect and strengthen our republic and its democratic form of government. Civic learning and participation should be a priority in Missouri and nationwide. This week, Civic Learning Week, has been set aside to emphasize the importance of every citizen having […]

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You can watch the Hibernian Parade in Dogtown Sunday, March 17, at 11:00 a.m., streaming live on 5Plus.

On March 11, 1980, the world's first floating McDonald's opened on the St. Louis riverfront.