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The Urban League braves the rainy weather for their grill-to-glory kick-off rally.

The Pirate Party has long played an important role in fighting the worst excesses of copyright in the EU. For example, when a major copyright update was being discussed, the Pirate Party MEP Felix Reda wrote an insightful and practical report on what needed changing. Most of his recommendations were ignored in the final EU Copyright […]

On Thursday, police were searching for an arsonist in St. Louis City. Firefighters responded to a garage fire and a house fire early Thursday morning, just minutes apart.

Riley's original house arrest violation stemming from the charges amplified the growing spotlight on former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.

Police responded to a shooting this afternoon that left one man dead and a six-year-old in critical condition.

A St. Louis judge on Tuesday will hear arguments as to why the 1991 murder conviction of Chris Dunn should be vacated. Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison. Two witnesses who identified him as the killer have recanted and two St. Louis prosecutors, Kim Gardner and Gabe Gore, believe that he is innocent. After Gore announced earlier this spring he would file a motion to vacate Dunn’s conviction, producer Danny Wicentowski spoke with Dunn from the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, about his reaction.

The Zombies have announced details for their second annual Begin Here Festival, happening in their hometown, St Albans, England, about 20 miles outside of London. This year’s festival is happening November 8-10…

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Missouri ranked the highest average with 36.5% of drivers not wearing a seatbelt or helmet involved in fatal crashes .

A Phelps County, Missouri, man appeared in U.S. District Court on Thursday and admitted to a 2023 carjacking and stealing multiple pistols from a gun store in 2022.

Windows were busted out Wednesday night between 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.

According to a Facebook post, CARE STL said they knew the roof was damaged, but did not know how significant the damage was until it started raining again.

A man was sentenced to decades behind bars in the death of a St. Louis County cab driver who was fatally shot two years ago.

Saint Louis County is excited to announce the groundbreaking for a new $10 million hangar complex at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield. The groundbreaking will be held on June 7 at 10 a.m. at 18460 Olive Street Road in Chesterfield. The opening of the Spirit Sky Club marks a significant step in addressing […]

This week sees Australia’s finest Ramones-aping, smoke-breaking, lightning-struck band of unruly reprobates, the Chats, pull their 6-litre GT-R up in St. Louis for a Friday night rager at Off Broadway — and hopefully you already have your tickets, because they are otherwise long since sold out (though we’re betting you could get the band to let you in the back door if you offer ’em a carton of Missouri’s relatively reasonably priced smokes). Elsewhere, guitar whiz Gary Clark Jr. makes his now-annual pilgrimage to our fair town for a Thursday night affair at the Factory, BJ the Chicago Kid posts up for a two-night stay Tuesday and Wednesday at City Winery, and Kublai Khan teams up with Harm’s Way for a crushing Thursday night karate competition at Red Flag. All that plus Austin's premier purveyor of "glam senselessness and country sensibility" (that would be the delightfully named Pelvis Wrestley) in our picks for this week’s best shows!

The Missouri Senate did nothing but fight during two brief floor sessions Thursday, with Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin stepping in during each to cut off acrimonious exchanges, first with a recess and then with adjournment. As a result, the Senate considered no legislation on the penultimate day of this year’s session and seems unlikely to […]

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