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The department's fire investigators and the St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson team are investigating.

Jon Bon Jovi is set to appear at February's Pollstar Live! conference, HitsDailyDouble reports. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has joined the conference’s February 7 panel called How To See a Million Faces and…

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ALTON - A man from Alton is facing five total felonies including residential burglary, criminal trespass, and damage to a property in Wood River, as well as attempting to elude a police officer and more, according to recently filed Madison County court documents. Steven L. Copenhaver, 33, of Alton, allegedly committed these offenses on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. His burglary of a property in Wood River resulted in the residential burglary and trespass charges. He also reportedly threw a brick through the victim’s window, causing damages in excess of $500. According to a petition to deny Copenhaver’s pretrial release, he reportedly threw the brick through the victim’s window and entered their property while they were sleeping. “Victim reports that the defendant demanded return of some of his property, then tried to take the victim’s phone as she called for police,” the petition continues. “He then fled and led police on a high speed pursuit.

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A St. Louis man is now serving a federal prison sentence for stalking multiple women across the country.

A community is grieving the loss of two children after a home explosion Friday morning.

The husband-and-wife duo behind Brew Tulum, a Central West End specialty coffeehouse and Mexican eatery that in November shuttered its doors, are suing their landlords amid a dispute over lead contamination.

A federal judge has granted Terrence Shannon Jr. a temporary restraining order against the University of Illinois, clearing him to return to the basketball court immediately.

Join our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1928! » The latest edition of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1928, is well underway. As always, we’re calling on designers of all stripes and all levels of experience to put this year’s newly public domain works to use in digital and analog […]

A pool table once owned by rocker Janis Joplin is now up for auction. Coinciding with what would have been Joplin’s 81st birthday on Friday, January 19, Julien’s Auctions announced the launch of…

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The tax policymakers of the GOP-led U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means voted 40-3 to send the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, or H.R. 7024, to the House for a full floor vote. The Biden administration is “encouraged” and “pleased” with the committee’s vote, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday. The framework, […]

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What a bunch of fucking idiots: House Republicans wrapped up impeachment hearings against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on Thursday.... Republicans are moving ahead without evidence that Mr. Mayorkas has committed high crimes or misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment, effectively seeking to remove him for immigration policies they argue have imperiled the ...continue reading "Republicans are drooling over hope of Homeland Security impeachment"

Schnucks started stocking the all-star's salsa on shelves in 2018 but has since stopped. Here's what it said about restocking it.

The return of bitter temperatures throughout the country on Friday caused some delays and cancellations for those flying.

Voters could possibly decide on a half-cent sales tax increase in Kirkwood later this year for the creation of a transportation development district.

The individuals running a years-long, illegal rooming house operation appear to have been enabled in part by the way the city handles occupancy inspections for rental properties, a system that city officials say they hope to begin the process of reforming.  This week saw the city of St. Louis drop a bombshell of a lawsuit against Dara Daugherty, Keith Mack, four other people and a whole host of LLCs they control.

ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis has been charged with five separate counts of child pornography in addition to one count of attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to recently filed Madison County court documents. Terry M. Gerard, 46, of St. Louis, allegedly committed the child pornography offenses on or about Jan. 4, 2024, while the attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse charge stems from an incident that occurred late last year. According to a petition to deny Gerard’s pretrial release, the underage victim of the attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse allegedly reported the incident to the Madison County Sheriff’s Department on Dec. 14, 2023. Deputies found evidence of an additional crime after seizing Gerard’s cell phone. “Deputies seized the defendant's cellphone and pursuant to a search warrant conducted a forensic download,” the petition states. “Upon analysis of that download, deputies found the defendant to be

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The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to its lowest level in more than a year. Here is the most recent jobs and unemployment data for St. Louis.