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While UM announced its decision on scholarships, Wash U and SLU said they would review their admissions policies.

We got nice inflation news today. The headline PCE inflation rate dropped to 1.5% while the core inflation rate finally showed some modest downward movement to 3.9%. This is the annualized monthly rate. On a year-over-year basis, headline inflation fell to 3.8% while core inflation was stuck at 4.6%. In related news, consumer spending was ...continue reading "Inflation ticks down yet again in May"

Deangelo Young, 30, is accused of driving drunk and speeding Wednesday night along West Florissant Avenue when he hit a Chevrolet Impala that burst into flames.

Time is running out to get your tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway. There are only about 2,000 tickets left out of the original 16,000.

ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis area is experiencing its first round of triple-digit heat, and it's already causing issues on the roads. A picture taken by the Kansas Department of Transportation last week shows a section of I-70, near Ellsworth County, Kansas, buckled from the heat. This could very well happen here in St. [...]

ST. LOUIS -- The heat continues today, and that's a good reason to stay inside. Around 50 cooling centers are now open across our area. Several of them are at rec centers and libraries. 23 people in Missouri died last year due to heat related illnesses. Health officials and the red cross offered advice on [...]

ST. LOUIS -- An incident unfolded in St. Louis City last night as shots were fired by a police officer following a trespassing call that escalated into a foot chase. The suspect allegedly pointed a gun at an officer, prompting the use of force. Two individuals, an adult and a juvenile, were taken into custody, [...]

“We could stall and delay for another six years, deferring justice, leaving a victim’s family in limbo, and solving nothing,” Parson said in a statement.

ST. CHARLES -- After more than 30 years in public office, St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann says this will be his last term. According to our partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ehlmann will not seek re-election in 2026. He's currently in his fifth term as St. Charles County Executive and will be 77-years-old [...]

We just got done noting how the AT&T—>Time Warner—>Warner Bros Discovery mergers just keep on demonstrating the absolutely pointlessness of most media mergers. The combined companies spent hundreds of billions of dollars on elaborate, costly acquisitions that never got close to delivering the kind of “synergies” dealmakers promised. Instead, the string of mergers resulted in […]

City leaders are looking for ways to protect young people from rising gun violence. The Giffords Center for Violence Intervention is suggesting several options like improving health and education resources along with increasing employment opportunities.

Dedicated clientele included the wealthy and powerful and athletes and dandies of all sort.

ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri State Highway Patrol and Illinois police were looking for the driver of a 2006 Dodge Charger in connection to an Amber Alert Friday morning. They found the driver at around 7:30 a.m. on Beltline Road under I-55/70 in Collinsville, Illinois. He has been taken into police custody. A 9-year-old girl [...]

ST. LOUIS -- A heat advisory continues for Friday, but so does the chance for storms over at least part of our region. So, our set-up is the same as Thursday. South and west, temperatures will again climb to near 100 with heat index values could be 105 to 110. Storms are expected late in the [...]

It's a beautiful afternoon in University City as Jeff and David Lazaroff — better known to St. Louisans as the eclectic jazz-and-soul-infused Americana band Brothers Lazaroff — invite me into their music studio and practice room, located inside the home David shares with his wife and two kids. When David brings me a cup of coffee, it's in a Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum mug, complete with a guitar-shaped handle. It's an unsurprising gesture from a duo that lives and breathes music as players, writers, genre mixologists, sound explorers and ardent fans.

Here in St. Louis, firefighters will receive double the 250 daily fire and EMS calls they typically receive, all because of fireworks on the Fourth of July.

The legendary watering hole, formerly Cousin Hugo's, opened in 1938.

About 50 million people nationwide are expected to travel this Independence Day weekend, and 90% will be traveling by car, according to AAA.