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Monday morning, we're following the latest developments after an officer-involved shooting in south St. Louis.

A violent altercation overnight at a south St. Louis QuikTrip ends with a security guard shooting and killing a suspect after police say the suspect shot the guard. It all happened about midnight at Gravois and Chippewa in the Dutchtown neighborhood.

The proposal could affect drinking water laws for more than half of the state’s population

A trial is expected to begin this week for Daniel Riley, who is charged with causing a downtown crash that severed a young girl's legs and jump-started an effort to remove the city's top prosecutor.

Here are key retail and business openings and closings for the St. Louis area in February.

St. Louis film and commercial editor Lucas Harger is headed for Hollywood — well, Austin, Texas, for now.  Harger, a partner and supervising editor at Outpost which is part of the St. Louis-based film production company Bruton Stroube, has not one but two sports documentaries, Clemente and Lions of Mesopotamia, playing at the 2024 South by Southwest film festival, which runs from Friday, March 8 to Saturday, March 16. “I'm pumped!” he exclaims.

Perez Hilton, Emily Gould, Ray Hartmann, St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy — what do they have in common? They're all bloggers, of course. You would be forgiven if you didn't know Tracy, who was appointed chief in January 2023, is a blogger.

Last week, the Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at relaxing the requirements for those 70 and older to work as school bus drivers, because in a state where neither the cops nor the local citizenry are capable of driving, why not get some septuagenarians behind the wheel of the vehicles we use to transport our children? House Bill 1626, which aims to spice up our increasingly lawless Mad Max-style wasteland of insane drivers by making it easier for the elderly to pilot 20,000-pound vehicles filled with the souls of the innocent, was sponsored by Rep. Danny Busick (R-Newtown). Its goal, according to a press release, is to address the state's school bus driver shortage while simultaneously giving Missouri's senior citizens greater opportunities to spend their golden years carting around other people's snot-nosed kids.

For an art form sometimes perceived as stodgy, opera goes way out of its way to bring in new voices and sharp new talents. There's no better example of that than Opera Theatre of St. Louis' New Works Collective, which breaks boundaries with every opera it mounts. Year one of the New Works Collective explored Black queer youth and drag ball culture, "the true story of an Asian American dance band heading to the Supreme Court to fight for the right to call their band The Slants" and a student taking inspiration from groundbreaking Black female inventors — talk about a fascinating cornucopia of stories you did not expect to see in operatic form!

When discussing his business, Dan Saettele often starts with a story about its previous ownership: In 2013, woodworker and homebrewer Matt Walters was hired to build a bar for Dogtown’s newest brewery, Heavy Riff Brewing Company. The brewers were so impressed with Walters’ craftsmanship that they asked him if he could also build them a foeder. “Sure,” Walters is said to have replied.

Jason Sparks is an Oklahoma man who almost single-handedly created the distillate that led to Missouri regulators’ decision to pull more than 60,000 marijuana products off the shelves in August and revoke the license of Robertsville-based Delta Extraction. Now, he’s the star witness in a hearing scheduled to begin Monday morning, where Delta will try […]

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson drew condemnation from across the political spectrum over the weekend after he reduced the sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid for a drunken driving crash that permanently injured a 5-year-old girl. Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was drunk in February 2021 when he […]

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Kansas City’s downtown took on a campus-like feel in early February as 8,000 visitors congregated at the downtown convention center and fanned out to nearby bars, coffee shops and tourist sites. The guests included students, immigrants, people of color and people who identified as LGBTQ, in town for the annual conference of the Association of […]

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A Lincoln County staple went up in flames Sunday afternoon.

The Rolling Stones are giving fans a chance to win a VIP experience to their upcoming Hackney Diamonds tour.The trek is sponsored by AARP, and the Stones are teaming up with the organization…

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How can the U.S. hit its factory revitalization and climate goals when BYD and other Chinese automakers can sell for less?

How can the U.S. hit its factory revitalization and climate goals when BYD and other Chinese automakers can sell for less?

The University of Idaho wants to buy the University of Phoenix for $685 million. Some Idaho lawmakers are starting to sour on the deal.