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Charges have been filed in connection with a shooting outside the Enterprise Center last fall.

A high-speed police chase through north St. Louis yesterday ended with a 19-year-old driver in police custody — and his car flying off I-70 into a nearby embankment. RFT photojournalist Zachary Linhares captured the aftermath as a St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer eyed the stolen Hyundai Elantra after it crashed. Police say they were first alerted by the Real Time Crime Center that a stolen vehicle was traveling southbound on North Grand Boulevard, heading toward Washington Avenue, around 2:30 p.m.

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

To lead its first office location outside St. Louis, the commercial real estate firm has hired a veteran executive whose led growth initiatives for multiple retail chains.

Legislation seeking to create a “parents bill of rights” in Missouri was amended in committee Tuesday morning to add prohibitions on transgender students accessing restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. A House hearing on standalone bills that sought to regulate school bathrooms took up the majority of a nearly nine-hour meeting last week. Missourians haven’t had a chance to testify on bathroom restrictions in the Senate this year, a fact that irked Democrats…

Hum de hum: Texas’ razor wire is an effective deterrent against the illegal border crossings encouraged by Biden’s open border policies. We continue to deploy this razor wire to repel illegal immigration. pic.twitter.com/PE8wiMYaYI — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 24, 2024 Didn't the Supreme Court rule just two days ago that the Border Patrol could cut ...continue reading "Texas defies Supreme Court, keeps on installing razor wire on the border"

Audiences love to be surprised, and the fact that so little is known about St. Louis means we have an audience poised to be surprised, writes the leader of the Missouri Historical Society.

Ronald Kruszewski, chairman and CEO of St. Louis-based Stifel, noted that last year was a “less than ideal” operating environment, with “increased geopolitical risks, tightening of financial conditions primarily due to significant increases in short-term (interest rates)..."

Northview Village, St. Louis’ largest skilled nursing facility, made headlines in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national media when it closed abruptly in mid-December.  The frantic transfer of 174 residents — many with only the clothes on their backs — to other care centers in the middle of the night led to emotional breakdowns, the disappearance for days of some residents and heart-wrenching efforts by family members to reunite with loved ones.

Mark Knopfler is back with new music. The Dire Straits frontman announced that he’ll release his 10th studio album One Deep River on April 12, and he's giving fans their first taste of the record with the release…

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ALTON - The Alton Police Department responded to the Clark Bridge at 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, after it was reported a male subject was potentially in crisis. "Officers arrived and located a 33-year-old male standing on the ledge of the bridge threatening to jump," Alton Police Chief Jarrett Ford said. "Patrol officers, assisted by an Alton Police certified crisis negotiator, spoke to the individual for approximately an hour and a half, at which time the individual agreed to come back over the rail to safety." Chief Ford said officers provided him with transportation to a mental health facility for treatment. "Southbound bridge traffic was diverted during the situation but has since been re-opened," Ford said. 988 is the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

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It's hard to find many places that compare to Alaska. It's non-contiguous, one of the last U.S. states to join the union, and prone to some extreme changes in weather and daylight.

A man from a Chicago suburb was arrested in central Illinois last week for trafficking methamphetamine after receiving a phone call from a passenger in his vehicle.

The annual contest highlights the area's most beautiful and innovative designs, as selected by a nationally renowned panel of judges. The winners and finalists will be celebrated at a special event in April.