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House Speaker Dean Plocher joins STLPR's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg to talk about his bid to become Missouri's next secretary of state — and also the ethics controversies that have followed him over the last few months.

This year's Juneteenth for the STL Diamonds was full of celebration and history.

A bill to try and lure the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals across state lines is sitting on the governor's desk. Now, many are wondering: What is Missouri's plans?

The crowd’s energy was rising just as quickly as the heat at the CITYPARK Block Party Wednesday.

Free gas for old tires! As FOX 2 exposes an epidemic of illegally dumped tires in St. Louis, an alderwoman turns to desperate measures.

The suit claims caregivers hit the kids with paint-stirring sticks, dragged them on the ground and pulled a cot out from under a boy, causing him to hit his head.

Juneteenth has been celebrated across the nation Wednesday.

Peddling stolen refrigerators hoping to open a video store one day, King Hedley, an ex-con, toils with self-worth. Getting, spending, killing, and dying in a world where getting is hard […]

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In the Wall Street Journal today, former judge Michael McConnell tries to explain to us Democrats why Republicans are sticking with Donald Trump despite all the court cases against him. First he argues that the New York hush money case was bogus. Fair enough. It's an arguable point. But he also says this: Many Republicans ...continue reading "Trump is being prosecuted because . . . he broke a lot of laws"

The St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants are set to play a historic baseball game on Juneteenth, as the world mourns the passing of baseball legend Willie Mays, who is remembered as the greatest baseball player of all time.

A stretch of temperatures in the 90s and high humidity has prompted heat advisories for areas in the U.S. But here in St. Louis, we've remained below the criteria.

Louisiana has decided that all schools in the state should display the Ten Commandments: The law gives schools until Jan. 1 to display the Ten Commandments — religious and ethical directives outlined in the Bible — on “a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches” in every classroom. The ...continue reading "Thou shalt display the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments — if you’re a school in Louisiana"

Missouri is accused of putting adults with mental health disabilities in nursing facilities instead of providing community-based mental health services, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Justice.