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A St. Louis jury this afternoon sentenced a 48-year-old man to one month in city jail for allowing the body of an acquaintance who overdosed in his Dutchtown apartment to rot for five days before abandoning the corpse near a back alley. In her closing arguments, prosecutor Jessica Vestal said that David Thompson took the body of Glenn Williams and "dumped him like he was a piece of trash." On March 30, 2023, the 47-year-old Williams died of a fentanyl overdose in Thompson's living room, just one day after the two men first encountered each other.

The predominantly red space appropriately opened on Valentine's Day.

To You, I Go (2023) is Jessica Page’s visual love letter to St. Louis. Although St. Louis is rarely romanticized, Page aims to showcase the softest purest side of her […]

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Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown will soon have Jon Bon Jovi as a father-in-law, as she’s been engaged to his son Jake Bongiovi since April 2023. So, does she have…

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WASHINGTON — U.S. House lawmakers cast a broadly bipartisan vote Wednesday to approve a six-bill government funding package, marking one of the few consequential votes on major legislation that chamber has taken since Republicans took the majority more than a year ago. The $468 billion package includes half of the annual spending bills for the […]

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As we’ve noted for a very long time, sometimes “dumb” tech is often the smarter option. In the rush to connect every conceivable technology and device to the internet (while seeing ever-improving revenues), “smart technology” companies routinely cut corners. And the first sacrifice usually made (behind customer service) tends to be consumer privacy and device […]

The O'Fallon Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in identifying an individual who was present at a shooting in St. Clair Bowl Monday.

After two men admitted to stealing mail in Chesterfield, their sentencing has been scheduled for June 27.

A bill to protect politicians from “deepfake” images and recordings received broad bipartisan support Wednesday in the Missouri House. State Rep. Ben Baker’s bill would prohibit the distribution of digitally created or manipulated messages that “create a realistic but false image” without labeling it as being created using artificial intelligence. The penalty would be up […]

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Debate over a bill originally intended to require local population counts on city limit signs turned tense as Democrats needled the majority Republicans on race and roadway funding.

Novus International, a Chesterfield-based animal feed additive and nutrition company, has acquired Durham, North Carolina-based BioResource International Inc.

The south St. Louis church that for the past two weeks has been at the center of kidnapping allegations is again open business after the city reversed its condemnation orders. An email from Deputy Building Commissioner Dylan Mosier dated today says that the condemnation of Mount of Olives Ministry, implemented February 26, is now lifted.

The assurances came a day after the Corps announced that decades-old radioactive contaminants along the suburban banks of Coldwater Creek might extend beneath some Florissant homes.

The passage comes a week after two women were charged with sexually trafficking a 16-year-old at St. Louis County's River City Casino.

Police in Cape Girardeau suspect a missing woman with dementia may be headed to her former residence in the St. Louis area.

Sky Marketing Consultants LLC, a St. Louis-based boutique marketing consultancy, has been acquired by a growing Chicago firm.