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The "Pink Friday 2" tour holds the record for the highest-grossing rap tour by a woman.

The woman arrived at Festus police headquarters Tuesday morning and told authorities she had drowned her 2-year-old son and shot and killed her 9-year-old daughter, police said.

The closure is expected to last for the next three weeks.

We’ve long been critics of facial recognition tech here at Techdirt. Even though the steady march of technology inevitably means the tech will get faster and better, the problem is the first part: faster. The tech has proven to be very fallible. And it has made things even worse for the sort of people most […]

The Speed Reading Mastery Bundle has 6 courses to help you learn to absorb new information faster by learning speed reading methods used by top universities and Guinness World Record holders. These skills will not only help you with your everyday tasks, but open doors to take on any new interest or career. Within minutes, […]

Flower Child, a fast-casual restaurant concept, will open its first Missouri location in Frontenac on Tuesday, June 18. The restaurant will also host an in-person job fair through Sunday, June 8, to hire 60 employees.

Start your engines! NASCAR meets the Metro East once again as Enjoy Illinois 300 returns this weekend for the third consecutive year.

Organizers of the 2024 Evolution Festival organizers have announced financial firm Stifel as the event's presenting sponsor.

The City Council voted to approve a bill that could deny business license renewals over unpaid property taxes, even if the business is renting space and the landlord owes axes.

It is quickly congealing into conventional wisdom that Joe Biden's big economic problem is not the current inflation rate, which is fairly moderate, but the fact that prices are still higher than they were a few years ago. People have memories of those lower prices, so they're unhappy with the current higher ones. It's only ...continue reading "Why Biden isn’t getting credit for crushing inflation"

OK, it's official. Donald Trump's "other crime"—the one that turns a falsification of records from a misdemeanor into a felony—can be anything from a menu of three choices. CNN has a good description of the judge's instructions to the jury this morning: Judge Juan Merchan explains that the jury must determine whether Trump conspired to ...continue reading "Donald Trump’s “other crime” finally officially explained"

ST. LOUIS -- Cicadas have invaded nearly every neighborhood in the St. Louis metro area. The loud buzzing is the mating call of male cicadas, trying to attract females. This year is particularly bad because two cicada broods are emerging simultaneously. The good news is that it is almost over. Missouri is home to four [...]

Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist,’ rarely gets it right when it comes to actual free speech. But he deserves a rare round of applause in his fight against Australia’s global speech injunction. We’ve had many posts detailing Elon Musk’s somewhat hypocritical understanding of free speech. This included his willingness to fold and give […]

Not all white squirrels are albinos, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. Here's why.

A Jay Ashcroft campaign letter that attacked his opponents Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe as a closeted Democrat and state Sen. Bill Eigel as a “political gadfly” shows illegal coordination between his gubernatorial campaign committee and a political action committee, a complaint to the Missouri Ethics Commission states. Ashcroft’s campaign is denying the allegations. The complaint, […]

The post Complaint alleges Jay Ashcroft campaign letter runs afoul of ethics law appeared first on Missouri Independent.

In a story that starts off infuriating but ends up heartwarming, the Osbourne family has taken in a new dog.The infuriating part is that the pup, a bulldog, had been…

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Most of the region's insects have already come out of the ground, meaning the cicadas' song will stay loud for weeks until July approaches.