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The move is part of a large C-suite shakeup at the aerospace and defense giant, which is one of the St. Louis region's largest employers.

WASHINGTON — The same U.S. Supreme Court that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion will hear oral arguments Tuesday over access to mifepristone, a pharmaceutical used in both medication abortion and miscarriage care. The nine justices will then decide whether to leave access to the drug intact or require the U.S. Food and Drug […]

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Andy Kim has not only pulled off a major upset. He may have transformed the political culture of an entire state.

Art Saint Louis presents "Varsity Art 28," our 28th annual exhibition highlighting works by 39 undergrad and grad level student artists representing 21 STL regional/area colleges and universities. This year's […]

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The district is testing "Here Comes the Bus" GPS tracking app on 14 school buses in the Fenton area.

The 16-year-old girl who suffered a skull fracture in an after-school fight was moved out of the hospital's intensive care unit two weeks after the brawl.

It’s nearly time for our monthly Meetup again.  Please join us on WEDNESDAY, March 27th any time from 6pm – … MoreMeetup At Afghan Kabob House

As the Vice and Messenger collapse just got done illustrating in glorious technicolor, the problem with online U.S. journalism isn’t that it’s inherently unprofitable. The problem is usually that the worst, least competent, shallowest people imaginable routinely fail upward into positions of management, then treat the brands they acquire like disposable napkins. That’s certainly been the case over at Sports […]

R.P. Lumber Co. Inc., one of the St. Louis region's largest privately held businesses, is expanding its footprint in Illinois with the purchase of another building materials retailer.

Brentwood’s new park is set to open, a Richmond Heights condo is on the market, and more in the news. Feast — Inside Scoop: The Benevolent King rebrands with Japanese-inspired menu St. Louis Magazine — Brentwood’s new destination playground opens April 6 St. Louis Post-Dispatch — 3 Bedroom Home in Richmond Heights – $575,000 — […]

A pair of AirPods and what lawyers say was some shoddy police work resulted in an innocent middle-class Ferguson family having their front door smashed in by the St. Louis County SWAT team last May. Around 6:30 p.m. on May 26, Brittany Shamily was at home with her children, including an infant, when police used a battering ram to bust in her front door. “What the hell is going on?” she screamed, terrified for herself and her family.

The phrase “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” applies to careers as well as motor vehicles. Whitney Kenter’s work to create Glowe Collective evolved directly from the work she did to turn her life around. "I founded Glowe Connective in 2020 because traditional business is broken. "Employees on average are disengaged. According to Gallup, only 36% of employees were engaged in 2020 (actually a result of numbers that had been trending up!) and have since fallen again. "In a 2022…

The company's specially-engineered slides do everything from launch riders into the air to land on foam mattresses and send them over multiple hills.

CLAYTON, Mo. -- The trial of Joseph Dejoie, the man accused of the death of Jacque Mitchell, starts this week. Mitchell was found dead in Dejoie's Maryland Heights apartment. Dejoie faces charges including second-degree murder, tampering with evidence, and abandonment of a corpse. Mitchell's family reported her missing from St. Charles in March of last [...]

When Heather Roth’s daughter, Margaret, asked to have cotton candy at her sixth birthday party instead of cake, she knew she had to make it happen.  “I had to figure out how the hell I was going to make cotton candy,” she says. “That’s basically how Rosie Cheeks and the whole concept of the cart started — by being an experience for her and her friends.”

The conservative outrage express is barreling hard toward the school board governing the Lindbergh School District, courtesy of a political action committee run by Martin Bennet, a Des Peres man who is the regional manager of an Internet services company that markets to schools. Direct mail flyers began appearing in the mailboxes of Lindbergh voters last week that were paid for by the St. Louis County Family Association Political Action Committee, which Bennett launched in January. The flyers promote the candidacies of David Randelman and David Kirschner, who are among the four candidates vying for the two seats on the eight-member board at stake in the April 2 election.

Missouri lawmakers return to the Capitol Monday with a long list of policy priorities still in flux and only eight weeks to get it all done before the legislative session ends in May. Yet despite a host of issues dominating debate during the first half of the session, the two top tasks lawmakers must complete […]

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A St. Louis jury has awarded $750,000 to Beverly Buck Brennan, the daughter of the late St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster, Jack Buck.

As we come to the close of Women’s History Month, we have remembered and celebrated women who have broken barriers and made contributions in many areas in our society. But where does motherhood fit among the contributions to be honored? Motherhood should be among the first professions and accomplishments to be recognized. Your immediate thought […]

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The body of a missing 19-year-old was found, shot Saturday, in an abandoned home. This discovery came days after Daniel Nunn's family reported him missing.