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Leah Sage came across an interesting new app on Facebook three years ago. The app, SudShare, boasted that "sudsters" could make up to $20 per hour by washing strangers' laundry.

Tuesday is the 300th anniversary of the Illinois National Guard. It dates back to 1723, when the Illinois militia first mustered at Kaskaskia, Illinois.

The effort began after firefighter Ben Polson, 33, was killed while responding to a fire in a vacant building.

Date of sighting: April 27 Location: Locust Street and North 10th Street

“The current Supreme Court is a lawless institution that is dangerous to our democracy,” Bush said Monday.

The St. Louis native who started his career as a background dancer for Janet Jackson, Usher, Beyonce, and Justin Bieber returns to his hometown for a show tomorrow.

Carl Phillips, the author of several books of poetry and an English professor at Washington University, has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Despite oodles of regulatory favors and millions of dollars in spectrum sales, Sinclair Broadcasting is shuttering what passes for local “news” in another five markets, continuing a wave of layoffs making an already bad problem worse. You might recall that Sinclair’s long been under fire for heavily consolidating a very broken local news sector, often […]

A man was shot and killed, and a trooper is recovering from injuries after an early Tuesday morning shootout.

One in 1,000 Americans are affected by secondary lymphedema. It’s a chronic disease when there’s an increased collection of lymphatic fluid in the body that causes swelling. Those with cancer are known to develop lymphedema, which can lead to skin and tissue changes, according to the National Institutes of Health. Sometimes those with lymphedema can inherit the disease, known as primary lymphedema, which is much rarer. You can be born with lymphedema, develop it during puberty, or later. There’s no cure for lymphedema. It’s a disease, and one like diabetes that you have to manage through treatment. Treva Haney, a supervisor in Rehabilitation Services at OSF HealthCare, says her team works through different treatment plans with patients to meet their specific needs. “Usually the plan of attack for treating lymphedema is complete congestive therapy,” Treva says. “This involves compression bandaging and a special, lymphatic massage.”

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State officials said the city of Brentwood violated the Missouri Clean Water Act. This comes after the demolition of the Breckenridge Industrial Court Bridge polluted Deer Creek with polystyrene foam. Brentwood Mayor David Dimmitt said demolishing the bridge was part of a bigger picture. “It is to address the flood mitigation which has been a public safety issue for decades,” he said. This was all part of the Brentwood Bound redevelopment project along Manchester Road. This part of the project…

Awaken your body and bask in the morning sunlight! This gentle yoga practice is designed to energize and align your body and mind through movement and breath. Bring your own

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Students all over the country, including children in Missouri, continue to suffer from learning loss, as well as inadequate academic and social support at school brought on by the pandemic. Compounding this problem is the fact that although decades of research show teachers being the single most important school-based factor impacting student achievement, many of […]

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The Black Crowes teamed up with Darius Rucker for a performance of “She Talks To Angels” on the CMT Music Awards last month, but that was only the beginning of their collaboration. The artists came…

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There's new information into an investigation over Missouri students being physically restrained or forcibly removed and isolated.

The St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association is having its 31st annual Police Officer Memorial Prayer Breakfast Tuesday.