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The Missouri Botanical Garden says that Octavia now has a twin. The corpse flower responsible for three blooms at the garden split earlier this year. There are now two huge plants preparing to bloom.

Frontier Airlines is offering customer appreciation sales in honor of the company's 29th anniversary with flights as low as $29.

A new study ranks the Show Me State among the 10 worst states "to live and work" in 2023.

Authorities have not filed charges against any suspects one month after a downtown shooting killed a 17-year-old boy and injured 12 others; police said they are seeking six juveniles.

Some of today’s top musicians are opening up about their voices in a new book set for release this September.  The Singers Talk – The Greatest Singers of Our Time…

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SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on Tuesday that eliminating cash bail for defendants awaiting trial does not violate the Illinois Constitution. This allows a historic change to the criminal justice system to go forward over objections from county prosecutors who challenged the law. Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release from jail. “The Illinois Constitution of 1970 does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure criminal defendants appear for trials or the only means to protect the public,” Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in the majority opinion. “Our constitution creates a balance between the individual rights of defendants and the individual rights of crime victims.” The law eliminating cash bail creates a system “commensurate with that balance,” the court ruled. The Illinois Supreme Court decision came more than four months after the high

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A Hazelwood man is accused of robbing and assaulting another man while holding him at gunpoint.

The Parson administration last year took down a website providing access to state contract info, citing a new state privacy law. Critics said the administration misunderstood the law.

JERSEYVILLE - A man from Jerseyville who reportedly kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach and strangled her last month is facing two felony counts for battery, according to recent Jersey County court filings. Michael W. Steinacher, 22, of Jerseyville, was charged with one count of aggravated battery and one count of aggravated domestic battery. The description for the second count alleges Steinacher, while “knowing” the victim “to be pregnant … kicked her in the stomach.” The description of the first count alleges he “intentionally strangled” the victim, “in that he impeded the normal breathing or circulation of the victim’s blood by applying pressure on the throat or neck of the victim.” Steinacher was charged with a Class 2 felony for Count 1 - aggravated battery, and a Class 3 felony for Count 2 - aggravated domestic battery. The incident allegedly took place on or about June 15, 2023. Bail for Steinacher was se

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A 22-year-old gas station employee was shot in the head and killed in St. Louis' Dogtown neighborhood. He was identified as Iyaz Ahmed.

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William Corrigan, a former St. Louis County Circuit Court judge who rose to become the No. 2 official in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, will become managing partner of the Clayton office of a national law firm on Oct. 1.

Instagram has agreed to pay $68.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of violating privacy laws within Illinois.

The thumbs-up from a group influencial with Republican primary voters could represent a blow to Ashcroft’s GOP rivals.

The Applebee’s in Washington, Missouri is hoping for a large turnout this Wednesday, July 19. Not just for good business, but more importantly, for an important cause.

The tech press often gets called out for lazy journalism, and here we have yet another example. On Monday, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri posted that due to an influx of spam on Threads (and there’s been a lot), the company was tightening up its rate limits: He said: Spam attacks have picked up so we’re […]

Donald Trump wants Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis tossed off the investigation of Trump's attempt to change the presidential vote in Georgia. He also wants to quash the grand jury report into his actions. He has precisely no good argument to make in either case, but he nevertheless went straight to the state Supreme ...continue reading "Georgia court tells Trump to fuck off"