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Berkeley man beat 2-year-old boy to death, gets 15 years in prison
Dajuan Louden admitted to grabbing and punching the 2-year-old boy in Florissant.
Hope for St. Louis’ 911 system? Hiring is up after big pay raises
City officials say that since they gave dispatcher salaries a big boost in July, they’ve hired 26 new call-takers and welcomed back three who previously quit.
Missouri firm faces accusations it polluted drinking water in Bootheel town
SRG Global Coatings is accused of having released hexavalent chromium, chromium, nickel and per- and polyfluorinated substances, or PFAS, in Portageville.
Parts of the world have already grown too hot for human survival
Even more areas will face such conditions as the planet continues to warm from fossil fuel combustion.
WashU to adopt 'no-loan' financial aid policy in 2024
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It Don't Mean a Thing (if it Ain't Got the STL Swing Harmonists) on Monday
If you've dreamed of learning how to swing dance, or just getting better at it, STL Swing has you covered. Show up at the Link Auditorium (4504 Westminster Place, 314-813-0009) at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, September 11, for a short introductory lesson. Then, from 7 to 9 p.m., the band STL Swing Harmonists plays — and we should note this is a group with but one stated purpose: "To make your dancing feel better and easier."
Nieghbor faces charges after accidentally firing gun into Bel-Ridge home
Judge Blocks Prosecutor From Using Unconstitutional Anti-Drag Law To Arrest People During Pride Festival
It’s great to see hateful people being shut down by little things like, you know, the Constitution. Would that it happened more frequently. Or, more hopefully, would that the mere existence of the Constitution prevent hateful legislators from passing hateful laws that have zero chance of surviving a constitutional challenge. It’s the land of the […]
Three new songs preview the late Jimmy Buffett’s new album, ‘Equal Strain on All Parts’
Jimmy Buffett may be gone, but his music lives on, and he's helping fans "keep the party going," which is exactly what he wanted them to do. Buffett passed away on…
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Sexual assault survivors can now track their rape kits in most states
It can take hours for a sexual assault victim to undergo the multiple swabs, hair samples, blood and urine collections, and other invasive procedures of a sexual assault examination. And then it can take months, sometimes years, for investigators to process that evidence kit. But now, responding to demands from survivors and their advocates, more […]
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What gas prices and vehicle sales are looking like in St. Louis and Missouri
Check out the peaks and valleys in volatile local gas prices, and track motor vehicle sales, financing and production.
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St. Louis Renaissance Festival starts soon! Weekends Sept 16th - Oct 22nd plus Monday Oct. 9th!
FOX 2 photographer run over after community threatens to tow cars
Tennessee Williams Festival Kicks Off With a Riveting ‘Suddenly Last Summer'
Sebastian Venable was a dilettante, a poet from a privileged New Orleans family who wrote just one poem a year, which he “printed himself on an eighteenth-century hand-press at his atelier in the French Quarter,” in the words of his adoring mother Violet. He professed no desire for fame in his lifetime; his mother was supposed to attend to that after his death.