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An official with the International Institute of St. Louis visited recently with an aide to Chicago's mayor and with several Hispanic-oriented groups there.

Arnold Britt of Ballwin was indicted Thursday for receiving stolen property, a felony; and fraudulent credit card use, a misdemeanor. His court date was set for Nov. 30.

The late Bay Area composer, academic, and arts leader Olly Wilson drew from his vast knowledge of African and African-American art forms and genres, as well as standard conservatory fare, to create his own musical language, transforming field research into felt experience. Inspired by the Yoruban god of thunder and lightning, Shango Memory uses a post-bop jazz idiom to rewrite the tropes of European modernism. Wilson's style is informed but not dictated by his extensive ethnomusicological studies in West Africa. Like Beethoven's Ninth, Shango Memory marshals the elements to approach the divine. Ancestor worship—re-imagined as an alternative, Africanized canon—becomes a force for collective liberation. Like many young men of his time and place, Beethoven was deeply moved by Friedrich Schiller's "An die Freude." In the decades that transpired before he set Schiller's heady verses to the tune we can all hum in our sleep, Beethoven witnessed the degradation of his Enlightenment-inspired ideals. The Age of Reason devolved into the Age of Metternich. In 1824, when ordinary Austrians could be arrested for saying the word "freedom" or gathering in unrelated groups, resurrecting Schiller's humanist anthem was downright subversive. Almost two centuries later, the Ninth's message retains its urgent relevance: music as the source and full expression of a radical—even revolutionary—communal joy.

"I really like the new basketball courts. It's going to be fun playing here," said eighth grader Roman Thomas.

We've made it to the final weekend of the regular season in St. Louis CITY SC's first year. A two-day block party adds to the excitement as St. Louis gears up for its first MLS playoff run.

Hundreds gathered at Topgolf's new Midtown location for its grand opening celebrations Friday evening.

The puppy, one of two stolen from a St. Louis County home, is expected to recover.

An investigation is underway after a pedestrian was fatally struck Friday evening on Interstate 270 in north St. Louis County.

Excited delirium is a very unique medical condition. It almost always kills its victims. The victims of this apparent sudden cause of death are almost always in the presence of police officers when they die. And the victims are almost always of a certain… type. A 2021 data analysis found that at least 56% of […]

An argument between two people led to a shooting Friday evening in Wentzville, police say.

It was all smiles Friday afternoon at Tower Grove Park as St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones helped cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts.  

A water main break caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages last summer for some northside families along Carter Avenue, many of whom are still seeking help from St. Louis City Hall.

A St. Louis County grand jury has indicted St. Louis firefighter Arnold Britt on one felony charge of receiving stolen property and one misdemeanor charge of fraudulent use of a credit/debit device.

A jury awarded $1.25 million to St. Louis man who suffered non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.