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If approved, Missouri would join Florida in allowing executions for child rape — despite current U.S. Supreme Court precedent against such executions.

A bill that would add child sex trafficking and statutory rape to the crimes eligible for the death penalty was debated Monday in a Missouri Senate committee — despite conflicting with U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The legislation is sponsored by state Sen. Mike Moon, an Ash Grove Republican who said Monday that one of the […]

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The lawsuit brought by Rep. Justin Hicks came in the weeks following a Post-Dispatch article on the allegations posted to challenge Max Calfo’s website.

St. Luke’s Hospital, the Chesterfield-based, two-hospital health system, has hired a new executive to succeed a retiring chief financial officer.

An accused burglar is facing charges related to eight separate incidents over the past five weeks in St. Louis County.

The U.S. Justice Department has started a criminal investigation into the Boeing 737 Max midair door plug blowout.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey this month sued a Florida real estate firm, alleging it used high-pressure tactics to sell residents brokerage services.

The HFW Companies (HFW), a growing, St. Louis-based professional services firm targeting the architecture, engineering and construction sector for investments, has expanded with an acquisition in Texas.

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There may be a new female supergroup on the way.Variety reports that during the 2024 Pop Conference at USC on Friday, March 8, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, best known…

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As a graphic video of a fight near Hazelwood East High School continued to circulate online, court officials declined to comment on closed juvenile court proceedings.

A St. Louis County man has been charged in connection with a December 2023 carjacking in Shrewsbury.

Every year, the President lays out the administration’s major agenda in the State of the Union address. For those of us who cover tech policy, there’s always some fear that something dumb will be said. In the last couple of years, Biden pushed nonsense moral panics about the evils of the internet. So, in some […]

A Jefferson County Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant for a man accused of exposing himself to others at his apartment building.

Today on TAP: There will be no deal in time for the beginning of Ramadan tonight, and Netanyahu’s defiance keeps bleeding both Gaza and Biden’s re-election chances.