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Last week Amazon began charging Amazon Prime Video customers (who already pay $140 per year) an extra $3 extra per month to avoid ads that didn’t previously exist. One added wrinkle: apparently Amazon also pulled Dolby Vision and Atmos audio support from Prime Video unless users pay the additional toll to avoid ads, a change […]

Nonprofits in St. Louis grew operating budgets by 6% on average from 2023 to 2024, ranging from a 27% decline to a 32% growth.

Simploy in January 2025 plans to make a leadership transition, with Jay King’s son, Carson King, set to become CEO. He is one of several family members set to step into leadership roles.

The man accused of causing a crash that killed two tourists after a downtown St. Louis concert early Wednesday has been charged in their deaths.

The Show Me State now has the nation’s sixth-largest cannabis market.

The Kirkwood City Council is expected to consider a historic church's controversial request to permanently close part of a downtown street during its regular public meeting Thursday.

He argued his client was enveloped in the publicity surrounding the effort to remove former prosecutor Kimberly M. Gardner, and now he's the public's face of dangerous downtown driving.

Police identified Laticha Bracero and her daughter Alyssa Cordova as the two killed by a driver speeding and running red lights after a Drake concert at the Enterprise Center.

Most of the time, Black History Month recognition revisits the fights, struggles, strength, and resilience of black people on the long road to freedom and equality. On Friday, the Missouri History Museum is telling the stories of black joy and culture.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s days fighting criminal charges in two courts could be arriving soon. Special Counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday not to pause federal election interference proceedings and a New York state judge on Thursday set a late March trial date on charges related to hush money […]

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The gas-powered plant is planned for the confluence of the Meramec and Mississippi rivers, next to where the former Meramec Energy Center burned coal for decades.

A new proposal before Illinois lawmakers would allow terminally ill people to end their own lives with medication.

Moonstone Theatre Company begins its residency at the Robert G. Reim Theater with the St. Louis premiere of Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside. The riveting drama is given an impressive production directed by Gary Wayne Barker and featuring Sharon Hunter as tenured Yale Professor Bella Baird and Ryan Lawson-Maeske as Christopher Dunn, an earnest student who longs to write a great novel.

WASHINGTON — Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel told lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday that his agency is “poised to move quickly” on a bipartisan tax bill that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and revive several corporate tax breaks. But, he cautioned, taxpayers should not wait to file. The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act […]

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Terry Briggs, 68, died at his home of a sudden health complication, but an exact cause of death is unknown, his son Jeremy Briggs said Thursday.

A state senator from 2011 to 2019, Sam McCann formed the Conservative Party of Illinois to campaign for governor in 2018.

A stretch of Interstate 270 in Maryland Heights is back open now after it shut down early Friday morning. Someone hit a woman, then left the scene.

Schools in St. Louis and across the country focus on social isolation this Friday.

St. Louis aldermen consider a bill to regulate the commercial use of drones.