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Missouri’s child welfare system has struggled to perform essential functions over the years. But after hiring more staff and making other changes in recent years, state officials say fewer foster kids are languishing in the system. St. Louis Public Radio’s Lacretia Wimbley spoke with one woman who spent more than 10 years as a foster kid in Missouri, and reports on what officials are doing to better outcomes for children in the system.

Sammy Hagar will kick off his The Best of All Worlds Tour on Saturday, and ahead of the kickoff, he and his bandmates – Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Jason…

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Incidents over the Fourth of July weekend in St. Louis included a mass shooting and juvenile arrests.

It’s perceived, rather correctly, as coming from an out-of-touch elite donor class without public legitimacy.

If he is the next president, we could see civil disobedience on an unprecedented scale. Better to keep him out of the White House in the first place.

But the constitutional amendment also leaves room for legislative meddling in the deep-red state.

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As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms.

With the definition resolved, will the EPA come for polluting coal plants?

In March 1945, Walter Winchell, popular US gossip journalist, warned the public about the potential danger of German prisoners of war being held in a camp near the Weldon Springs Ordnance Works, a facility that manufactured TNT for the US military. “Some Nazi Prisoners of War are tepeeing [sic] at a Prisoner of War ‘vacation resort’ …

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Moose Evans of Woodstock, GA joined the Real Rock Army today

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The 10th biannual exhibition curated from artists within 200 miles. Opening May 7th and on display through October, the 10th Biannual will feature 32 artists and 41 works from a […]

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Return to a time when steamboats ruled the river. The one-hour narrated riverfront cruise aboard the Riverboats at the Gateway Arch explores the history of downtown St. Louis, including the […]

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Is the Alton sinkhole getting bigger or is there an illusion in Illinois? Many questions remain unanswered about the sinkhole that formed at Gordon Moore Park at the end of June.

Matt Yglesias has a bit of an odd cri de couer today about Joe Biden's mental state. Except that it's actually more about Matt's mental state: I really don’t enjoy being wrong. But looking back on Biden’s disastrous debate with the benefit of some time away, I have to admit that I was wrong.... I’ve ...continue reading "There’s no embarrassment in getting something wrong"

With one week until the Republican National Convention, GOP members are still in disagreement on which delegates should be sent to Milwaukee.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is reviewing its strategy and operations in downtown St. Louis after shootings that left seven injured during the 4th of July holiday.

I don’t often praise law enforcement agencies, generally because they rarely do anything praise-worthy. And the Chicago PD is so fraught with problems and problematic tactics that it’s difficult to give it credit even when credit is due. But here we are, doing the difficult thing. After years of fighting to keep this information secret […]