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Wentzville’s Ratchet Rockers robotics team is one of the country's best. But the team of 32 students from schools across the city wants to be the best in the world.

Persistently high interest rates have led Missouri lawmakers to significantly expand a state loan program for farmers and small businesses. Lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill that raises the amount of state funds available to support low-interest loans.

Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill to expand K-12 private school scholarships statewide and pump hundreds of millions of dollars more into public schools. The scholarship accounts are funded by private donors in exchange for tax credits.

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats on Thursday began coalescing behind Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to provide assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan through a series of three bills, though far-right members of his own party grew increasingly frustrated with the Louisianan’s bipartisan streak. Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is leading an effort […]

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Chancellor says students involved in "disruptive behavior" in the March 21 incident — which included throwing eggs — had been referred to "the university student conduct process."

"The verdict represents the judgment of the community," Judge Michael Noble said Thursday. "The jury found that this was not an accident."

As temperatures warm up over the next several months, you may want to change up your ride and take a trip in the back of a pickup truck.

The solar eclipse may not have washed away the rain, but it did push Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" to #1 on a Billboard chart.The Superunknown single saw an increase of 34%…

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a St. Louis police officer Wednesday who accused her former department of transferring her to another location because she is a woman.

The owners of the St. Louis Cardinals are preparing to make a big ask of its fans – a proposition that will likely amount to asking taxpayers to help fund renovations to Busch Stadium. Economists are skeptical that such investments benefit their communities. In this episode, we talk with freelance journalist Eric Berger about his story on the topic which was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund.

Allman Brothers Band has paid tribute to founding member Dickey Betts, who passed away Thursday at the age of 80.“With deep sadness the Allman Brothers Band learned today that founding…

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Let’s say I told you a harrowing story about a crime. Criminals from halfway around the world used fraudulent means and social engineering to scam a teenager, causing them to effectively destroy their lives (at least in the mind of the teen). The person whose life was destroyed then took an easily accessible gun from […]

A Belleville, Illinois, man was charged earlier this week in connection with a fatal shooting this past weekend.

A study conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), commissioned by Congressman Bobby Scott (D-Virginia), has unveiled concerning trends regarding the representation of Black and Hispanic faculty members in higher education institutions.

An ad firm is taking legal action against ex-employees who launched their own agency.

Krilogy Financial LLC, a Creve Coeur-based wealth management firm, has acquired a locally based advisory firm through a merger and set a growth goal for the next two to three years.