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While the US figure skating championship is drawing national attention to St. Louis, city leaders say the real win may be what’s happening off the ice.

For the fifth consecutive year, the number of homicides in St. Louis City is trending downward.

Celebrate St. Louis’ jazz legacy and future at the Wednesday Night Jazz Jam. Free and family-friendly, the Wednesday Night Jazz Jam is a weekly gathering that brings jazz within reach […]

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With little fanfare, members of the Missouri General Assembly convened Wednesday to begin the 2026 legislative session.

The Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR) has confirmed that a Honda Pilot involved in Wednesday morning's ICE shooting in Minneapolis was registered to a Kansas City, Missouri, address.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is calling for the public's help in finding someone responsible for illegally shooting an adult bull elk in southeast Missouri.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses. The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty on charges that included conspiracy to defraud […]

Workers are taking big steps to address a massive sinkhole that opened up more than a year ago at Gordon F. Moore Community Park in Alton.

Join us at Cardinals Nation Restaurant & Bar for Family Night with Fredbird on select Wednesday evenings this off-season! Bring your family down for games, prizes, and meet Fredbird from […]

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Leer en español. An ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman driving an SUV through her car window in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The deadly confrontation immediately ratcheted up the intensity of what was already a brutal crackdown on Minnesota and its immigrants by the Trump administration — and in a community with raw […]

Governor Pritzker Blasts Trump’s Partisan Freeze to Crucial Child Care and Family Assistance Programs Approximately 152,000 children in Illinois are served through the Child Care Assistance Program that the Trump administration is attacking. CHICAGO – Today, the Trump Administration and Department of Health and Human Services announced the freezing of $10 billion in federal funds, including approximately $1 billion for Illinois, for social services and child care across five

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today released a joint statement on the Trump administration’s decision to exclude the Senate Judiciary Committee from this evening’s Capitol Hill briefing on the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, who was indicted for drug trafficking and narco-terrorism conspiracy: “President Trump and Secretary Rubio have stated that this was a law enforcement operation tha

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday he will meet with Danish officials next week, following a recent push from the Trump administration to annex or even use the military against Greenland — a course of action questioned by several Republican senators. Senators sat through a closed, classified briefing Wednesday with Rubio about […]

A former paramedic-firefighter from St. Louis County appeared in federal court Tuesday to be sentenced for child sex crimes.

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced his office has won the first civil hate crime lawsuit filed by the Attorney General’s office. As a result of Raoul’s lawsuit, a Carroll County Circuit Court judge ordered two white Carroll County residents to pay more than $90,000 for their monthslong campaign of intimidation against their neighbor, who is a Black man. “This behavior is shocking, racist and un-American. I appreciate the judge’s order that show