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Bruce Springsteen’s classic solo album Nebraska is being celebrated with a special show in Nashville. Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: Celebrating A Rough Masterpiece will take place Tuesday, September 19, at Analog at the Hutton…

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Food pantries at local St. Louis Colleges are reporting an increase in student visits. Shannon Quinn, case manager at UMSL's Advocacy and Care Center, and Jo Britt-Rankin discuss changes to federal food assistance programs and how University Missouri campuses are helping students secure their basic needs.

For more than 24 hours, the region’s largest criminal justice database system was offline, making it difficult for police officers, jails and other law enforcement agencies to operate throughout the St. Louis area. The Regional Justice Information Service, also known as REJIS, experienced a “security incident,” at about 3 p.m. Monday, and was turned off into Tuesday afternoon, said REJIS CEO Ryan Burckhardt. On Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the company confirmed that service was restored. “We…

EDWARDSVILLE - After 19-year-old Adam Behrhorst’s passing, his loved ones knew they needed to do something in his honor to help other families dealing with pediatric cancer. They came up with the Go Gold Kid’s Fest for Childhood Cancer, a fun fall morning with tons of activities. From 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 16, families are invited to Liberty Apple Orchard in Edwardsville, where Adam used to work. Proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society (ACS), with funds specifically directed to childhood cancer research. “I think I can safely say that cancer has touched everyone, in one way or another,” said Patty Barney, senior development manager for ACS in the Metro East area. “It’s really important to grow this event and for people to come and have fun and really make it child-centric and really have the kids out there. Last year, they had a great time.” Liberty Apple Orchard , located at 8308 Kuhn Station Road, will sponsor games, food,

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We opened Pedego St. Louis in June, 2019 by rehabilitating an old, run-down building adjacent to Grant's Trail in Oakland.  From our location, we meet and talk to cyclists and trail users every day.

The post Two Lifetime Advocates Making St. Louis Better for People Who Bike, Walk and Roll appeared first on Trailnet.

Police in Troy, Illinois, are investigating a homicide involving a 60-year-old woman.

The fate of two buildings along the Mill Creek Valley footprint — the historic, predominantly Black neighborhood that was raised in 1959 to make way for “urban renewal” in downtown St. Louis — has sparked calls for protest this week after t St. Louis University submitted a proposal for demolition to the city of St. Louis. Vivian Gibson, author of “The Last Children of Mill Creek, shares her thoughts and experiences with attempts to preserve and honor her childhood neighborhood.

Gov. Mike Parson prevailed on all his vetoes Wednesday when the state Senate refused to consider any of the 14 budget overrides approved by the Missouri House. The House achieved two-thirds votes to override vetoes on 10 budget lines providing raises for the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Capitol Police Department. The other successful […]

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Missouri lawmakers have failed to override any of the governor's $555 million in budget cuts. The state Legislature convened Wednesday for its annual veto session.

A St. Louis man admitted to eight criminal charges, some in connection with the death of a De Smet Jesuit High School football coach in 2017.

Back in June, Paul McCartney sat down for a chat with Stanley Tucci at the National Portrait Gallery in London to promote McCartney’s photo exhibit, Paul McCartney, Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm. The event was…

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MSHP identified the driver of the motorcycle as 61-year-old Debra Fitzgerald from Fenton.

You don’t expect an art museum to be the place you take your shoes off and sink your toes into some lush carpeting. But that’s exactly the setup for Hajra Waheed’s installation Hum, which opened as part of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ fall exhibits over the weekend.

A new report finds that Indigenous peoples made up more than a third of those deaths.