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These local restaurants are offering tasty specials throughout the Lenten season.

Sometimes, an advertisement is worth a thousand op-eds. Last week, one of us co-authored an op-ed criticizing an amicus brief filed by the American Economic Liberties Project and several prominent law professors in the pending Supreme Court case NetChoice v. Paxton. AELP’s brief defends the constitutionality of a Texas law prohibiting social media companies from […]

Creve Coeur-based metal recycling company Alter Trading Corp., one of the St. Louis region's largest privately held companies, has acquired a Mississippi business's operations.

When I first learned that a traveling magic show that caters specifically to consumers of marijuana was coming to town, my immediate reaction was one of outrage. Smokus Pocus, as the act is so dubbed, features the talents of one Ben Zabin, a globe-trotting entertainer in his mid-twenties who grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. Zabin got into boy wizardry when he was gifted a magic set for Hanukkah at the tender age of 4, and proved so adept at his craft that he was performing publicly by age 10 and being regularly paid for it by the time he reached high school, as detailed in a 2016 profile by the Greenwich Free-Press.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. That's a quote from Arthur Ashe, the only black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open.

A woman claims she was beaten and  held captive by three people inside a St. Louis church.

The happiest place on earth became even happier for a man from St. Louis this weekend.

The FOX School District in Arnold is once again considering a 4-day school week. District officials brought up the idea last year as a way to cut costs, but discussions were postponed.

Elliott See and Charles Bassett's jet approached too high and began a tight swing around the Lambert, eventually crashing into the McDonnell complex. Both astronauts died in the crash.

If you drive around downtown or plan on going to a St. . Louis Blues game anytime soon, be advised that there's a major road closure starting Monday.

St. Louis Police are searching for a suspect Monday morning after a bizarre incident over the weekend in The Grove. Two people were critically hurt after they tried to get into the wrong car.

A fire overnight damaged a vacant house in Florissant.

Another pedestrian has been struck and killed in north St. Louis.

The St. Louis City Reparations Commission will hear from Mayor Tishaura Jones at their meeting Monday night.

Writing a book has always been a goal for Kristen Elizabeth Harris, a.k.a. K Money the Poet. And now she's done just that. The St. Louis native recently released her first book Y’all Not Ready for that Conversation — a collection of poems ranging from awareness poems, battle poems to love poems and custom pieces. 

Richard and Sheila Johnson are living in their third motel since frozen pipes broke at the Heritage House Apartments nearly six weeks ago, forcing the building’s condemnation and evacuation of nearly 200 tenants. The Johnsons have been instructed that their free hotel stay ends and they must find new housing by Thursday, February 29. But so far, because of a tight housing market and little money of their own, it’s been no dice for the married couple, who haven’t worked in years because of their disabilities.

Royce Hotchkiss is an urbanist with a passion for St. Louis and a mission: To walk across the city and prove naysayers wrong about how “dangerous” it is.  On February 20 Hotchkiss set out from his Metro East home with a tube of chapstick, his water bottle and a route.

Washington University in St. Louis — criticized a decade ago for rock-bottom low-income enrollment — says it has carved out spaces for economically disadvantaged students as part of a new plan to increase need-based aid. Late last year, the university announced that 21% of its freshmen were Pell eligible, meaning they showed financial need after […]

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Sadly, the question is not how many more innocents need to become victims of senseless mass gun violence. The real question is: When will enough of us relentlessly demand that legislators pass sensible gun laws? Laws that will not only address the growing incidents of mass shootings, but the growing epidemic of gun violence. Clearly, […]

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