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Stephanie Baird wiped away tears as she remembered Becky "The Queen of Carpet" Rothman on Saturday afternoon.

Online shopping has contributed to the gradual decline of traditional shopping malls in the 21st century, and several spots in the St. Louis area reflect that harsh reality.

Here is the minimum wage for California compared to the federal minimum wage: The federal minimum wage lost value in practically every year since 1980, while the California minimum generally continued to rise with inflation. In 2016, as the federal minimum fell further and further behind inflation, California went in the other direction, raising it ...continue reading "Raw data: The minimum wage in California and the nation"

In our Twitter spat a couple of days ago Chris Geidner mentioned a new law that prevented trans kids from getting gender affirming care up through age 18. I corrected that to 17, thinking of the Tennessee law that was recently upheld in federal court. But no. It turns out Alabama has a law that ...continue reading "Alabama bans gender-affirming care up to age 19"

Five Years Ago This week in 2018, after years of fighting, Prenda boss Paul Hansmeier followed the path of John Steele and pleaded guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The DOJ was trying to force Facebook to break encryption on voice calls, the EU was moving forward with legislation […]

Congratulations Taylor Harris! She is co-host & producer KTVI Fox 2 News. Harris will be honored as a St. Louis young leader at the St. Louis American Foundation’s twelfth annual Salute to Young Leaders Networking Awards Reception, presented by Midwest…

The heat was so severe, it even sent more patients to the emergency room: Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the Central West End was full Friday, and reported a 10% bump in ER visits this week.

Gary Kornfeld has taught around 3,500 students how to drive since the late 1970s.

Xiaoxiao Zheng, 32, and 1-year-old boy died in a two-car crash at about 9:20 p.m. Friday near the town of Monett in Barry County, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

An armed suspect carjacked an Uber driver by holding him at gunpoint overnight in north St. Louis.

My blog is now an adult: 21 years old and legally able to drink and enter into binding contracts. Still too young to run for president, though. So what should my blog do to celebrate?

Is our economy doing better or worse? See recent changes in local employment, regional inflation and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.

Police were called at around 9:15 p.m. Friday to the 4000 block of Iowa in south city's Dutchtown neighborhood, where they found a man in an alley, shot multiple times.

No Maserati test drives or donations to Josh Hawley for Bill McClellan.

An infant and a woman were killed in a car and truck crash near Monett on Friday night.

Bob Barker, the longtime host of the gameshow “The Price is Right,” has died at the age of 99, his publicist announced Saturday.

A St. Louis man has been sentenced to life in prison along with an additional 15 years in connection to a murder that occurred in Spanish Lake in spring 2021.