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The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis is helping thousands prepare for the upcoming school year with the Urban Expo and Back to School Empowerment Festival.

Local Yellow Corp. employees are left with questions about health insurance and severance pay following the company’s abrupt closure this week.

Anyone who may have been exposed and is showing symptoms should contact their healthcare provider and avoid going to a healthcare facility without calling first.

Join Curator Tamara Schenkenberg for a tour of Faye HeavyShield: Confluences. Participants will view a selection of HeavyShield’s artwork from the 1980s to the present, including two new commissions responding to

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We’re celebrating the return of warmer weather by bringing live music to the streets of the Central West End! Every Friday night from 6-9 p.m., you can sip, shop and

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The city paid 84 people people detained at a 2017 protest in downtown St. Louis a total of $4.9 million — an average of more than $58,000 per person.

Missouri health officials are warning of possible measles exposures in St. Louis and St. Charles counties after learning of an internationally-imported confirmed case of measles.

Nationally, the gap in homeownership rates between whites and Blacks is at its highest in a decade at 29%, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The state of Texas was sued in a federal district court by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade group representing the adult entertainment industry, and a slate of other companies including subsidiaries of Canadian firm MindGeek (owner of Pornhub). Other plaintiffs include the parent companies of popular adult sites like XVideos and Bang Bros, and […]

At Castlewood State Park, the Meramec River isn’t impacting too much just yet. However, those levels are expected to crest just shy of the minor flood stage later this weekend. 

Get ready for another round of severe storms. The latest system rolling through the St. Louis region could hit hard late Friday evening and pose flood risks for some.

Renters told 5 On Your Side that whoever speaks up about the issues gets evicted.

The convention center has scheduled just 28 events in 2024 — among the lowest number of events the facility has booked in recent years.

EAST ST. LOUIS – A 15-year-old East St. Louis male has been charged with First-Degree Murder (a Class M Felony) and Aggravated Vehicular Hijacking (a Class X Felony). The Illinois State Police Public Safety Enforcement Group (PSEG) and St. Clair County State's Attorney's Office made the announcement about the charges Friday afternoon after what they described as a "thorough investigation." The 15-year-old is currently detained at the St. Clair Juvenile Detention Center. On Aug. 27, 2022, the East St. Louis Police Department requested ISP PSEG to conduct a death investigation. A female, later identified as 49-year-old Harriett Childers of St. Louis, was located in the 1800 block of Gaty Avenue with a gunshot wound. Childers was a full-time nurse and had been driving for a ride share when the shooting occurred. Childers was pronounced deceased on scene. ISP DCI was assisted by the East St. Louis Police Department, St. Clair County Coroner’s Office, ISP Crime Scene Services,

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Authorities on Friday charged a 15-year-old boy with murder in the shooting death of a ride share driver almost a year ago.

CHICAGO – An Illinois Lottery retailer in the Chicagoland area strikes again. A $700,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket was sold at Kostner Korner, located at 4356 W. Howard St. in Skokie. The Lucky Day Lotto ticket matched all five numbers for the Wednesday, August 2 midday drawing to take home the jackpot prize. The winning numbers were: 8-19-26-32-37. “Due to the big Mega Millions Jackpot, we’ve had a lot of new customers coming into the store to buy tickets so I’m not sure who might have bought the winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket,” said Bhupendra Patel, owner of Kostner Korner. “Whomever it is, I’m just very happy that one of our customers is a winner.” This is the second time the store has sold a winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket within the last five weeks. On June 30, a lucky player took home the jackpot prize - a cool $450,000. Kostner Korner is also one of the top 10 Illinois Lottery retailers in the state that have sold the most

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