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Illinois State Rep. Kevin Schmidt plans to file a bill that will secure $600K for the city to rebuild.

The Missouri Senate is one step closer to approving an education reform package after days of meetings behind closed doors. 

"I want to invest in East St. Louis, I believe in the potential that it holds. I believe in the people of East St. Louis," said park organizer.

“They wouldn’t let me in the door,” Zoe McKelvie said. "They basically treated me like I was some sort of hostile entity."

Sanders was appointed as the top choice after a nationwide search of more than 15 candidates, according to the Mayor Mark Beckman.

5 On Your Side reached out to St. Louis police and MoDOT to get him answers.

Some metro east residents in unincorporated St. Clair County say a man in his 20s was naked and running through neighborhoods near Signal Hill Boulevard on Thursday afternoon.

The diligent work of University of Missouri -St. Louis as an institution of opportunity and empowerment through accessible higher learning and resources has made the region a better place over the past sixty years.

Def Leppard has announced a special livestream event tied to their most recent album, Diamond Star Halos. The Diamond Star Halos track by track livestream event will take place February 25 at 4 p.m. ET, with…

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Safer streets may soon be on the horizon for St. Louis city. A proposal to spend nearly $65 million of pandemic-aid relief money on street and sidewalk improvements passed the Board of Aldermen with 25 of the 28 aldermen voting in favor of the measure today.

Dan McLaughlin pleaded guilty nearly two months after leaving his post as the television play-by-play announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals.

To be sure, SWAT operations are pulled off flawlessly around the nation every day. The right addresses are hit. The right windows are smashed. The right doors are destroyed. The correct perps are arrested. The proper people are filled with bullets if needed, etc. But, far too often, they go wrong. Often more concerned with […]

An exhibit dedicated to Pearl Jam at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture is set to close in April after five years. Pearl Jam: Home and Away The Exhibition features over 700 original Pearl Jam artifacts,…

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After hundreds of Afghan refugees settled in St. Louis over the past year, the International Institute of St. Louis held a grand opening for its most recent initiative on Friday: a community center. The center, located in an office space at 3611 South Grand Boulevard in Tower Grove South, will offer a wide range of services for Afghan immigrants resettling in St. Louis.

Critically endangered elephants in the Congo Basin play a key role in creating forests, which in turn, store carbon and maintain the biodiversity of African rainforests. If the species becomes extinct, the second largest rainforest on earth would lose between six and nine percent of their ability to capture atmospheric carbon — that’s according to researcher Stephen Blake, an associate professor of biology at St. Louis University.

St. Louis Zoo and Brookfield Zoo in Chicago recently swapped two western lowland gorillas in an effort to help the survival of the critically endangered species. St. Louis zoological manager Helen Boostrom talks about how the recent gorilla swap plays into the goal of creating genetically healthy populations of the critically endangered species.

Earlier this week, the Pink Floyd feud seemed to escalate when Polly Samson, wife of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, lashed out at his bandmate Roger Waters on Twitter. Days later things aren't cooling down, with Waters now having a…

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