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Police officers were shot at Tuesday evening in the city's Mark Twain I-70 Industrial neighborhood. No injuries were reported.

Crews are now demolishing a row of vacant houses along Kingshighway Boulevard in St. Louis to make way for a new development.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson is dispatching 200 National Guardsmen and 22 troopers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol to the U.S.-Mexican border.

Generative AI continues to be the hot topic in the digital world – and beyond. A previous blog post noted that this has led to people finally asking the important question whether copyright is fit for the digital world. As far as AI is concerned, there are two sides to the question. The first is whether generative AI systems […]

Today I learned that the San Francisco Fed performs daily tracking of economic news sentiment. Here it is since the end of the Great Recession: The index is currently at 0.17, roughly equal to the peaks between 2014 and 2020. However, it only rose above zero about three months ago. It took a long time ...continue reading "Media coverage of the economy has finally broken into positive territory"

The St. Louis Zoo is in full-preparation mode for their first ever 'Animals Aglow' lantern festival, taking place next month.

What do Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Bayard Rustin have in common? They are all Black American trailblazers that have had their queerness understated or erased from their identities or in the retelling of their influence in pivotal historic moments — and they are far from the only ones. Tre’von Griffith co-founded werQfest with his husband, Shelton Boyd-Griffith, to uplift Black, queer artists in St. Louis. For this year’s Black History Month, their mission has expanded with the introduction of the digital campaign, “Black, But Make It Queer.”

The community continues to grieve for a mother and her four children who were found dead after a fire ripped through their Ferguson home.

A Democratic filibuster that stretched more than 20 hours ended Tuesday when Senate Republicans stripped provisions critics derided as “ballot candy” from a proposal to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments proposed by initiative petitions. By an 18-12 vote, with nine Republicans joining nine Democrats in the majority, language that stated non-citizens could not […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A row of vacant, dilapidated houses on South Kingshighway that St. Louis officials had once wanted to preserve instead saw the wrecking ball on Monday. City Hall determined they were a threat to public safety. By midafternoon Monday, the crew from St. Louis-based Bellon Wrecking had flattened one of the seven […]

From REjournals:  The City of Olivette, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, officially cut the ribbon Nov. 5 on its new Five Oaks on Warson community center and a park maintenance facility designed by St. Louis-based KAI. Voter passage of Proposition C enabled the city to partially fund its 2018 Comprehensive Parks Master Plan for […]

From First Alert 4:  Development has surged in Kirkwood since 2020, especially in the last 18 months. There are multiple developers pouring millions into the land-locked town which is quickly aging, and Kirkwood leaders are trying to change that with development. But an emerging grassroots effort said all this building and millions of dollars are […]

From Construction Dive:  A coalition of building trade groups petitioned the White House Office of Management and Budget last week to clarify and adjust its implementation of Build America, Buy America requirements for construction materials, saying that they risk delaying and inflating the cost of infrastructure work as-is. BABA expands existing domestic preference requirements for […]

Southern Illinois Congressman Mike Bost announced an endorsement Tuesday from former U.S. President Donald Trump in his run for reelection.

From Leader Publications:  Nearly half a million dollars in federal funds have been allocated to buy out a handful of flood-damaged homes in De Soto. On Jan. 17, De Soto City Manager Todd Melkus received written notification that the city is eligible to receive up to $462,860.25 in federal funds to buy and demolish five […]

The Rolling Stones’ signature Crossfire Hurricane rum may be hitting your local liquor stores soon. The band has just signed a deal with Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits to distribute the…

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The addition of the two lawyers expands the St. Louis-based law firm's Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Finance, Employment, Real Estate and Estate Planning practices.

The swag was on overload Sunday afternoon at CITYPARK’s Ultra Club.

Missouri Children's Division Director Darrell Missey talks about where the massive backlog of child abuse and neglect case investigations stands, and other issues affecting children in the state. Last year, St. Louis Public Radio reported that the division's office serving St. Louis and St. Louis County had a backlog of 6,124 cases that remained open after 45 days. Missey describes the division's improvements since then, and where things stand now.