You flip a switch, the lights come on, and maybe you think about all the wiring and transformers that bring us power. Few think of the mammoth power poles that hold it all up.
Traffic lines up along South Broadway as Lift for Life Academy ends its school day. At the same time, people pull into the Kind Goods Marijuana Dispensary across the street.
Missouri Task Force 1, the specialized urban search and rescue team deployed to assist with hurricane relief efforts, will remain for an extended period due to the pending arrival of Hurricane Milton.
GLEN CARBON - Glen Carbon Police Chief Todd Link was honored on Tuesday night for building up the GCPD and its morale over his three decades of law enforcement service. Mayor Bob Marcus presented Chief Link with the Meritorious Service Award at this week’s Village Board meeting. Officers from multiple police departments, including his own, submitted 35 letters in support of Link. Among the many attendees were Retired Chief Scott Penny from the Fairmont City Police Department and John Cunningham, former NAACP president and personal friend of the chief. From boosted morale to equipment upgrades , new officer hires , a $1 million expansion of the GCPD Dispatch Center , and more, Public Safety Administrative Supervisor Coleen Schaller said Chief Link’s “true leadership” has ushered in a new era for the department. “The Glen Carbon Police Department has not always been great,” Schaller said. “10 years ago, Chief Link did not inherit
The St. Louis County business community is entering a new chapter with the official merging of the Brentwood Chamber of Commerce with neighboring cities.
Planned Parenthood is closing two of its St. Louis-area clinics, but it's not cutting back on services; in fact, it's expanding in other health centers.
ST. LOUIS -- On New Year’s Day 1982, more than 19,000 spectators packed the CheckerDome in St. Louis for a professional wrestling event to honor St. Louis’ own Sam Muchnick. Muchnick helped bring “Wrestling at the Chase” to our TV screens. The program that aired weekly on KPLR-TV from 1962 to 1982. The special fight [...]
The robbery, captured on a Ring doorbell camera, showed the victim shoot and kill Tavon Williams while Williams and two others tried to rob him at gunpoint.
Last Wednesday, the St. Clair County Health Department announced it was investigating an outbreak of shigellosis among customers who had eaten at LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights.
The court debate Tuesday over how Missouri marijuana products get taxed statewide sounded similar to a grammar class on conjunctions and comma placement.
The constitutional amendment voters approved in 2022 legalizing recreational marijuana allowed local governments to impose additional sales tax on the products.
The big question before the three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday was: what did voters intend by “local government?”
Attorneys for St. Louis…