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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — On a Saturday night in Springfield, a line of queer kids snakes into a scene lit like a VHS memory. This is “Closet Space,” a micro-budget dating game show and community-grown media experiment. Lindsey Goodhart, the show’s creator, grew up in St. Louis, came to Missouri State University (MSU) in 2020, and [...]

A St. Louis Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant for a woman accused of driving impaired and causing a fatal crash in north city last May.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared likely Tuesday to keep in place laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams. The outcomes from the nation’s highest court expected later this year could have sweeping implications for transgender rights more broadly as President Donald Trump’s […]

I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of “disinformation telephone” gets played. Let’s walk through it, because understanding how this works is important. The game works like this: Someone […]

PIASA — Maci Timpe, a senior libero for the Southwestern Piasa Birds, concluded her volleyball career in the fall of 2025 after demonstrating consistent improvement throughout the season. Timpe’s development on the court earned her recognition as the Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for the Piasa Birds. Southwestern head girls volleyball coach Derek Dempsey praised Timpe’s growth, noting her enhanced ability to read angles and anticipate plays

Some new music from Bryan Adams is on the way.The rocker announced that he’s contributed three songs to the soundtrack of the new animated film Charlie the Wonderdog, with the…

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Gov. Mike Kehoe wants voters to determine whether Missouri should completely phase out its income tax and replace it with an expanded sales tax, leaving details on how to do it for lawmakers to decide next year. Kehoe laid out the plan in his annual State of the State address to a joint session of […]

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe will outline his budgetary priorities in his second State of the State address Tuesday afternoon.

Influenza continues to spread throughout the City, state

One person is dead and two others are hurt after a crash Tuesday afternoon on a Jefferson County highway, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

In an email last week, Saint Louis University demographer Ness Sandoval said new federal projections confirm a demographic shift already affecting the St. Louis region and much of the country. Citing the Congressional Budget Office’s The Demographic Outlook: 2026–2056, Sandoval highlighted a key finding from the report: starting in 2030, annual deaths in the United […]

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From Construction Dive: Construction job openings jumped in November after hitting an “extraordinarily low level” in October, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Construction employers reported 292,000 job openings on the last day of November, up 90,000 from October and 15,000 higher than the same […]

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EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 Board of Education learned more about the district’s ridership audit amid conversations about changing the school start times and transitioning to a seven-period day at the high school. Over the past year, community members have advocated for and against changing the start times to accommodate seven class periods in high school students’ schedules. During their work session on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, Interim Superintendent

GODFREY – Two individuals face felonies in Madison County after an alleged burglary and theft from a business in Godfrey. Kevin D. Ingram III, 21, of St. Louis, and Maurice D. Brown Jr., 22, of East St. Louis, were both charged with Class 2 felony counts of burglary and Class 3 felony counts of retail theft over $300. Brown was charged on Jan. 7, 2026, while Ingram was charged the next day on Jan. 8 in two related cases. Both allegedly knowingly entered The Dugout on Godfrey Road on Dec

From Construction Dive: Construction planning momentum finished the year strong largely due to the strength of familiar drivers, including data centers, according to Dodge Construction Network. The Dodge Momentum Index, which tracks nonresidential construction projects entering the planning stages, jumped 7% in December. The figures lead actual construction spending by a full year, and show […]

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ALTON — Monica Klockenkemper, a senior runner for Alton High School, concluded her fall 2025 cross country season with notable performances, highlighted by a personal best time of 19:46.1 for three miles at the IHSA 3A Regional meet held at Belleville West. Her time earned her 26th place in the competition. Klockenkemper also competed at the IHSA 3A Sectional meet at Normal Community, finishing with a time of 20:23.7. Earlier in the season, she posted a time of 22:06.7 to place 16th a

The Missouri Supreme Court has denied Craig Wood's appeal to have his death sentence overturned, affirming the lower court's decision that his trial counsel was not ineffective and that the defense failed to show good reason to disqualify the prosecutor and trial judge.