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“Sometimes you get a branch in there that’s crowding out other branches and keeping them from being as fruitful as they possibly can," the chief executive explained.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey terminated his emergency rule on gender-affirming care Tuesday — less than a week after the state legislature sent a ban on minors starting treatment to the governor’s desk. The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit in late April seeking to block Bailey’s emergency rule, alleging the attorney general didn’t have the authority to use the state’s consumer protection law to block access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery. A…

She had planned to step down June 1, but decided to resign yesterday. Governor Mike Parson says he’ll announce a replacement this week.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed his general counsel Evan Rodriguez as an acting interim St. Louis circuit attorney, and has tapped the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to assist him during the next few days as the governor finishes interviewing candidates to serve as his permanent appointee. The complicated structure developed late Tuesday, just hours after Kim Gardner abruptly announced her immediate resignation as the city's top prosecutor. Rodriguez, 28, was sworn in Tuesday night…

The Missouri Press Advertising and Marketing Executives (MPAME) organization bestowed its top award to St. Louis American Senior Account Executive Pamela Simmons last month in Springfield, Missouri. Simmons received the Dee Hamilton Memorial Sales Pro Award for her outstanding work…

A few days before the unofficial marijuana holiday of April 20, as retailers prepared for the biggest sales day since legalization, Austin Monroe says he was fired by Shangri La South dispensary in Columbia. Monroe is one of 16 employees of the cannabis dispensary who signed an organizing petition seeking union representation by Local 655 […]

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If you’re queer and would like to meet the same, drop in to Queertown Underground tonight at the Royale (3132 S. Kingshighway, 314-772-3600). Tonight's event will feature a menu by Caitlin Neal, featuring braised pork belly,  miso cornbread, and smoked tomato and chipotle soup. Out in STL contributor Gabe Montesanti will be performing, along with musician Ahna.

Something new Wednesday at the Kaplan-Feldman Holocaust Museum in Creve Coeur.

More drainage help is on the way to Cahokia Heights, Illinois.

Even a decade ago, on the occasion of my 30th birthday, I was already arguably an aggrieved cyclist. For a long time now, my husband and I have been a one-car family, and with two jobs where we both have to be in person, that means I mostly bike or take the bus.

Editor's note: Evie Hemphill, program director for St. Louis BWorks, challenged St. Louis leaders to go car-free for one day. Only nine leaders actually went through with it.

How a blaze on steamboat sparked an inferno that changed the face of downtown St. Louis.

The Kaufman Fund will be giving out $100,000 to veteran charities Wednesday and Thursday. They're hosting a mental health networking conference to address veterans suffering from PTSD and mental illness.

St. Louis metro officials are meeting Wednesday for a regional crime summit. The East-West Gateway Council of Governments is hosting the event.

Kim Gardner is officially out as St. Louis circuit attorney. Gardner resigning more than two weeks earlier than she originally planned.

The Illinois AG would be empowered to investigate claims that a pregnancy center engaged in fraud, deception or false pretense.

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday grilled the secretary of education about student debt cancellation and protections for transgender student athletes during a lengthy hearing on the president’s proposed budget request for the Department of Education. While the subject of the five-hour House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing was the fiscal 2024 budget […]

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Pasta Plus, an Italian restaurant known for its assortment of pastas, pizzas and subs, opened its doors in 1992.

As FEMA struggles to keep up with climate disasters, extremist groups see an opportunity.