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The kids are not named in the lawsuit, but have been identified publicly as Kadan and Brooklyn Rockett, magicians who appeared in 2016 on the NBC series “America’s Got Talent.”

Join us for the 6th season of this playable, artist-designed, nine-hole mini golf installation, designed to be inclusive, family friendly and accessible. All proceeds from Golf the Galleries support The

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Officials hope to expand the park to include long-closed Ninth Street, tying together the park's two halves.

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Steve Haberberger Jr. always knew he wanted to go into the family business. Now, he’s one of the fourth-generation members of the Haberberger family to lead it. Affton-based Haberberger Inc. was started in 1948 by Frank Haberberger, Steve Jr.’s great grandfather, as a refrigeration repair company. Now, the company is […]

The event will feature gourmet burgers from Justin McMillan of Balkan Treat Box and Jon Todd of Fat Fox, and proceeds will benefit Slow Food St. Louis.

A new opinion piece published by the New York Times conveys St. Louis as a city with a "struggling downtown" and suggests that various Missouri laws are not helping the cause.

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City Counselor Sheena Hamilton is keeping key records from the public. It’s a troubling pattern for the administration of Mayor Tishaura O. Jones.

An "open house" event will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in Belleville, followed by a Zoom session from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 (ECUSD7) board received questions and comments about racism in schools at their board meeting on June 26. Several parents addressed the board. They spoke of specific situations where students were harassed, and they asked the board what they were going to do to prevent racial harassment going forward. “Rather than deal with hollow words, we want to deal with substance,” Scott Ahart, a parent, told the board. Ahart outlined policy changes that parents wish to see, most of which focus on prevention. He asked the board to implement a zero-tolerance policy for racial discrimination or harassment, provide age-appropriate education on racial discrimination to all students, and require cultural sensitivity training for teachers, administrators and staff. He also asked them to provide more access to literature by Black authors, and to increase the Black writings and writers studied in language arts, history

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William Shatner's all-star prog rock album Ponder the Mystery is getting reissued for its 10th anniversary, with a new mix by famed producer Jürgen Engler. Originally released October 8, 2013, the album features guest…

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The shutdown, starting at 9 p.m., will occur Wednesday and Thursday and on July 5-7. The nearby Hawks Nest Drive bridge will close overnight Monday and Tuesday.

Singer Diana Ross recently announced that her 'Music Legacy' tour is set to kick off this summer and will make a stop in St. Louis. She'll be performing at The Fabulous Fox Theatre Friday, September 15. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m.

EDWARDSVILLE - FCB Banks officially marked 20 years of business in Edwardsville with a ribbon-cutting and celebration hosted by members of FCB Bank and the The Ed/Glen Chamber of Commerce. David Toby, senior vice president of FCB Banks Edwardsville, said the bank opened in Edwardsville in June of 2003 and has been proud to serve the community for two decades. “We are celebrating today 20 years of being in this community,” Toby said. “We are a family-owned bank 3 generations, and so the community we serve and all our communities are very important to us. “We get rooted in the communities … we’ve been involved in the community and we’re very excited to celebrate those 20 years and here for another 20 years at least.” He emphasized the important role the bank’s customers have had in its success since 2003. “The customers that we serve every day, that is what drives our business,” he said. “The relationships

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Let’s start off with this point, which some seem to ignore when I talk about this stuff: I think many of the “concerns” about disinformation are totally overblown. People act as if disinformation has a sort of bizarre mind-control over other people (never themselves) to the point that they act as if disinformation itself is […]

A fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, Reuters found.

Bishop Richard Stika is a St. Louis native who was ordained in 1985 by Archbishop John L. May at the Cathedral Basilica

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The organization that governs U.S. organ transplant policies voted unanimously on Monday to require that donors be tested for a parasitic disease called Chagas.

Last week, ProPublica reported on the death of Bob Naedele, a former police detective from Connecticut who died in 2018 after receiving an infected heart; his death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested for Chagas. The policy change comes after years of recommendations from experts for screening to prevent such deaths.

The new policy, passed by board members of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, will require the groups that recover organs in the U.S. to test the blood of donors born in countries where Chagas disease is prevalent, including Mexico and 20 nations in South and Central America. To be implemented, the policy will need to be approved by the federal Office of Management and Budget.

“My family and I are elated hearing about the policy change,” said Cheryl Naedele, Bob’s wife. “Ensuring no heart recipient will ever have to suffer the ravages of Chagas has been our passion since Bob’s passing.”

Test results will not have to be provided to patients and their medical team before transplant. That means that patients potentially could find out after their transplant that they had received an infected organ — and not have a chance to weigh the risks of a worse outcome.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network committee that drafted the proposal originally planned to require testing to be completed before a transplant. But “many commenters were concerned that the lack of availability of testing and time it takes to get test results could lead to” delays or wasted organs, spokesperson Anne Paschke said, so the committee removed the pre-transplant requirement.

Experts said that any testing requirement can still improve outcomes even if results arrive after a transplant because medical teams could begin treating an infection promptly, rather than discovering the disease after symptoms appear. Treatment for Chagas disease is available, but it’s not always successful in transplant recipients because their immune system needs to be suppressed so their body will not reject the new organ.

In Bob Naedele’s case, his diagnosis took weeks and came too late, after the parasite had invaded his nervous system and brain. He died seven months after what had initially appeared to be a successful transplant.