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Lynyrd Skynyrd will be heading to Nashville this summer for CMA Fest, which is happening June 6-9. The Southern rockers are booked to play Nissan Stadium on June 6, joining a…

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A state spending plan for fiscal 2025 delivered Thursday in the Missouri House cuts $2 billion from the proposal Gov. Mike Parson made in January, largely through adjustments for the depletion of pandemic-era federal funding and the decline in Medicaid enrollment.  The proposal from House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith achieves those cuts despite several […]

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Mary Bartlett Bunge, a former Washington U. faculty member and a pioneer in researching cell transplants to aid spinal injury patients, has died. She was 92.

Storms are passing through the area Thursday afternoon after several tornado watches and warnings have been issued.

Junior Robinson, detained in the St. Louis jail in 2022, says guards pepper sprayed and beat him after he tried to escape a potentially dangerous situation, according to a lawsuit.

Measure easily passed the House last week. But prospects appear dim for the proposal in the Senate.

The largest park in the state of Illinois is a must-visit area for hiking, bird watching, camping, and much more.

The National Weather Service - St. Louis has issued a tornado warning for the St. Louis region for the next hour.

The St. Louis pediatrician who last week was accused by federal prosecutors of swapping prescription pills for sex has now been indicted by a grand jury and is facing a slew of additional charges.  Craig Spiegel, 67, now faces 17 counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances and six counts of making false statements related to health care matters. As the RFT previously reported, federal authorities claim that since 2014 Spiegel has been writing bogus prescriptions to women in exchange for sexual favors and nude photographs.

Matt Darling writes today that although the unemployment rate is low, the length of unemployment spells has gone up. This is probably true over the very long term, but it doesn't really seem to be true over the past couple of decades: I didn't put in trend lines since it would have made the chart ...continue reading "Long-term unemployment has been pretty steady recently"