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Beginning Monday, a Missouri law will penalize drivers for using their cell phones while the car is moving. Inattention is a leading cause of collisions, said Captain John Hotz, director of public information and education for the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Between 2017 and 2021, roughly 380 people died in incidents involving a distracted driver, according to the Missouri Coalition for Road Safety. But law-enforcement officers can’t penalize someone just for holding a phone. A driver must…

The Leadership School, which opened last year in Pagedale, fell below the minimum 3% fund balance required by state law.

Hawley is one of eight senators to ask FBI boss Christopher Wray to be more forthcoming about the memo, which Wray discounted in March as being the work of one FBI field office.

Another law with a St. Louis impact is the removal of the residency requirements for city workers — a change the mayor worked for as the city struggles to recruit.

"The only thing that prevented it was a total lack of talent."

A St. Louis man appeared at the Carnahan Courthouse on Monday and admitted to sexually assaulting two girls he met online.

The Chuck E. Cheese Big Day of Birthdays will be held at locations across the US and Canada on Thursday, September 7, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Nearly the entire police force raided the Marion County Record in August 2023. The search warrant was later withdrawn after the Marion County Attorney determined that it was based on “insufficient evidence.”

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Caitlin Vogus spoke to the Lawfare podcast last week about the police raid of the Marion County Record, its chilling effect on the press, and steps journalists can take to protect themselves against future police raids and other searches.

As Vogus, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), told Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien:

“The raid on Marion was rare, but it is not the only type of violation of press freedom that’s in a similar vein that we’re concerned about at Freedom of the Press Foundation. … We have to stay vigilant about press freedom in the U.S. We can’t be complacent and think we have the First Amendment and everything is fine.”

Listen to the whole podcast.

FPF also led national discussions on News Nation with Chris Cuomo, Scripps News Morning Rush, and the News in Context podcast.

After 25 years, Phil Horton left the NASCAR series to join Indy Car racing, and now serves as coach of the Colton Herta pit crew team which competed in Sunday’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway in…

KISS is getting closer to the end of their final tour, and Gene Simmons is feeling good about the band’s decision to retire from the road. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Simmons says…

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A charter school is looking to convert a long-vacant industrial complex in south St. Louis as its new school campus, in a plan that would see some of the site's five historic buildings demolished while preserving others.

A lone rider makes her way up the escalator from the Madeleine metro station in Paris.

ControlTech Automation, a St. Louis-based electrical equipment manufacturer that's an operating company of privately held Barry-Wehmiller, recently moved to a new, larger facility.

GenAssist Inc., a St. Louis-based startup creating a sponge designed to provide muscle regeneration after traumatic injuries, plans to begin testing its technology on pigs after winning a federal grant.

A legal dispute arising from allegations of cheating at a major chess tournament played in 2022 in St. Louis has been resolved, parties to the matter said Monday.

A St. Louis County police officer shot a man following an attempted carjacking late Monday morning near a north county strip mall.

In the Wall Street Journal today, Andy Biggs takes issue with a recent GAO report that says retirement savings are in trouble, especially for low-income workers: Among all households of workers 51 to 64 earning more than $20,000 in 2019, 80% either have a retirement account or are entitled to traditional pension benefits. Even among ...continue reading "How are we doing on retirement these days?"