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If you lose out on winning a billion dollars in Tuesday night's Mega Millions lottery, Krispy Kreme has a consolation prize.

As Show-Me State stoners spend $4 million a day on weed, one lucky toker won't have to spend a dime on weed come September. Good Day Farm, a cannabis brand with dispensaries in the St. Louis area, is throwing a sweepstakes to award one lucky person 365 free, half-gram pre-rolls. The rules are simple.

A person was shot in Ferguson overnight.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson says the state will move forward with the execution of a man who abducted and killed a 6-year-old girl in Valley Park.

These towns offer top-notch universities, culture, nature, sports, cuisine, and more.

Bob O'Loughlin, whose company owns Union Station, says he's been waiting about a year for the city comptroller's office to provide basic information needed to redeem incentives worth around $18 million.

The annual festival also offers a chance to learn about the Serbian Orthodox religious tradition and community.

A southwest Missouri river already contaminated with E. coli could soon receive up to 350,000 gallons of wastewater daily from a meatpacking facility.  And while the facility is expected to treat the wastewater for contamination before releasing it, critics of the proposal are worried about the operators’ history of violations at the site.  “It would […]

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As we mark the anniversary of the historic passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, we celebrate that Medicare provides health coverage, including routine preventive care, hospitalization and prescription medicines, to over 65 million seniors and people with disabilities. I’m one of those seniors, and I work with many more of them in the fight […]

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The bacteria behind one of history’s deadliest diseases is thriving again due to extreme weather.

Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.

New changes to a bedrock environmental law may help cut red tape for clean energy projects.

A growing number of people who have no choice but to work in the heat are demanding greater protection.

Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott is revealing some of the records that helped shape him into the rock star he is today. In an interview with Classic Rock, the singer reveals “the 10 records that changed my life,”…

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Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.

The larger problem is feeble and captured regulation, resulting in multiple intra–executive branch fights.

Continuing interest rate hikes as the Black unemployment rate starts to tick up reveal a misunderstanding of monetary policy history.

Photographs by Alyssa Vanderweg. As part of the Missouri Historical Society’s Collections Access project, the collections management department recently cataloged, photographed, and rehoused a collection of 42 patent models from the 19th century. Until 1880, the US Patent Office required inventors to submit working models of their inventions with their patent applications. The Patent Office …

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