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Also on ballot is Normandy-Glen Echo Park merger, an aldermanic race in Bel-Nor and a tax hike for public safety, infrastructure in St. Louis Hills area.

The U.S. meat industry has struggled with declining profits and reduced demand from consumers.

One in four Missouri nursing homes hasn’t had a standard inspection in two or more years, according to recently-updated federal data. Federal law requires states conduct an unannounced comprehensive inspection for each long-term care facility at least every 15 months to assess compliance with federal health and safety rules. During those visits, inspectors generally spend several days at each facility reporting on factors including medication management, resident rights and quality of life. State…

It was another wild weekend of severe weather across the bi-state, with a few tornado touchdowns doing significant damage to rural communities. One community hit hard was Baring, Missouri, in Knox County.

Police on Monday identified a man killed last week in the city's Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.

The Fuller Dome on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville represents the legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. Designed as a miniature globe, the structure is experiencing its own kind of climate crisis, as its heating and air conditioning system are failing. Benjamin Lowder, director of the Fuller Dome Center for Spirituality and Sustainability, discusses the effort to raise funds to preserve the dome and the impact of Fuller's legacy on the St. Louis region.

Emerson named a longtime employee as its new chief people officer, only the second executive to hold that title.

St. Louis Hills could be the second neighborhood in the past two years to start charging a special levy to pay for things typically run out of City Hall.

In his recent piece for the Atlantic, Washington University Professor Ian Bogost argues that “all soda is lemon-lime soda.” He shares why he came to that conclusion and the little-known-facts that he learned about 7UP, including its St. Louis origins and one of its original ingredients (a prescription drug by today’s standards).

Van Halen’s post David Lee Roth years could have looked a lot different, according to Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes. In an interview with The Classic Rock Podcast, Hughes revealed that Eddie Van Halen told him he had considered…

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The victim's identity was not released.

"He should have never been charged," said the man's lawyer. "It was clearly a case of self-defense." The man spent nearly a year in jail before charges were dropped.

The editor of the largest newspaper in southeast Missouri is temporarily off the  job after being arrested for driving while under the influence this past weekend. This morning, the Southeast Missourian reported that its own editor, Rick Fahr, was arrested a little after 2 a.m. Saturday in Cape Girardeau.

A longtime St. Louis-area journalist has been hired to lead the St. Charles County Communications Department.

Cops really hate policing protests that target police. But that has been the reality since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin ripped the bandage off an unhealed wound by placing his knee on the neck of unarmed black man George Floyd, choking the life out of him during an act that played out like an anthropomorphized […]