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A man killed two women before killing himself Thursday morning in Manchester, police said.

GRANITE CITY - Granite City Police have resolved a report of a missing juvenile and charged a California, Mo., man with multiple aggravated criminal sexual abuse counts. On Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, the Granite City Police Department received a report of a missing juvenile. Also on Aug. 8, the Granite City Police Department received additional information and through an investigation, detectives were able to identify a suspect involved in the juvenile’s disappearance and their possible location. Detectives contacted the California, Mo., Police Department and the suspect was taken into custody. The juvenile was recovered and later returned to their family. Detectives from the Granite City Police Department then responded to the Moniteau County Sheriff’s Department, where the suspect was being held. An interview was conducted and a request was made to hold the suspect pending investigation and charges. The suspect has been identified as Naresh Bass-Ocasio, 22, of California,

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A St. Louis-based janitorial services company, one of the St. Louis region's largest privately held businesses, is growing its health care division.

Armstrong Teasdale LLP announced Thursday that the new head of its Edwardsville, Illinois, office is the first Black person in the role of office managing attorney for the firm.

Keeping St. Louis' outdoor professional sports fields in tiptop shape is a big job when the weather is nice, and a more challenging task during sweltering St. Louis summers. STLPR senior correspondent and morning newscaster Wayne Pratt gets to the root of how these two fields stay fresh, even when the temperatures are soaring.

This is a panoramic view of the Orangerie, part of the gardens of Versailles, looking southwest from the palace toward the Swiss Lake. It's certainly an impressive bit of craftsmanship, but I can't bring myself to love it. Even to my OCD-inflected mind, it seems just a little too overplanned and sterile. But I guess ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

A new book may just be the perfect gift for any Beatles fan who also loves to travel. Beatles Blackouts: Trips Around the World in Search of Beatles Monuments is written by Jack Marriott,…

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Attorneys for the Biden administration argued Thursday that a district judge in Louisiana overstepped his authority by barring the federal government from communicating with social media companies to urge them to moderate information deemed harmful or misleading. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments over whether […]

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EDWARDSVILLE - Civic Memorial softball player Bryleigh Ward emerged as a key part of the Eagles' girls' softball lineup this past spring, being described as a second leadoff hitter who can reach base and hits the ball hard, putting it in play at key moments. One highlight was early in the season when Ward smashed a game-tying two-run homer in the top of the fifth in CM's win at Edwardsville 6-4 on April 3, which is a signature win for the program over one of the best teams in both the Metro-East and St. Louis area. Ward is also an honors student at Civic Memorial. For her efforts both on and off the field, Ward has been named a CM Tom Lane State Farm Female Athlete of the Month. Ward said the Eagles' team came a long way in 2023, especially from 2022, and she thinks the whole team worked hard since November of 2022 for the success this past spring. "We got off to a really early start and I'm just really proud of the team," she said. Ward had a great feeling when she saw her game-tying

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Professor Andrew Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute is one of the best, most important researchers out there providing thorough, comprehensive, empirical evidence that every tech moral panic is not supported by the data. We’ve covered his work before, including the complete lack of evidence that social media makes kids unhappy, how there’s actually some […]

The Sk8 Laborious church-turned-skate park and nonprofit group on the north side of St. Louis burned down in the middle of the night in June.

Today on TAP: The gulf between urban, suburban, and rural counties in Tuesday’s vote was, well, total.

Panera is changing the Value Duet pairings. They are focusing on a range of options.

The man's wife retrieved a gun after he told her several times in an "alcohol-fueled rage" that he was going to kill her, said a press release from the sheriff.

Deal calls for bus drivers, MetroLink operators and some other workers to get additional 3% pay hikes in next two years, $7,000 signing bonus.

The Muny plans to add a backstage pavilion to its outdoor theater in Forest Park, and city preservation officials have agreed to the construction.

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze that has already claimed 36 lives, making it the deadliest in the U.S. in recent years. Fueled by a dry summer [...]

A man faces felony charges after he allegedly stole a car with a child inside from a St. Ann gas station and crashed it.

Get ready for music, racing and the butter cow.

From Vox today: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is tripling down on his state’s newly approved social studies curriculum guidelines that erroneously teach students that enslaved people “developed skills” that they could use for “personal benefit.” I've had enough of this. There are plenty of problems with Florida's Black history curriculum,¹ but the "skills" passage isn't ...continue reading "Some American slaves really did earn money from skills they developed"