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A driver fleeing from police struck a Spire employee Wednesday morning in St. Louis. The employee is now hospitalized with severe injuries.

Legislation to make it harder for voters to amend the state constitution through the initiative petition process won initial approval in the Missouri House on Wednesday.  After more than two hours of debate, the legislation sponsored by House Speaker Pro Tem Mike Henderson was approved 106-50. It will need to be approved one more time […]

The post Missouri House gives initial approval to raising bar for voters to amend the constitution appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Brilliant ways to spend time together while visiting an iconic house, monument, botanical garden, and more in St. Louis.

Merchandise will be deeply discounted until it’s all sold, beginning with 30 percent off this weekend.

County Executive Sam Page's dormant crime commission will begin meeting next month after halting operations during the pandemic.

The lean, muscular and gorgeous Ed Walton, of Blue Max Leather Club, was tied to an X-cross as a leather-clad man (also from Blue Max) flogged him for the gallery of onlookers. Front and center was "Maven of Mardi Gras" Luann Denten, donning a tiara over a big blond wig and wearing a hooped Victorian gown, sipping from a champagne flute.

This article originally ran in Fox2 News Now on Jan. 31, 2023.  As the next generation of General Motors midsize trucks rolled off the assembly line last week, executives offer praise for the recent accomplishments of the Wentzville plant. “We take great pride in the fact people have confidence in us to execute these things,” Lamar Rucker, the plant’s executive […]

The post Praises are due for Wentzville GM plant appeared first on St. Louis Regional Freightway.

This is some bad looking precedent here. Everyone is right to be concerned about election disinformation, especially if that disinformation is intended to keep certain people from voting, but historically, it has been public officials facing criminal charges for voter suppression, rather than toxic Twitter trolls. And Douglas Mackey, known as “Ricky Vaughn” on Twitter, […]

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

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The day honors girl's and women's accomplishments, participation and the continued struggle for equality in sports.

Watch a livestream of Tyre Nichols' funeral service here at 1 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. ET.

A Missouri House committee heard a bill Wednesday that seeks to give school districts a way to recruit educators into “hard-to-staff” positions – though some worried it could have ill effects on teachers of popular subjects. State Rep. Ed Lewis, R-Moberly, told the Missouri House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee that his legislation has the […]

The post Lawmaker proposes tool to fill ‘hard-to-staff’ positions in Missouri school districts appeared first on Missouri Independent.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Six more weeks of winter or an early spring? Punxsutawney Phil made his prediction Thursday morning at Gobbler's Knob. The groundhog has spoken: Six more weeks of winter. In 2022, Phil also forecasted six more weeks of winter. 2023 now marks the 108th time Phil has seen his shadow since the [...]

A former top executive at one of St. Louis’ most active developers has sued the company and its principals for what he claims is the loss of millions of dollars of profits.

It’ll be a quiet day across the region, with more sun than clouds. Not as cold as it has been, but still below average for this time of year.

At the age of seventeen, Precious Barry already has a robust resume. The Riverview Gardens senior has served as a youth outreach coordinator for Cori Bush, a sex-ed intern for Pro-Choice Missouri and a member of the St. Louis County Youth Advisory Council.

State Rep. Donna Baringer is the latest guest on Politically Speaking, where she talked with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg about legislation around St. Louis’ ability to fight crime. Baringer is a Democrat who represents Missouri’s 82nd District in the Missouri House. After redistricting, that district takes in a number of neighborhoods in southwest St. Louis.