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ST. LOUIS – St. Louis police are investigating after shots were fired late Tuesday afternoon at District 6 officers. The shooting occurred just before 5:10 p.m. in the 5900 block of Ferris Avenue, located in the Mark Twain I-70 Industrial neighborhood. Police claim officers did not return fire and detained three suspects. No injuries were [...]

The stretch of seven run-down buildings along Oakland and South Kingshighway has sat vacant for decades.

St. Louis County police were called in to help the U.S. Marshals Service take a "wanted suspect" into custody Tuesday morning.

by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum carries the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular feature. The […]

Police officers were shot at Tuesday evening in the city's Mark Twain I-70 Industrial neighborhood. No injuries were reported.

Crews are now demolishing a row of vacant houses along Kingshighway Boulevard in St. Louis to make way for a new development.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson is dispatching 200 National Guardsmen and 22 troopers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol to the U.S.-Mexican border.

Generative AI continues to be the hot topic in the digital world – and beyond. A previous blog post noted that this has led to people finally asking the important question whether copyright is fit for the digital world. As far as AI is concerned, there are two sides to the question. The first is whether generative AI systems […]

Today I learned that the San Francisco Fed performs daily tracking of economic news sentiment. Here it is since the end of the Great Recession: The index is currently at 0.17, roughly equal to the peaks between 2014 and 2020. However, it only rose above zero about three months ago. It took a long time ...continue reading "Media coverage of the economy has finally broken into positive territory"

The St. Louis Zoo is in full-preparation mode for their first ever 'Animals Aglow' lantern festival, taking place next month.

What do Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Bayard Rustin have in common? They are all Black American trailblazers that have had their queerness understated or erased from their identities or in the retelling of their influence in pivotal historic moments — and they are far from the only ones. Tre’von Griffith co-founded werQfest with his husband, Shelton Boyd-Griffith, to uplift Black, queer artists in St. Louis. For this year’s Black History Month, their mission has expanded with the introduction of the digital campaign, “Black, But Make It Queer.”

The community continues to grieve for a mother and her four children who were found dead after a fire ripped through their Ferguson home.

A Democratic filibuster that stretched more than 20 hours ended Tuesday when Senate Republicans stripped provisions critics derided as “ballot candy” from a proposal to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments proposed by initiative petitions. By an 18-12 vote, with nine Republicans joining nine Democrats in the majority, language that stated non-citizens could not […]

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