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Like his child, Dusty Farr says he also changed. “There’s the dead me. And then there’s the new me.”

The Biden administration is trying to punish Lee County for rebuilding flood-prone homes. The state’s Republican politicians are fighting back.

Activists found more than 5,000 trucks and buses passing through a single neighborhood in a day.

Some estimates said one-fourth of the city's 160,000 people turned out for the funeral on April 16, 1858.

Delmar Boulevard is one of St. Louis’s best known streets, stretching over 10 miles from just outside Laclede’s Landing downtown to the western edge of University City. For six blocks after it leaves the St. Louis City boundary, it’s known as the Delmar Loop—a reference to an early streetcar line that would make a loop …

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I reran this post a little over a year ago so many of my readers will remember it.  It’s one of my all time favorites.  I have many new eyes on this blog so I’ve decided to run it again. Maplewood History: A Hunk, A Hunk of Burning… Hobby? There is just a wealth of […]

Terrance D. Mahone was charged late Monday with one count of unlawful use of a weapon following a standoff with police in a parking garage under City Hall.

Nick Blair of Wood River, IL joined the Real Rock Army today

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Return to a time when steamboats ruled the river. The one-hour narrated riverfront cruise aboard the Riverboats at the Gateway Arch explores the history of downtown St. Louis, including the […]

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After seven months of closed-door meetings, a report was released late Monday night by a bipartisan group of lawmakers regarding the ethics complaint filed against House Speaker Dean Plocher. The group has been meeting since the fall to discuss a complaint filed by another House member. The report was rejected, but [...]

Madeleine Kearns says this about abortion over at National Review: The pro-life side can afford to acknowledge the best pro-choice arguments — a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, the intense difficulties an unplanned pregnancy can cause, the asymmetry of reproduction between the sexes, etc. They have counter-arguments for each of them. But the pro-choice side ...continue reading "I acknowledge that pro-life folks think abortion is murder. I just don’t believe it."

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - After a standoff Monday morning with St. Charles Police, an O'Fallon man has now been charged. Terrance Mahone, 42, is facing one charge of unlawful use of a weapon, according to officials. A release states that the victim entered her vehicle in the St. Charles City Hall parking garage and sat [...]

"It was a really bad accident. You could hear them screaming. I immediately had to help," said Keosha Tillman.

A police department spokesman said seven of the protesters were arrested, and prosecutors intend to seek charges of unlawful assembly and trespassing.

The sinkhole has increased in diameter since first discovered, making the area unsafe for travel, Illinois Department of Transportation officials said.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - With less than five weeks until the final adjournment in Jefferson City, there's still an important multi-billion-dollar tax to renew, impacting more than a million Missourians. It's a key piece of funding that could put the state's Medicaid program in jeopardy if it's not renewed. Some Senate Republicans say before taking [...]