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A St. Louis man is suing Chesterfield after he was arrested and held in jail without ever being charged with a crime.

The Missouri Supreme Court has denied Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to appeal rulings against his ballot summary for initiative petitions seeking to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.  The court also rejected an appeal seeking to reject cost estimates crafted by Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.  The decisions came down Monday evening, less than a week after Ashcroft asked the state’s highest court to take up the case.  Ashcroft is attempting to keep the wording…

No one at City Hall filed paperwork with the state to turn on the spigot until last week.

Bailey’s post had been viewed more than 1.7 million times as of Monday afternoon as he runs for election in 2024.

Proposed roughly $8 increase per Collinsville household is debated by library trustees.

“AI” (or more accurately language learning models nowhere close to sentience or genuine awareness) has plenty of innovative potential. Unfortunately, most of the folks actually in charge of the technology’s deployment largely see it as a way to cut corners, attack labor, and double down on all of their very worst impulses. Case in point: […]

The city of St. Louis is potentially out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue since October. The city failed to file paperwork with the state of Missouri in time to collect sales tax on recreational marijuana. In April 2023, a proposition was passed to add an additional 3% sales tax in St. Louis city. It was meant to go into effect on Oct. 1, 2023. Yet, the St. Louis mayor's office says that the proper notification to marijuana purveyors and the required documentation to the State…

Re/Max settled two lawsuits alleging a conspiracy among residential brokerages, bringing the case closer to a resolution Monday.

A $25 million state grant program aims to help Illinois small businesses that launched during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The initiative provides $12,500 in forgivable home loans to benefits-eligible employees. The program has a long history in some St. Louis neighborhoods and has the city’s support.

The wait is over for fans of The Rolling Stones. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just announced they’ll be hitting the road next year. The Stones Tour ’24 Hackney…

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When students returned to classrooms around Missouri in August, only 601 had secured a scholarship through the MOScholars program as a returning recipient — half as many as were in the program in May.  There were also 247 first-time participants.  Three months into the school year, MOScholars has ballooned to 829 returning students and 675 […]

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Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Emergency crews are responding to a south St. Louis City business break-in Tuesday morning.

A Hermann police officer, severely wounded in a deadly shooting earlier this year, is finally coming home.

The man accused of hurting a FOX 2 news photographer during a Fox Files report is due in court Tuesday.

The Missouri Supreme Court declines to hear Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft's appeal about the wording of an abortion ballot issue.

Someone broke into an O'Reilly Auto Parts store overnight.