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Detectives suspected Dinty Colbeck was trying to muscle back into business after a prison stint, but killing remains unsolved.

Friday's storm is long gone but snow cover remains. Temperatures are quite cold this morning in the teens, with many areas experiencing single-digit wind chills.

Cellphone location data has been used to send millions of anti-abortion ads to people who visited Planned Parenthood offices.

Parents of five black public school students in the city went to federal court on Feb. 17, 1972, alleging that their schools were inferior to those in white neighborhoods.

Four Grammy-winning and Billboard-charting artists, Donnie McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Hezekiah Walker and Anthony Brown, will be performing at Friendly Temple Church for the Gospel Music Hall of Fame of Missouri's "The Legends" tour.

Construction to add an extra lane on Interstate 70 could begin this spring.

St. Louis judges and a special court committee are demanding answers from the city's sheriff about a long-collected fee, to the point that Missouri's Attorney General may get involved.

County executive Steve Ehlmann of St. Charles voiced his opinion, saying he does not support legislation from fellow Republican representatives that would force St. Louis City and county to pay for their residents who are incarcerated in St. Charles County Jail.

Cops see themselves as the roughest, toughest warriors to ever hit the mean streets. They adorn themselves with “blue line” flags and Punisher logos (hilarious, that last one), gear up in military garb, wave weapons at all and sundry whilst shouting at the top of their lungs. But when it comes to doing regular police […]

FENTON, Mo. - Road conditions changed quickly Friday from bad to worse.  “Slushie probably more icy on the way here," Ted and Scarlett Bachman said, traveling from Indianapolis to Bolivar, Missouri. “The roads were pretty bad, actually. Lots of trucks off the side of the road, lots of cars on the side of the road." [...]

"God knew that they wouldn't be able to survive without each other," family member Margo Saucedo said.

On Friday, tables were empty at Dave's Diner because of a quick-hitting storm that dumped several inches of snow in the area.

Spring training is upon us, but since no actual games have been played yet we need something else to be outraged about while we wait. Tyler Kepner of The Athletic reports that it's baseball's new uniforms: they're a "fashion flop" and an "assault on the eyes." But even by the end of a thousand word ...continue reading "Baseball’s new uniforms are literally violence against fans"

Joshua Keating asks today, "what does deterrence even mean, really?" It's a good question for at least two reasons: (a) deterrence against what? and (b) what's the evidence? The first question is critical. The most famous case of deterrence is the MAD doctrine during the Cold War. It worked! But in the modern world deterrence ...continue reading "Does deterrence work?"

St. Louis County officers shot the man at a home on the 4500 block of Virginia Avenue in St. Louis, according to charging documents.

Apparently the damages against Donald Trump in his business fraud case have been accumulating interest at a 9% annual rate for several years: On profits from the sale of the Old Post Office: interest is owed since May 2022. On profits from the sale of Ferry Point: interest is owed since June 2023. On everything ...continue reading "CORRECTION: Trump actually owes about half a billion dollars"