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The new Starbucks would occupy about 2,400 square feet and feature a drive-thru lane.

For decades, U.S. cable and broadband giants have advertised one price, then socked consumers with a much higher price once the bill actually arrives. This is usually accomplished via a bevy of bullshit below the line fees specifically built for the purpose. Like “regulatory recovery fees,” which ambiguously blame government for prices hikes due to […]

WASHINGTON — A U.S. House appropriations panel reviewed the Biden administration’s request to increase the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget for fiscal 2025 Thursday, with Republicans asking pointed questions about a proposal to boost a popular low-income nutrition program. The hearing came less than two weeks after Congress passed a months-delayed appropriations bill for the USDA for […]

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Despite setbacks in both the House and Senate leading up to legislative spring break, proponents of bills seeking to end Missouri’s practice of seizing Social Security benefits from foster children expect to regain momentum on the issue when lawmakers return to Jefferson City next week. In the Senate, GOP state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder of […]

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Congress faces a midnight deadline to keep part of the government from shutting down. Lawmakers are meeting around the clock in hopes to pass a spending bill.

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republican leaders have spent the last year holding up a broadly bipartisan, Senate-approved bill that would repeal the authorizations for use of military force from the 1990s and early 2000s that were intended for the wars in Iraq. The Senate approved the legislation following a 66-30 vote last March, but it has remained stalled in […]

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Dining editor George Mahe is a fan, on one condition, while another member of SLM's dining team calls Peeps "the candy corn of Easter."

Violators could be fined double the fees in the new safety enforcement area near Wren Avenue and Sulphur Spring Road.

This home is located in the La Hacienda neighborhood

Rachel Wallis Andreasson, executive director of Congregation Temple Israel synagogue, is one of the book’s co-authors, while Ali Kindle Hogan, founder of Rung for Women, wrote the book’s foreword.

Rouge Bistro — the heavily meatball-themed restaurant inspired by the Meatball Shop in New York City — bounced into Midtown last month, claiming a space formerly occupied by Olive Bar at 3037 Olive Street. Owner Julian Davis has set a dazzling stage. Splashed in bright red paint, industrial-ceilinged and lit like a New York catwalk, Rouge Bistro is a gobsmacker even without the waterfall at the entrance.

A new cannabis seltzer created in St. Louis by two former students of the Washington University School of Business has made its debut. Triple THC-infused seltzers come in three flavors — lime, cherry-lemon and grapefruit — and contain 3 milligrams of THC per can. The company uses hemp-derived delta-9 THC, meaning it’s legal under the federal Farm Bill and can be purchased outside dispensaries.

A pattern of up-and-down temperatures over the last several days will likely continue into the weekend. In the short-term future, that looks like highs in the mid-60s on Friday and highs in the mid-50s on Saturday.

The Royals, vying for support weeks before voters will decide whether to promise them decades of tax money, are finalizing terms to give Kansas City Public Schools money to offset the loss of property taxes. The team’s plans for a stadium and entertainment district in the East Crossroads would swallow up six blocks of real […]

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Damon Davis has worked in many art forms, including sculpture, painting and film. His latest work is a multi-genre opera inspired by Afrofuturism.

On March 22, 1976, Elvis Presley played what would be his final show in St. Louis. Here was our original review.

At least one person was hurt in a rollover crash Friday morning in south St. Louis.

Two people were shot in an apparent rolling gun battle Thursday evening in north St. Louis County.

A 19-year-old man died in an early-morning house fire Friday in East St. Louis.