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Police said Thursday a man was in custody.

St. Louis Music Park is getting set for the Amplified Echoes tour of Jimmy Eat World and the Manchester Orchestra on Thursday afternoon.

The victims gave the suspect a purse and jewelry, before he ran from the scene, police said.

"It's brutal out there. It’s our first time being a cooling center," Development Manager Tim Elwell said.

The U.S. Senate voted narrowly Thursday in favor of expanding a program that compensates Americans who become ill because of exposure to radiation from the country’s development and testing of nuclear weapons to cover Missourians. The proposal, offered by Sen. Josh Hawley, was attached as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes […]

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EDWARDSVILLE - Granite City senior-to-be point guard Trevon Bond is one of nine seniors who will be returning to the Warriors' basketball team this coming season and he thinks the veteran-laden and hard-working team will be among one of the best in the area in the 2023-24 season. Bond and his teammates were displaying their skills for college recruiters at the Edwardsville NCAA Live Showcase event in late June at Edwardsville High School's Lucco-Jackson Gym and at Liberty Middle School, playing against four high-quality opponents in Peoria Manuel, University City, CBC and Decatur MacArthur. In an interview conducted after the game against U. City, Bond felt that he and the Warriors played well in their first two games on Saturday. "I feel it's pretty good," Bond said. "It was pretty good competition that we're playing against. We've just got to keep working hard, keep playing as a team." It was a trademark of the Warriors last season to stick together, no matter what, and keep working

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Pictures taken by renowned rock photographer Danny Clinch are being turned into T-shirts. Among the photos featured in the launch lineup of Clinch Collections include shots of Eddie Vedder and…

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It's three numbers that can connect you with life-saving help, 988, and it went live one year ago for people in crisis, giving them the opportunity to connect quickly with a mental health specialist.

Hoyleton Youth and Family Services joined Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker Thursday to break ground on a construction project that will provide a new model of care for vulnerable youth.

Travone “TJ” Mister Jr. died on July 20, 2022, at the Kennedy Recreation Complex in unincorporated south St. Louis County near Arnold. A police report detailing his death revealed there was only one lifeguard on duty and dozens of children.

David Broder has a good piece in the New York Times today about the extremist right-wing government that's now running Italy. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has certainly moderated her rhetoric since being elected, he says, but underneath you'll still find the same old animating radicalism. This is particularly true of her government's animus toward migrants, ...continue reading "Italy’s problem with migrants is everybody’s problem"

The dangerous heat is putting extra stress on those who have to work outdoors in it every day. Some of those workers are MoDOT employees and their contractors working on the numerous road construction projects across town.

More than 23,000 lost coverage in June because of “procedural reasons,” including nearly 11,000 kids. About 9,200 participants were dropped because of increased income or other change in their status.

St. Louis County just settled a lawsuit over a 6-year-old's drowning at his summer camp last July.

And here we go again. We have been talking about both the concept of video game preservation being lost to the copyright gods, as well as how copyright often prevents fan-made creations and content around game franchises, for years and years now. Both topics are quite frustrating and both serve as examples of how copyright […]

Against the backdrop of the new feature film “Joy Ride,” three St. Louis residents who grew up in Metro St. Louis and near Kansas City, Missouri, talk about their personal experiences as Asian American transracial adoptees navigating identity, family and belonging.