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ALTON - Principal Tim Harmon views the 2023 Marquette Catholic graduating class as a group of 120 students who have been through a lot over the past four years with the COVID-19 Pandemic, but have moved beyond it and are exceptional people with bright futures ahead. “Every few years, there is a class of students that just resonates with you as a teacher or administrator," he said. "The Marquette Catholic High School Class of 2023 was one of those classes. They have been exceptional in every way, and I am going to miss them dearly. It is bittersweet at the end of each school year as a teacher and administrator. It’s such a great feeling to know that you are sending students out into the world, ready for the next big challenge in life, but it also is difficult to know that you’re not going to get to spend the same amount of time with them anymore and that you’re not there to help them when they need it. "You hope the best for them but also have to know that yo

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Rod Stewart's daughter Ruby has made him a grandfather again. Ruby, Rod's daughter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly Emberg, announced on Mother's Day that she and her fiancé, Jake Kalic, had welcomed a baby boy, Otis Stewart Kalic, on…

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Infighting and contention derailed many points of the GOP-dominated agenda in the just-completed 2023 session in Jefferson City.

Des Peres is on track to ask residents if they want to ban recreational marijuana businesses. But construction is already underway on a shop in the heart of the city.

As the U.S. has tried to untether itself from Chinese tech, one major policy goal by both parties has been to purge U.S. telecom networks of Chinese telecom gear. The worry (sometimes substantiated, sometimes not) is that Chinese intelligence has embedded all manner of nefarious backdoors in sensitive telecommunications gear (you’re to ignore that the […]

Some college athletes can get a break on tuition, courtesy of Stan Musial.

Washington University is awarding five honorary degrees Monday during its commencement ceremony.

St. Louis Children's Hospital has a new mobile unit hitting the road Monday. It's the nation's first mobile pediatric diabetes unit.

St. Louis Community College is opening a new child development laboratory at their Forest Park campus. It'll be a teaching center for child and family development students.

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Heavy rain pounded parts of south St. Louis City and County Sunday, caused flash floods on roads and in homes.

It was another weekend of craziness in downtown St. Louis with fights and gunshots during the overnight hours. The latest episodes involved two incidents early Sunday morning. Police shared that the suspects in both cases are still at large.

It offers a range of services like open play (either on a drop-in or membership package basis); care services for children with special needs; a wide range of classes, camps, and field trips; and even birthday parties.

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The company, which is led by Wash. U. grad Luke Saunders, is hoping to have its healthy food vending machines available in 50 locations in the St. Louis region by the end of the year.

After two years of drama and gridlock, the Missouri Senate showed up in January determined to put the conflict between the conservative caucus and GOP leadership in the past.  Submerged but ever-lurking, factionalism finally torpedoed the apparent comity in the session’s final week, and the Senate sank into the depths of filibusters and procedural hijinks. […]

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The message throughout a memorial service for Demetrious Johnson on Jan. 2, 2023, was that the community must carry on his mission of service through his foundation.