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EL PASO, Texas — Seventeen-year-old Karina Parababire gently rocked her three-month-old daughter as they waited in a migrant shelter before a Friday night bus ride to Chicago. “I want my daughter to have everything that I didn’t have,” Parababire, who traveled up the extremely dangerous route of the Darien Gap while pregnant, said in Spanish. The Venezuelan, […]

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The mother ran outside and shouted at the man, who let go of the girl before following them back to the family's house.

The longtime head of Missouri’s Department of Conservation has stepped aside after taking the helm of the agency in late 2016. For years, Sarah Parker Pauley managed the state’s incredibly vast expanse of pristine wilderness and outdoor spaces where people hunt, fish and hike. During an in-depth conversation with STLPR politics correspondent Jason Rosenbaum last week, Pauley spoke about the ongoing challenges of balancing the commitment to preserving Missouri’s natural beauty with the need for economic development in struggling parts of the state.

The rare and endangered plant takes between 5 and 10 years to grow, and its bloom only lasts 24 hours.

Staff at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital unsealed a time capsule from 1974 on Monday, revealing a collection of artifacts that ranged from the commonplace to the bizarre.

The Missouri Botanical Garden is hosting a free viewing of their 15th corpse flower bloom, named "Millie," from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Linnean House, as the plant emits a foul odor to attract pollinators and is listed on the endangered list in the wild.

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has added another show to his Luck and Strange tour.After selling out three nights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles — Oct. 29, 30 and…

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The Voter Participation Center, a non-profit organization founded in 2003, is sending mail to encourage voter participation, particularly among underrepresented groups, and has helped over 6 million people register to vote so far.

(The Center Square) – Hours after hearing arguments on Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled a person who pleaded guilty to a felony but was pardoned by the governor can’t run for the Cass County Commission in August.

The award recognizes the dedication of someone who has tirelessly advocated for multiculturalism in the St. Louis community.

This is the second year Webster Groves Presbyterian has joined in on the nationwide movement Wear Orange weekend.

Five owners of some 38 MassageLuxe franchise locations complain that the St. Louis massage chain is wrongly seeking to cancel their development agreements.

The garden will be open from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. tonight for free viewing of the titan arum blossom.

In the state of Missouri, lemonade stands do not require a food permit, but a "Specialty Food Temporary Permit" may be required if selling lemonade at a public event.

Missouri will enter the new fiscal year July 1 with a near-record cash surplus as state spending falls short of budgeted amounts and revenues meet expectations. Meeting revenue expectations won’t, however, be enough to trigger an income tax cut dependent on revenue growth, said Jim Moody, a former state budget director. “My view is, best case, they end up probably around the last year’s revenues, which would not trigger it,” said Moody, who is also a retired lobbyist who advised clients…

Violent crime dropped considerably in the first months of 2024 compared to the same time last year, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI.

The Church of Scientology of St. Louis is seeking to sell a 60,000-square-foot building being marketed as “one of the few remaining development opportunities” in the city’s Lafayette Square neighborhood.