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The growth of major industries across metro Phoenix has led to a big expansion for electrical supplier Graybar.

A fourth suspect is still at-large almost two months after authorities charged him with murder in a south county triple shooting that killed two teenage boys in February.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

Beloved Tower Grove South bar Stella Blues (3269 Morgan Ford Road) is closed indefinitely after fire broke out in the kitchen earlier this afternoon. Bar manager Zoe McKelvie says the south city favorite was open for business when her phone started blowing up around 1:30 p.m., with employees, neighbors and friends all sharing news that the kitchen was engulfed in flames. "Apparently some sort of grease fire broke out in the kitchen," she says.

On our weekly news show, David Dayen and Robert Kuttner discuss how policymakers both in America and across the pond need to think bigger.

Mötley Crüe fans have been anxiously awaiting new music ever since the band first teased they were back in the studio last April. Well, now Nikki Sixx has given fans a…

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The past several months have felt particularly heavy, especially for those closely following news coverage of wars, conflicts and humanitarian crises.

Joe’s Café, a music venue at 6014 Kingsbury Ave. in the city’s Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood, is set to reopen after zoning disputes caused it to close for three months.

Joe Biden has a problem. Seven months ahead of the presidential election, some progressives, young voters and Muslim American voters are showing serious reservations about the Democrat’s reelection campaign as his administration backs Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “For some of those people — maybe a critical number — what’s happening in […]

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Yes, political can be interesting and exciting. But in the latest episode of The Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air, STLPR's Jason Rosenbaum talks with Saint Louis University's Ken Warren about what's driving increased voter apathy. Rosenbaum also speaks with state Rep. Tony Lovasco of St. Charles County about his call for Gov. Mike Parson to commute Brian Dorsey's death sentence. And in an exclusive interview, fashion icon and philanthropist Karlie Kloss talks with Rosenbaum about her passion for abortion rights.

For so many, college and its degrees are truly important. For many others, their interests and talents lie in other areas, such as being an electrician, a carpenter, a plumber, simply someone who can build things and fix things.

“This is the stupidest bill I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Alderman Joe Vollmer, of the Hill.

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts is reportedly no fan of Corrections Commissioner Jenifer Clemons-Abdullah, yet he’s following her playbook this week after taking flak for a photo of a detainee left in horrendous conditions.  On Monday, the RFT reported on the photo that attorney Susan McGraugh snapped of her client, Lamarr Pearson, who was lying on the floor of a jail cell in his own excrement. Pearson is paralyzed, with no control of his bowels.

While the 2020 election brought out a record number of voters to the polls across the country, the United States lags behind other countries when it comes to voter turnout. Whether from news fatigue or dissatisfaction with bipartisan politics, low voter turnout threatens democracy. That’s according to Ken Warren, professor of political science at St. Louis University, who joined the most recent edition of the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air.

Police determined the driver of a Cadillac heading north on South Broadway lost control, drove off the road and struck two construction workers.

Billy Idol has shared another previously unreleased track from his upcoming 40th anniversary deluxe expanded edition of Rebel Yell. The latest is a demo of “Flesh For Fantasy,” which sounds quite different from the original song on the album.…

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When the Clayton firm's charitable priorities changed, an official said it wouldn't mean less giving in St. Louis. But its local giving took a sharp drop last year, a Business Journal analysis shows.