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Residents say poor water pressure makes it hard to do everyday things.

As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash maintenance costs.

It's sort of a truism in the social sciences that nothing works. More specifically, interventions meant to improve things almost never actually do. Megan Stevenson, an economist and criminal justice scholar at the University of Virginia law school, says this about it: This claim will not be controversial to anyone immersed in the literature. But, ...continue reading "Nothing works. Now with proof!"

Rachael Williams of Belleville, IL joined the Real Rock Army today

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The Independence Democrat joins St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum to talk about helping the state's child abuse investigators — and whether the 2024 session deserves its low expectations.

Belleville’s city council moved one step closer to purchasing 'Mount Hope Cemetery' on Tuesday night. The board overwhelmingly voted to give city staff the green light to pitch the idea to the state of Illinois. The state currently controls the property after its owners abandoned it years ago.

"Nobody deserves that. It's evil and disgusting," said one gas station customer.

As of New Year’s Day, advertisements on the outside of Metro buses and trains are a thing of the past. The Bi-State Development Agency has dropped it, even though it generated millions of dollars per year.

Readers here shouldn’t need to be reminded that the Tolkien Estate, through its company Middle-Earth Enterprises, is known to be extremely aggressive with its enforcement of intellectual property over anything remotely to do with The Lord of the Rings. The estate appears to operate under the notion that it has control over words via trademark […]

ST. CHARLES — A new city hall complex could soon be in store for St. Charles residents.

Police said in an update that she had been found.

Residents and leaders want action on a burned-out building that’s tied to a notorious criminal suspect.

Nearly three weeks after the sudden closure of a St. Louis nursing home, a former resident remains missing.

A few times a year, several police departments in St. Charles County come together to form a task force to crack down on crime.

An elderly man from St. Clair County who was reported missing on New Year's Day was recently spotted in downtown St. Louis.