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St. Louis and the nation celebrate this Independence Day, and the big events leading up to Tuesday night's fireworks.

St. Louis Police are looking for two teenagers who escaped from a juvenile detention facility early Monday.

A beloved St. Louis movie theater and an equally treasured St. Louis nonprofit recently realized they were made for each other — and then tied the knot. For the past 22 years, Cinema St. Louis, the non-profit behind the St. Louis International Film Festival, had lived nomadically.

"This is so annoying. I'm living and working out of my car," said Darius Rucker.

After being very impressed with Vivid's Biscotti Gelato and their Gummiez strain, I was excited to try one of Vivid's recent releases: Jokerz Candy. A vibrant image of the strain, posted on Vivid's social media, immediately caught my attention.

If you show your love for America with patriotic flair wear at Krsipy Kreme Tuesday, you get a free doughnut.

One person was hurt overnight in a crash in the Tower Grove South neighborhood

A woman and two of her children were shot dead Monday evening in St. Ann, and a fourth shooting victim hospitalized.

Many say they plan to run for local or statewide office. They never do, but they keep spending.

A proposal to help working Missourians with disabilities access affordable health care is among the bills now awaiting action by Gov. Mike Parson. The legislature this year approved a pair of bills that include tweaks to eligibility for the Ticket to Work Health Assurance Program, which provides health insurance through Medicaid to employed adults with […]

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Jason Stuhlmann's small label will host Do What? Weekend, a two-day birthday party, July 7 & 8.

As we celebrate the nation’s 247th birthday amid what appears to be intransigent partisan political divides on many fronts, it seems a good time to ponder what patriotism and nationalism means in America today. Are you feeling patriotic or nationalistic as we pause to celebrate this Fourth of July? Which? And if neither, why not? […]

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Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back.

Arrey Obenson of the International Institute had a Good Samaritan who helped him on his journey. Others are not so lucky.

The 1904 World’s Fair included many elements celebrating America’s patriotic spirit. One of the most popular of these was the Liberty Bell, an icon associated with Independence Day that traveled from Philadelphia to St. Louis for the exposition. A Symbol of Unity Starting several decades after the Civil War, Philadelphia permitted the bell to be …

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