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St. Louis on Thursday granted the oversight board for its embattled jail a meeting with an inmate for the first time since the board was created two years ago.

The students experienced several hands-on presentations and rotated through stations highlighting how a construction project comes to life.

The building, at Pershall and New Halls Ferry roads, will allow the Urban League to relocate some initiatives, expand others, and eventually create up to 100 new jobs.

A new proposal calls for a half-cent sales tax increase in the City of St. Louis in an effort to raise funds in support of early childhood education.

Three presidential candidates — President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Independent Robert F Kennedy Jr. — will split the “pro-war vote.” But the Green Party candidate argues she is the only anti-war candidate and has shifted her campaign to focus on America’s involvement in Israel’s ongoing attacks of Gaza. “We are the one campaign… that will end this genocide,” she proclaims. Dr. Jill Stein is running for president as the Green Party candidate for the third time and has never garnered more than 1.1 percent of the vote (and when that happened, in 2016, Democrats bitterly blamed her for costing Hillary Clinton the presidency).

The saga of Dean Plocher took yet another twist this week, with the House speaker’s leadership team circumventing the chamber’s rules to try to force the ethics committee to hold a hearing. Plocher has been under investigation by the committee for months, and recently he and his allies have started demanding it convene and dismiss […]

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ST. LOUIS - Three people escaped a house fire at the intersection of Lawn and Oakland in west St. Louis. Firefighters believe that a lit candle started the fire.

Rapper Joey Bada$$ will be gracing St. Louis with a performance this evening, but unless you're the type of millionaire who can afford tuition at Washington University or the type of super-genius who gets to go there for cheap on account of your superior intellect, you are not invited. The Brooklyn native will be the headlining act at the school's Spring WILD event, held this year on Mudd Field and open exclusively to Wash U students. Opening up the show will be pop singer Iyaz, pop-rock band THEM and St. Louis' Non Euclidean Geometry.

I haven’t seen a movie that edges its audience with more cruel glee than Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s latest horny-in-theory story of complicated romance. Anyone expecting a moist-and-sweaty Jules et Jim set in the competitive world of professional tennis, which is what I thought when I kept seeing the trailer, will be slightly disappointed (and even a bit impressed) by how much this movie teases you. Whether it’s in the bedroom or on the court, the Call Me by Your Name director goes to extreme lengths to make sure the characters — and the audience — don’t reach a climax until the time is just right. 

Hailing from St. Louis, where the sounds of live music and the aroma of cannabis intertwine in a classic harmony, a new strain captures the essence of both worlds. Mississippi Nights, cultivated by Vibe Cannabis, is more than just a nod to the legendary music venue that once vibrated with the sounds of future legends. It's a tribute, a memory encapsulated in the form of a groundbreaking strain by Jay Wills, the visionary behind Tree1Four Genetics.

MSHP identified the remains Thursday as 24-year-old Sabastian Tyrese Husted, from Centerville, Iowa.

The drug take-back events go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing St. Louis website, filed for bankruptcy protection this week. Early filings offer a few new details, but don't shed much light on cashflow or strategy.

If backers of an abortion rights initiative turn in enough signatures by May 5, Missourians could be voting to end the state’s ban on the procedure in November. While polling shows some GOP support for the measure, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum reports that it’s up for debate whether the ballot item hurts Republican electoral prospects.

ST. LOUIS - Starting today in downtown St. Louis, Kia owners can receive free anti-theft software upgrades at a special event near Busch Stadium, aimed at making Kia vehicles less attractive to thieves. The upgrade station, marked by a tent with Kia flags, is located along 4th Street between Poplar and Cerre Streets. This initiative [...]

Much of the Midwest will be watching for severe weather over the next three days. St. Louis will be on the eastern threat of the strongest weather Friday and Saturday before that threat shifts eastward on Sunday.

Dumpsters typically located behind residents' homes on the Northside have been moved a half block away.

Bon Jovi is looking back at their 40-year career with the new four-part docuseries Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, and front man Jon Bon Jovi tells ABC Audio…

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Paul Edward Burks II was charged in 2021 with two counts of statutory rape of a child younger than 14. He was arrested on Thursday.

Corporate executives meet in Paris, Washington delays restitution, and the city dithers over pipe replacements.