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St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, former state legislator Maria Chappelle-Nadal both challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Cori Bush in Aug. 6 Democratic primary

ST. LOUIS -- Former KPLR Sports Director Rich Gould is telling a different type of story. He has been writing a children's book called, "There's a Snake Down There." It is the story of a brave little girl who saves her family while her grandma sleeps through it all. Rich says the story is based [...]

The Federal Trade Commission slammed Kroger Co., Walmart and other large grocery companies in a new report for making the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain issues worse for consumers than they needed to be. The FTC’s report, titled “Feeding America in a Time of Crisis: FTC Staff Report on The United States Grocery Supply Chain and the Covid-19 Pandemic,” found that large grocery companies increased prices more than they typically have relative to their costs and received…

A Kansas man is suing a Tennessee congressman over social media posts accusing him of being a shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade and an “illegal alien.”

This is a rhinoceros hornbill at the LA Zoo. I assume the name comes from its big yellow horn, which looks sort of rhinoceros-like. I wonder what its evolutionary purpose is?

The earnings tax, the city’s largest single source of revenue, accounting for 37% of the general fund, has long been a target of Republican state lawmakers.

The decision marked a rare loss for a developer seeking incentives at the board, especially one with plans already endorsed by the city’s economic development arm.

PracticeLink, a Richmond Heights-based provider of physician recruitment resources and services, has added a strategy chief to its executive leadership.

Who does Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey really represent? That's one of the questions raised by an attorney for the Hazelwood School District in a scathing fact-check correcting the AG’s recent bid for attention. Bailey announced last week that he is opening up an investigation into the St. Louis County school district's diversity, equity and inclusion practices following a viral video that captured the brutal beating of 16-year-old Kaylee Gain by another student. 

Missouri State has hired Cuonzo Martin, bringing back the only coach to lead its basketball program to a Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title more than a decade after he left Springfield for stints in power conferences.

Serra's "Twain," featuring slightly curved pieces of steel arranged to form a skewed triangle in the Gateway Mall in downtown St. Louis, has been the subject of controversy for decades.

The Missouri Attorney General and school district continued a public back-and-forth Wednesday.

They got high marks for schools and were labeled "good for families."

These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few reasonable alternatives, so they can keep you stuck in their silos. They just move more and more rapidly along the enshittification curve, extracting […]

This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content, including images, audio, and video — became widely available. That’s raising fears that millions of voters could be deceived by a barrage of political deepfakes. But, while Congress has done little to address […]

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Jon Bon Jovi knows plenty about rock 'n' roll, but it turns out he knows a lot about business, too -- and he's going to share his knowledge during this…

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one: An anti-abortion activist and a transphobe walk into an election — and immediately fit right in with the slate of other Republican candidates vying to be Missouri’s next Secretary of State.  OK fine, we’ll admit it’s not the funniest of jokes, but it is an accurate summation of the state of things now that the Republican field is set for this state office. Tuesday’s 5 p.m. candidate filing deadline saw even more conservative wingnuts jumping into an already crowded race, as embattled House Speaker Dean Plocher, anti-abortion crusader Mary Elizabeth Coleman, a St. Charles judge whose active YouTube page has tens of followers, and a (kind of?)