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From St. Louis Business Journal:  An electric vehicle battery manufacturer on the hunt for a location to build an $850 million manufacturing plant last year had narrowed its choices to two locations: Montreal, Quebec, and Herculaneum, a Jefferson County community 35 miles south of St. Louis. The Herculaneum site under consideration was a 300-acre tract […]

Sales at Anheuser-Busch InBev decreased by about $1.5 billion in North America last year amid a tumultuous year for its premier product, Bud Light, the company said Thursday during an earnings report.

Work crews are preparing to close lanes on northbound Interstate 55 at River Des Peres for rehab work on the overpass.

A former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice said the ‘highly political lawsuit’ presents the courts with a hypothetical question rather than a reality.

This effect may or may not be permanent, but a team of researchers in England has found that long COVID significantly reduces cognitive ability—and the longer the COVID the more it hurts: Six IQ points is no joke, though this loss is found only in the most extreme cases. On the other hand, these are ...continue reading "Long COVID is wrecking our IQs"

The new guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions.

Neil Young has added another show to his summer schedule.The rocker and his band Crazy Horse are set to play Ottawa Bluesfest, a nine-day festival that runs July 4-7 and July 10-14.…

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The plan to build a new MetroLink line connecting the city’s north and south sides won a critical vote from regional leaders on Wednesday. But it almost didn’t. The $1.1 billion project, aimed at connecting long-struggling city neighborhoods with opportunities in the thriving central corridor, ultimately dodged an attempt to derail […]

The appeal came just hours after Cook County Judge Tracie Porter issued her decision. She placed a hold on it until Friday to allow the expected appeal.

Two wildfires broke out Tuesday in Mark Twain National Forest, according to officials.

Rep. Mike McGirl said the legislation, which now goes to the Senate, would return to taxpayers about a quarter of the “windfall” that local governments received from the surge in vehicle values.

More than a dozen people spoke in support at the Board of Adjustment hearing, including musicians, patrons and a former Washington University student who lived in the area.

A teenager was hospitalized after a hit-and-run crash Tuesday evening in Bridgeton. Authorities have arrested a suspect accused in the collision.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit Thursday against Planned Parenthood, relying on a staged, edited video from a right-wing group to accuse the organization of illegally transporting minors out of state for abortions. The lawsuit is against Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which has clinics in the Kansas City region and Columbia. Bailey is […]

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Federal prosecutors charged two men in the shooting, one of which is still at large.

A quasi-governmental organization based in Missouri that services student loans is facing lawsuits and a scathing report from a pair of education organizations accusing it of gross mismanagement that needlessly resulted in borrowers losing thousands of dollars. The accusations against the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, better known as MOHELA, were laid out in a 47-page report released Wednesday by the American Federation of Teachers and the Student Borrower Protection Center, which…