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Officers who handle drug dogs like to claim they’re so highly skilled at animal handling they can recognize otherwise imperceptible moves by their animals as the dog “alerting,” giving them (and, more literally) their animals free rein to perform warrantless searches of vehicles. But when these arguments fail, and it’s apparent a K-9 cop just […]

Legislation to fund a program that would allow St. Louis County senior citizens a tax break on their homes was defeated in a meeting Tuesday night.

Starting 9 a.m. Wednesday, the James S. McDonnell Boulevard Bridge will be closed.

Opinion: Maplewood Strategic Plan After serving on City Council for five years under two different Mayors and three different City Managers, I would like to offer my perspective on why I will be writing in Barry Greenberg on April 2. When I joined council in 2018, it was a time of transition. Marty Corcoran had […]

The United States Supreme Court ruling allowing enforcement of a Texas “arrest and deport” immigration law may have a ripple effect in Missouri.

The search for Riley Strain is now ten days and counting.

Tuesday’s regular school board meeting for the Hazelwood Board of Education did not include any agenda items related to an off-campus fight on March 8.

A divided Supreme Court has lifted a stay on a Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, Mo. - One person is dead after a two-alarm fire Monday evening. The fire broke out around 5:15 p.m. in the 8700 block of Hillsboro Road. According to officials, 40 firefighters responded to the incident within 10 different fire districts. An adult female managed to escape the fire and was transported to [...]

Police said Jose Barrera stabbed his neighbor on the business' parking lot and then stabbed the man's brother when he tried to intervene.

"This is the area with the highest remaining levels of contamination in north St. Louis County sites," Phil Moser said.

With Cardinals Opening Day just around the corner, preparations have been in full force, especially on the field when the weather permits.

What causes cavities? Lots of things, it turns out, but mainly sugar, just like you learned in grade school. However, sugar doesn't directly produce cavities. As with all things in biochemistry, the actual mechanism of cavity production is pretty complex. But let's simplify. The main culprit in the conversion of sugar into cavities is a ...continue reading "Did the FDA kill a promising new way of preventing cavities?"