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60 years ago, a thin-crust, provel-covered legend was born in St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS — A 46-year-old man was killed and another man was injured Thursday evening in a shooting in the city's Peabody-Darst-Webbe neighborhood.

People like Mary Dickson aren’t legally considered downwinders, the term used to describe those exposed to radiation during Cold War-era nuclear weapons testing in Nevada and New Mexico.  “Every time I say I’m a downwinder, I get ‘Oh, you grew up in St. George?’” said Dickson, of Salt Lake City, who was diagnosed with thyroid […]

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"Prolonged, dangerous cold” temperatures will hit St. Louis late Friday, and extend into next week — when lows could approach zero, and wind chills are set to go far lower.

When Riley Holtz was a teenager, he ran the backroads of Neosho, the "City of Springs" or the "Gateway to the Ozarks," as Neoshoans like to call it, deep in southwest Missouri, a few clicks below Joplin. Neosho is best known for its La-Z-Boy manufacturing plant and its proximity to the fabled Spooklight, a floating ghost light that, legend has it, floats supernaturally at the end of a gravel road out in the sticks, although Holtz himself never saw the Spooklight despite his teenage attempts to spot it.

George and Cheryl discuss the restaurants they're most excited to try this year.

We’ve long noted how the U.S. has generally proven too corrupt to pass even a baseline privacy law or regulate data brokers. The result has been a long line of companies that over-collect all manner of sensitive consumer location and behavior data, fail to secure it, and sell access to it to pretty much any […]

Emergency crews are responding to a house fire in Overland early Friday morning.

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. House lawmakers, led by Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, conducted a hearing Thursday to examine the possibility that “wokeness” hurts U.S. military readiness and effectiveness. The winding, over two-hour hearing by a subpanel of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability broached topics including, but not limited to, recruitment, benefits for military families, […]

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Last year, a sign on Interstate 44 near Kirkwood in St. Louis County told motorists they were driving on a highway where litter cleanup was done to honor Kevin “Rockhead” Johnson. The sign was up until a motorist recognized the name as a man executed by the state in November 2022 for the killing of […]

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The discovery of two kidnapped boys in a Kirkwood apartment shocked St. Louis and the entire world 17 years ago on Friday. It would later become known as the 'Missouri Miracle.'

Someone broke into a business on Chippewa Street early Friday morning.

Everyone has a favorite museum exhibit. Here are some of ours.

Road crews and law officers on both sides of the river are on alert Friday morning as the storm moves through and the bitter cold sets in.

If you're a teacher who could use an extra thousand dollars for your classroom, this story is for you.

Illinois U.S. senators Dick Durbin and Tommy Duckworth announce USDA grants to increase ethanol-based fuel at Illinois gas stations.

Governor  J.B. Pritzker announced $14.9 million in federal funding for the state's 'Community Charging Program.'