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ST. LOUIS -- Missouri Governor Mike Parson cuts funds to the Riverview Gardens School District. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the governor says the school district should pursue other funding options to upgrade its aging buildings. The Missouri legislature approved $13 million to improve 13 buildings. Governor Parson said the local project had minimal [...]

Construction will soon get underway on a new $61.97 million health sciences building as part of St. Louis Community College’s nearly $500 million facilities update at its four campuses.

During peak pandemic, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), giving lower income Americans a $50 ($75 for those in tribal lands) discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave money to ISPs, which then doled out discounts to users if they qualified. But (and I’m sure this will […]

The federal Inflation Reduction Act made uncapped tax credits available for capturing emissions, including CO2, to reduce the worst impacts of climate change.

Kidnappers assaulted Helena Luer on the evening of July 10, 1933, and dragged her husband, August, to a getaway car.

ST. LOUIS -- Two men put the final touches today on a new art project in Downtown St. Louis. Artist William Lachance and Painter Robert Fishbone will complete a new mural visible from the last Missouri exit on I-64. It's 25 feet by 100 feet with more than 80 colors. It's part of a downtown [...]

“Regulation could severely handicap us,” wrote Stephen Thaler, who runs Imagination Engines in St. Charles.

David and Diane Nedvidek have had it with St. Louis. They moved here from Birmingham, Alabama, with high hopes last November — signing a two-year lease on a gorgeous old house in Lafayette Square and thinking they could find a permanent place after they were more settled. 

Owens has one other claim to fame. In April, he married gymnastics legend Simone Biles.

The headquarters of the Herzog Foundation sits on the edge of Smithville, in an 18,000-square-foot stone and glass building on a corner lot across the street from a cornfield on a gravel-lined highway. Few Missouians have likely heard of the Stanley M. Herzog Charitable Foundation, or the organization’s namesake. But the unassuming locale masks what […]

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HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. -- Rockford Beach Park in Jefferson County reopens today. It was closed over the weekend. The sheriff's office says overcrowding at the popular park along the Big River near House Springs has made it nearly impossible for them to respond to any emergencies in the park. A man drowned there one week [...]

Hydropower loss added 121 million metric tons of carbon emissions over 20 years — about the same as putting 1.3 million more cars on the road.

The city’s website states, “We are asking all residents to move tree limbs and debris to the curb.”

Ashcroft acted after Republican lawmakers failed to pass a similar measure during the state’s legislative session that ended on May 12.

The app tells donors where their blood donation ends up.

Nils Lofgren is getting ready to release his new solo album, Mountains, on July 21, but in the meantime he’s still busy on tour with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. And it sure sounds like…

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Loved ones said Sheriff's Deputy Steven Tucker cared deeply about his family and community.

The pandemic caused a lot of crime. But police reform can play a part in reducing it as well.

By creating a full-employment economy, Biden enabled millions of low-wage workers to raise their pay.