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Last February, a report in Politico found that Crisis Text Line, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit support options for the suicidal, had been monetizing user data. More specifically, the nonprofit was collecting all sorts of data on “customer interactions” (ranging from the frequency certain words are used, to the type of distress users are […]

News of the agreement with Central States Funds came just hours before a planned strike that Yellow Corp. said would bankrupt the company.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.78% for the week ended July 20 — down from 6.96% the prior week.

An early-morning fire in the Dutchtown neighborhood leaves four families without homes.

Two men were injured in a shooting overnight in the Baden neighborhood of north St. Louis.

The entrance ramp from southbound Lindbergh to eastbound I-70 will shut down at 9 p.m. Monday for construction work.

One person was killed, and two others were taken to the hospital after a multi-vehicle crash overnight in north St. Louis.

Because of construction, the ramp from northbound Salt Lick to eastbound I-70 will be closed until the fall. MoDOT also will shift and narrow lanes on I-70 for about a half mile east to accommodate bridge maintenance work.

Child care providers who accept a subsidy from the state to serve low-income families will see a boost in payments next month, thanks to a $78.5 million funding increase approved by Missouri lawmakers earlier this year.  The funding hike, included in the state budget signed by the governor, went into effect July 1. It won’t […]

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Much of what we are witnessing in local and national politics goes beyond typical partisan policy differences and divides. There are real efforts to dismantle what America has purported to be about — A land where all of its citizens have the same rights under the Constitution. Some of the rhetoric and proposed policies in […]

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It's hard to criticize what you can't hear.

Transgender people are complaining about gender discrimination within some housing shelters in St. Louis and St. Louis County. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Andrea Henderson reports, transgender people and housing advocates say shelter staff aren’t complying with updated federal housing policies and are denying people shelter because of their gender identity.

Loverboy is currently the special guest on Foreigner’s Farewell Tour, and frontman Mike Reno feels like the pairing just makes sense. “I know their big song is 'Jukebox Hero,' but they really are jukebox…

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In their view, business should be forced to be transphobic and ignore climate change.

"I was 17. Both of my grandparents, just at once gone. It was grandma’s first time on a plane," Donne Diebold said. "All of our lives changed because of this."

The shady tax refund industry skims onerous junk fees from low-income returns and shares personal taxpayer data in the process.