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“Go ahead, put it on the ballot, and I’m sure it’ll pass,” said Maureen Flint, a 79-year-old resident of unincorporated south St. Louis County.

If you’re "feline" frisky this weekend, get your tail over to the St. Louis Area Cat Show. Running from Friday, July 28, through Sunday, July 30, at the Purina Farms Event Center (300 Checkerboard Loop; Gray Summit; 314-982-3232) this kitty party will have more than 100 pedigreed and household cats on display. Representing more than 60 breeds, these four-legged furballs will be competing to see who is the prettiest and who is the most talented.

Nowadays all good people know that Jason Aldean is a racist dipshit who should be kicked in the balls frequently and thoroughly, but one St. Louis-based musician was way ahead of the curve in that realization. In light of the considerable controversy surrounding the recent release of Aldean's “Try That In a Small Town," a middling piece of pop-country claptrap that's long on deafening dogwhistles and short on competent songcraft, our hometown hero recently took to social media to share a personal anecdote, under this heading: "About 14 years ago, I kicked Jason Aldean in the ballsack. For real."

R.E.M. has put together a best-of playlist to celebrate the renewed interest in their music thanks to the recently premiered second season of The Bear. The playlist, which was made…

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Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting Inspiration and Expression, The Art of MaryJo Clark.   The exhibit includes collage,

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When the next Judas Priest album finally arrives, the metal legends will be following their highest-charting U.S. release. Rob Halford and company's last record, Firepower, debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in…

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ALTON - Alton Police Chief Jarrett Ford reported that at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, a passerby noticed a male subject jump over the guard rail and out of eyesight as they entered Alton over the Clark Bridge. The passerby contacted the Alton Police Department. Ford said Alton Police officers responded immediately and the investigation revealed the area where the pedestrian left the roadway was a short jump down to land. "The pedestrian was attempting to access the area below the bridge," Ford said. "No one was injured during this incident."

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The tower has been closed to visitors for several years, though Patty Taillon-Miller, president of the Water Tower Park and Preservation Society, is hopeful that another round of refurbishments will happen soon.

Bijoux Handcrafted Chocolates, which last year expanded to a second location, said Friday it will shutter its original store as it plots wholesale expansion and future locations.

The crash was reported at 1:53 a.m. Monday at West Florissant Avenue and Riverview Boulevard. Police have not released the name of the man who died.

Last February, a report in Politico found that Crisis Text Line, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit support options for the suicidal, had been monetizing user data. More specifically, the nonprofit was collecting all sorts of data on “customer interactions” (ranging from the frequency certain words are used, to the type of distress users are […]

News of the agreement with Central States Funds came just hours before a planned strike that Yellow Corp. said would bankrupt the company.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.78% for the week ended July 20 — down from 6.96% the prior week.

An early-morning fire in the Dutchtown neighborhood leaves four families without homes.

Two men were injured in a shooting overnight in the Baden neighborhood of north St. Louis.