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Javier Duren has worked for the St. Louis Cardinals for six seasons and while only 30 years old, it marks his second career in sports. Prior to joining the MLB team in 2018, Duren had a stint as professional basketball player following his graduation in 2015 from Yale University.

St. Louis drivers are notoriously crappy. But if you're as frustrated about it as one south city man, here's a story about justice being served that will leave you flush with civic pride. St. Louis Hills resident, who declined to give us his name so we're calling him "Tom," recently got fed up with drivers parking in his sister's officially designed handicapped spot.

The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) and the St. Louis Regional Freightway teamed up on August 10 to host a Rail Freight Tour to raise awareness of one of the nation’s largest rail hubs, with a focus on investment needs and opportunities for both freight and passenger rail and associated roads and bridges […]

ALTON - The ten schools in Alton Community Unit School District 11 welcomed students today for the start of the 2023-2024 school year. Blue skies and a few teary-eyed parents set the scene at Lovejoy Elementary, located at 1043 Tremont Street. Principal John Ducey greeted students at the front doors. One excited second-grader paused to give his dad a fistbump before heading in to find his new classroom. At Alton Middle School, a line of cars on College Avenue came to a stop as students were ushered across the crosswalk and onto campus. Alton High School was also bustling, with a row of buses at the sidewalk and dozens of upperclassmen pouring in from the parking lot. “We’re looking forward to a great school year,” Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner said. RiverBender.com wishes all students and teachers a safe, happy year!

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Prior to stepping down as St. Louis Circuit Attorney, one of Kim Gardner's last actions was filing a motion to vacate the 1991 murder conviction of Christopher Dunn.

Finance professor Jocelyn Evans first encountered a cryptocurrency ATM on the way to talk about financial education with students last fall. Evans stopped at a gas station on her way to Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas. She came across the machine with the word “BITCOIN” on the screen. Store staffers weren’t familiar with the […]

The post Kansas City has over 100 high-fee crypto ATMs, mostly in low-income neighborhoods appeared first on Missouri Independent.

McCarthy Building Companies has been selected by ICL, a leading global specialty minerals company, to build a $400 million state-of-the-art lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis. The new facility is expected to be the first commercial-scale LFP battery materials manufacturing plant in the United States and will serve as the […]

A new Dio box set has been announced. The Studio Albums: 1996-2004 will be released on September 22. As its title suggests, the package includes the Ronnie James Dio-led outfit's…

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The two other publicly known bidders are Esmark and Cleveland-Cliffs.

The ghost kitchen concept on Hampton Avenue can accommodate up to 22 kitchens.

An eighth St.Louis-area Starbucks store has unionized. Workers at Starbucks’ Page & Ball location in Maryland Heights saw a 14-3 vote in favor of union representation.

This post is about two indirectly related topics: the new Siteman Cancer Center building under construction on the Washington University School of Medicine/BJC campus and an update on my stage 4 kidney cancer. Let’s deal with the latter first. You may have noticed I’ve not posted in three months, this ...

Sources familiar with the investigation told 5 On Your Side the double shooting began as a drug deal.

Meet Tigger. This sweet boy can be adopted from Gateway pet guardians, and he is truly the sweetest striped boy.

Mercedes Mackay will co-anchor 'Today in St. Louis' on weekend mornings with Travis Cummings.