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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

Danelle Woodard and Christopher Woodard were charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

The widow of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, killed during a 2020 protest, calls for tougher penalties around violent protests in wake of a Ferguson officer's injury last week.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating an incident that forced a Carondelet man to drive downtown at gunpoint before giving up his car.

(The Center Square) – Missouri’s job market might be following a national trend of cooling off as payrolls decreased in July, but unemployment was almost unchanged.

Many people have come up to me recently and said, "Mr. Drum, sir, was Trump's news conference yesterday really a news conference?" Sorry. It just amuses me that when people describe a Trump speech they now say things like "he told a few sir stories and then...." But let's return to that news conference on ...continue reading "About that Trump “news conference”"

President Joe Biden was joined in the Oval Office by lawmakers as well as civil rights and community leaders as he signed the proclamation.

A St. Louis County man has been charged on several counts, including rape and kidnapping, after an online meet-up.

St. Louis has another football team that can claim the title of "Greatest Show on Turf." Last month, after a thrilling comeback against the Boston Breakers, the St. Louis SLAM won its fifth Women's Football Alliance championship. The team's players aren't paid like NFL players— but they hit hard and play to win. Player-turned-coach Myrt Davis and second-year running back Jada Humphreys share their love of the game, and what it takes to keep football thriving in St. Louis.

Legendary musician Tony Levin, best known for working with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, is set to release the new studio album Bringing It Down to the Bass on Sept. 13.The…

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New policies would bar books that mention drug misuse, profanity or violence in certain cases, with the school board the final arbiter of what’s considered excessive or unnecessary.

The Harris campaign is beginning to outline their economic agenda.

The iconic Route 66 is approaching its 100th birthday. To celebrate the historic ‘Mother Road’, the State Historical Society of Missouri is working to collect items and anecdotes from around the state to build an exhibit that opens to the public in 2026. Researchers Katie Seal and Sean Rost talk about the stories they want to collect and why the highway remains a source of nostalgia decades later.

A police spokesman said a female had been armed with a weapon, but he did not elaborate. The person's age was not known.

Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and Poison's Bret Michaels are among the rockers remembering Great White frontman Jack Russell, whose death at age 63 was announced on Thursday.Snider took to social media to pay…

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Another person has been charged after a child overdosed through meth exposure earlier this week.

For a while, we’ve been pointing out how terrible KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) is. Our main concern is that the bill would fundamentally lead to the suppression of all kinds of speech. That’s because the “duty of care” provision, while limited, would allow officials (mostly at the FTC, which can get partisan) to […]