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A St. Louis County police officer is now charged with firing at least a dozen shots in the air.

A police officer and son of a former St. Louis County prosecutor told attendees they were "going to die" as he fired shots, according to court documents.

Queen has been touring with Adam Lambert since 2011, but they are still working on perfecting their performance, as proven by a recent clip guitarist Brian May shared on Instagram. The video was shot at…

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Now we're talking. Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky says free will is a myth: After more than 40 years studying humans and other primates, Sapolsky has reached the conclusion that virtually all human behavior is as far beyond our conscious control as the convulsions of a seizure, the division of cells or the beating of ...continue reading "Free will is mankind’s biggest myth"

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House rejected Ohio’s Jim Jordan as a candidate for speaker on Tuesday, though he vowed to secure the votes needed in the days ahead. Jordan’s decision to try to rally roughly 20 holdouts to his side leaves the House frozen, unable to take up legislation to fund the government ahead of […]

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Two budding postseason stars have intriguing connections with the St. Louis Cardinals.

From Mid Rivers News Magazine:  O’Fallon had proposed using bonds to help a growing business move to the city from its current location in St. Louis County. That now will happen. At its Sept. 28 meeting, the City Council voted 9-0 authorizing the issuance of $5 million in industrial revenue bonds. Council member Deana Smith […]

Police say 10 vehicles were found with damage to their windows.

The protesters urged the Biden administration to prevent ‘a chain of reactions that would be catastrophic for a lot of people.’

Even if the city wanted to scrap its 1 percent earnings tax and make the property tax dominant—as it is nationwide—conservative state laws block it

GRAFTON - This weekend, witches and warlocks are invited to Grafton for a night of contests, vendors, food specials and boozy potions. The sixth annual “Witches on the Water” event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. From 5 p.m. to the witching hour, people can meet at Mason Hollow Park in Grafton to check out vendors and transportation will be provided throughout the night to Grafton’s bars, restaurants and shops for Halloween-themed specials. “Basically, witches and warlocks putting on their best costumes and coming down to Grafton and having a great time,” explained Jessica Hayes, one of the four volunteer organizers. “It is all throughout the town. All of the businesses participate with us. All of them have contests or food specials, drink specials, entertainment of some sort, their own contests, drawings, prizes. So really, it’s about us all coming together as a community and putting on a great event for everyone to enjoy.”

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From Construction Dive:  U.S. contractors wasted between $30 billion and $40 billion in 2022 due to labor inefficiencies, and it appears to be getting worse, according to a new survey from FMI Corp. Nearly half of respondents (45%) said they saw declining labor productivity on their job-sites in the last 12 to 18 months, compared to […]

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From New Atlas:  The extraordinary Hadrian X bricklaying robot rocks up to a building site looking like a regular truck, then extends a 32-m (105-ft) boom arm and starts precisely laying up to 300 large masonry blocks an hour. It’s pretty remarkable to watch. We’ve had our eye on this Australian bot since it was […]

Plenty of legislators and law enforcement officials seem to believe there’s only one acceptable solution to the CSAM (child sexual abuse material) problem: breaking encryption. They may state some support for encryption, but when it comes to this particular problem, many of these officials seem to believe everyone’s security should be compromised just so a […]