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While earlier laws allowed people to use force to protect themselves in their homes, stand your ground provides even broader self-defense rights.

A dazzling dancer and civil rights activist, Freda Josephine McDonald was born in St. . Louis and would later light up stages from the United States all the way to Paris.

It was Feb. 27, 1996, the day Wayne Gretzky left Los Angeles to become King of the Blues, the day hockey took the front seat in St. Louis.

The Great Cyclone of 1896 killed at least 255 people after tearing through a broad swath of Lafayette Square, Compton Heights and Mill Creek Valley. More than a century later, it's still the third deadliest tornado in U.S. history. But the risk of tornadoes isn't just in the past, as the twister that hit St. Louis Lambert International Airport in 2011 should have made clear.

A new bill introduced at the St. Louis Board of Aldermen would give police the power to boot the cars of drivers they deem “reckless.” Ward 8 Alderwoman Cara Spencer says the move is necessary to prevent more pedestrian deaths in the city. Spencer introduced Board Bill 221 Friday, February 23, at the aldermanic meeting where it was referred to the Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee. The legislation states that the pedestrian fatality rate in the city is three times that of the national average.

The Fox C-6 School District in Jefferson County could become the second largest district in Missouri to go to a 4-day school week.

Students in the St. Louis Public School District could find themselves without a ride to school Tuesday morning. Nearly 100 bus drivers called in sick Monday and the district thinks it could happen again Tuesday.  

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This Tuesday, candidates begin to file for the Missouri August primary.

Fire danger remains high Tuesday due to low humidity, dry vegetation, and south winds. Burning is discouraged. Fires that start could spread rapidly due to the conditions.

The teacher-turned-entrepreneur on growing up in Alaska, selling wild-caught seafood, and expanding to Urban Eats food hall.

A ray of St. Louis sunlight catches Smino’s rainbow tye-dye jacket as he sits in the window of St. Louis SC’s SoMa house. Today, he’s complemented the rainbow with carrot-colored cargo parachute pants, oversized school-bus-yellow sneakers and sunglasses, and a purple crewneck. He’s covered his twists with a purple beanie with braids that swing as he laughs.

What began as a pandemic hobby as blossomed into a ball-making career that's earned Jon-Paul Wheatley fans the world over.

Dean Plocher’s last year as speaker of the Missouri House wasn’t supposed to go this way. The Republican from Des Peres was riding high at the end of the 2023 legislative session, able to point to big wins while pinning any disappointments on continued dysfunction in the state Senate. And he had amassed an impressive […]

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A lawsuit challenging the estimated cost of an initiative petition that sought to add rape and incest exceptions to Missouri’s abortion ban has been dismissed, with plaintiffs saying there was no reason to continue the fight now that the campaign behind the proposal is no longer active. The lawsuit was filed late last year by […]

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Lincoln University students and alumni are still grieving the death of a beloved administrator. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey died by suicide in January. Her passing has brought awareness to the Black mental health crisis.

“I never expected (my family) to grow this much,” 95-year-old Elenora Biermann said.

An exhibit of previously unseen photos of The Rolling Stones is set to open in London on Wednesday.The Elegantly Waisted exhibit features photos taken by the band’s friend, photographer Tony…

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