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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service saw a successful tax filing season, providing high levels of customer service, enforcing collection from the wealthy and launching a free filing option for taxpayers, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told tax writers on Capitol Hill Tuesday. The agency “met or exceeded” goals for the filing season and “successfully” […]

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It is St. Louis County's first move to spend the settlement money.

The group of Republicans held the floor into Tuesday evening and over night, stalling a vote on the tax to force action on unrelated legislation.

Creating community is at the heart of owner Lydia Crespo's new venture.

For the first time since the City of St. Louis accused her of masterminding a massive illegal rooming house scheme, Dara Daugherty took the stand in court yesterday, telling a judge that she no longer owns one of her portfolio's most squalid holdings. Daugherty testified she recently sold the home with the Dutch gambrel roof on Virginia Avenue, a nuisance property that was the bane of its neighbors and where the city claims Daugherty housed an ad-hoc, unpaid labor force that worked on her slum empire's "fixer-upper" properties. Yesterday’s hearing came as part of the city’s ongoing civil lawsuit against Daugherty and five of her family members and associates who are accused of running an illegal rooming house scheme that spanned 39 properties across nine south city neighborhoods.

Art Saint Louis--a nonprofit art organization and gallery located in downtown St. Louis for 40 years--presents our Spring 2024 art exhibition, "Window to the Soul." This juried show is on […]

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The man suffered a leg injury that might have been caused by broken glass.

For several decades, major wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile collected vast troves of sensitive user location and movement data, then sold access to any random nitwit with two nickels to rub together. The result was a parade of scandals wherein everybody from stalkers to law enforcement (or pretending to be law enforcement) abused the […]

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis on Tuesday unveiled a brand new facility to help solve our region's food crisis. It's the first and only Urban League in the country to have a greenhouse and hydroponic farm at its headquarters. The project is called George Washington Carver Urban Farming. The Missouri native is regarded as one of the most prominent Black scientists of the early 20th century. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and local leaders gathered Tuesday afternoon for the ribbon cutting. The…

St. Louis County lawmakers on Tuesday allocated $40 million in Rams settlement money for subdivision paving projects.

GOP leaders failed to bring up a bill to authorize at least $1 billion in bonds to cover the entire cost of building each new stadium before lawmakers adjourned.

George and Cheryl are joined by Chris Bertke of Vegan Deli & Butcher, "the reigning OG of local vegan restaurant chefs," according to George.

In an uncertain landscape, Boeing’s recent acquisition of the GKN Aerospace facility in Hazelwood stands as a beacon of hope for American manufacturing, write IAM executives Brian Bryant and Sam Cicinelli.

ST. LOUIS -- An officer fired a gunshot at an armed man in the Baden neighborhood Wednesday morning. The incident happened in the 700 block of Ponce Avenue. Police say that the man has a knee injury, but it is still unclear whether a bullet struck him. Officers were initially called to the area to [...]