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"I’m frustrated. We had to open late due to all this and we had to spend a lot of time cleaning up the mess," Shani Knight said.

The City of St. Louis has recently been added to a violent crime initiative, joining two other newly added cities struggling with persistent crime.

Nationally-known country music singer-songwriter Zach Bryan chose 23 bars throughout the US to break some new music, and among them was Maplewood’s Saratoga Lanes. Co-owner Paige Barton told Fox 2 that she was “extremely shocked.” She said, “His whole message of ‘The Great American Bar Scene’ is truly what we are.” It’s going to be […]

For a long time we’ve been pointing out just how dangerous it is to turn over school discipline problems to cops. Sure, there are reasons schools might need a police response to an incident, but putting cops on staff has allowed administrators to abdicate their duties and turn incidents that could be resolved by educators […]

World-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay made a highly anticipated stop in St. Louis for the private ribbon-cutting ceremony of his new restaurant, Ramsay's Kitchen, at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Bi-State Development has been deploying a roving metal detector at random MetroLink stops for the past several months. The detector was placed at the North Hanley Station on Friday.  

The most vulnerable citizens will continue slipping through the cracks unless the community takes action, according to a man appointed as guardian in hundreds of special needs cases.

A state-of-the-art crime lab in the state's capital city will help a handful of departments to serve Missourians better.

Othel Moore Jr. was pepper sprayed, had his face covered with a mask and was left in a position that caused him to suffocate at a correctional facility.

Police are investigating after a woman was struck by a train in north St. Louis Friday evening.

Four former Missouri correctional officers face murder charges and a fifth is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the December death of a man incarcerated at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Othel Moore, 38, was pepper-sprayed in the face multiple times, had his face improperly covered by a hood that blocked his nose and mouth and […]

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More than 170 items were struck from the Missouri state budget Friday as Gov. Mike Parson cut $1 billion from the spending plan passed this year by lawmakers. In a statement explaining his cuts, Parson said he vetoed earmarked items that he believes were loaded into the budget for special projects and organizations without considering […]

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There's been so much going on today that I forgot all about the May inflation report. This is PCE inflation, the measure preferred by the Fed: As usual, don't put too much stock in a single month's number. That said, this is superlative news. The headline rate is negative, and the core rate, which the ...continue reading "PCE inflation plummeted in May"

The miniature geodesic dome that Buckminster Fuller built on the SIUE campus is celebrating his creation this weekend.

Among cuts: $4 million to demolish abandoned properties in Kinloch, $7 million to rehabilitate St. Louis Lambert International Airport and $10 million for sewer work in St. Louis County