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The share of college students majoring in education has plummeted over the past 50 years: Needless to say, you don't need a degree in education to become a teacher. Most teachers have degrees in English or history or some other subject. Still.

The weather can fluctuate quite a bit this time of year, and we went from nicer conditions expected, to cloudy and raw.

A woman here was struck and killed by a freightliner truck Saturday.

The House and Senate face a May 10 deadline to finish the budget proposal.

"Gary is a Navy veteran and he lost all his Navy stuff stuff that is irreplaceable," a close friend shared.

Twenty-five students here were taken to a hospital Thursday after a carbon monoxide leak in the gymnasium.

Survey results indicate only 25% of people outside St. Louis believe we have a "good" or "excellent" startup friendly business community. One startup founder thinks they're wrong, and that we need to invest more.

Illinois State Police said investigators believed it was a semitruck that struck and killed the victim.

Paul McCartney is letting fans know that he more than approves of Beyoncé's cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird.” “I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird,’” McCartney shares on Instagram.…

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Missouri loses many of it medical school graduates to other states due to a lack of residency slots. State funds will support the addition of nine slots this year.

Business owners are looking forward to the influx of customers.

Denton Loudermill of Olathe, Kansas, sued state Sens. Rick Brattin, Denny Hoskins and Nick Schroer over messages accusing him of being a shooter and "illegal alien."

An endangered person advisory has been issued for a man who wandered from his group home late Wednesday afternoon.

Eric D. Johnson, 41, is facing a count of first-degree murder after police said he approached a woman downtown and asked her to help his girlfriend, 35-year-old Cherish Lappin.

After four rounds of voting, two companies remain in this year’s St. Louis Inno Madness contest: No. 14 Arcadian VertiGreens and No. 32 Connect will square off in the Inno Madness championship matchup.

It’s been a few years since I last did a “Let me rewrite that for you” post. This idea was first suggested by the brilliant press critic Dan Froomkin. Basically, when he finds a bit of journalistic malpractice, he rewrites it the way a good journalist would, to show why the original was so wrong. […]

State Sen. Denny Hoskins of Warrensburg returns to Politically Speaking to talk about his campaign for secretary of state — and the prospects of being able to legalize sports betting in Missouri. Hoskins is one of eight GOP contenders seeking to succeed Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.