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Of the many challenges confronting the nation’s aging, straining electric grid, the need for a lot of new transmission capacity is among the most pressing, experts and policymakers say. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Energy said the nation will need thousands of miles of new lines to better link regions to handle extreme […]

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The incident happened at the Coronado Place and Towers near St. Louis University's campus, the school's department of public safety said.

Probably the safest place you can be during a heat wave is inside a hospital.

Authorities have named the BTK serial killer as the “prime suspect” in two unsolved killings — one in Oklahoma and another in Missouri — leading authorities to dig this week near his former Kansas property this week.

Officers responded shortly before 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Gateway rest area on eastbound Interstate 64 in St. Clair County.

School districts have announced early dismissals due to extreme heat and humidity in the area.

Demetrius Smother, 20, was charged last month in connection with the fatal shooting of Jaylin Johnson. He was arrested Tuesday.

SATE (Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble) re-tells Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagining if the Mechanicals were rehearsing a play about the star-crossed lovers Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. Meanwhile, Puck, […]

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The Missouri History Museum on Wednesday opened The Key Bistro, a French-inspired eatery located inside the museum at 5700 Lindell Blvd., in the second-floor space formerly occupied by Cafe St. Louis.

The Loop Trolley is expected to run on Saturday and Sunday.

Preliminary test scores show Missouri students are still not performing as well in school as they were before the pandemic.

The acquisition is subject to approval by the U.S. government. Boeing and Indonesia’s Defense Ministry didn’t release the financial terms. The agreement was signed Monday at Boeing’s plant in Berkeley by Air Vice Marshal Yusuf Jauhari, Head of Defense Facilities Agency, Indonesia Ministry of Defense; and Mark Sears, Boeing Fighters vice president and program manager.

A new paper estimates the number of gender surgeries performed over the period 2016-2020. Here's the breakdown by age: The total number of gender surgeries in the 12-18 age group was 3,678, nearly all of them breast/chest surgeries. The annual number of surgeries started at 200 in 2016 and rose steadily through 2019 before dropping ...continue reading "Raw data: Gender surgeries in the US"

Video obtained by 5 On Your Side showed the moment inmates assaulted the guard before holding him hostage for around two hours.