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Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012.

The incident started with a reported shooting at a Mobil gas station in East St. Louis.

A group in California is hoping to make financial literacy a requirement in high school: The plan is to make all high school students, as a condition of graduation, take at least a one-semester class in financial literacy.... Petition organizers said Tuesday that they are submitting nearly 900,000 signatures to county registrars across the state ...continue reading "Do we really need a financial literacy requirement in high school?"

Crosby, Stills & Nash will be the subject of a tribute concert in New York City this May, and we now know the artists who'll be on hand to celebrate their legendary catalog.The Music…

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The CEO's compensation increased to $25.1 million last year, including $24.8 million in income allocated to partners.

As the debate over Section 702 continues, more weird stuff keeps happening. For once, there’s serious opposition to a clean renewal, and it’s coming from both sides of the legislature. Then there are things like this, which is one of the stranger incidents to accompany a surveillance fight, as reported by Dell Cameron for Wired. […]

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Convention officials have promised customers that key improvements will be done by next spring.

Intense storms that swept Missouri and Kansas on Wednesday brought whipping winds, possible tornadoes — and what some described as “gorilla hail.”

Macoupin County elementary and high school students were forced to shelter in place as they got off the bus Thursday morning.

More bad news on the inflation front. The Producer Price Index, which measures wholesale prices, surged in February. Goods remain below their peak prices of 2022 but spiked up 15.5% between January and February on an annualized basis. Services continued their steady rise and were up 3.6%. PPI tends to be volatile, and two-thirds of ...continue reading "PPI inflation index jumps in February"

Paul Simon revealed in May that he had lost hearing in his left ear, making it difficult for him to play live, but it sounds like things are changing for…

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Parishioners thought they had more time to save St. Roch and Little Flower schools from the downsizing of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Strong storms have produced the threat of tornadoes and strong winds.

The Hazelwood East High School student whose brutal assault gained national attention this week has suffered brain bleeding and swelling, a skull fracture, frontal lobe damage and other injuries.

Two of three municipalities that employ Wesley Bell’s chief of staff still haven’t provided copies of records of his invoices.

Deaths continue to outpace births in the St. Louis region, and not enough new residents are coming to offset it.