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Missouri lawmakers are being asked to approve a pay boost for state workers as soon as possible because many departments are being forced to pay overtime due to 7,000 job openings across state government. 

St. Louis firefighters returned to the scene of the fire at Bob Kramer's Marionnettes Monday morning to discover the cause of the deadly fire.

The fallen officer’s mother said her son went to work every day to make the community safer.

The break-ins happened at the Armory on Friday night and City Foundry on Saturday night.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating multiple car break-ins at various entertainment venues downtown.

Local filmmaker Josh Guffey directed his debut feature-length film in St. Louis and surrounding areas. Starring Tony Todd as drug kingpin Lamont Hughes, “All Gone Wrong” follows a detective trying to clean up a small town in Illinois. The film took Guffey 15 years to create and will start streaming January 27.

We’ve long covered the trend of communities building their own broadband networks. It’s a movement directly created by decades of anger at telecom market failure, poor service, and monopolization. But since 2015, Vermont officials have taken things to an entirely different level. In 2015, the state legislature greenlit the creation of Communications Utilities Districts (CUDs). […]

A driver who struck and killed a Brooklyn police officer while fleeing other cops will spend the rest of his life in prison.

One victim caught a thief in the act on his dash camera video.

The new company is pursuing senior living projects across the country and is already in the process of acquiring four Midwest facilities.

Chip Caray, grandson of former St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Harry Caray, is expected to join the St. Louis Cardinals broadcast team for the upcoming season.

Under a law passed by the Legislature in 2021, St. Louis city and St. Charles County have begun allowing couples to get marriage licenses online without appearing in person at government offices.

In June 2022, minutes after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Missouri led the nation as the first state in the U.S. to enact an abortion ban. A new lawsuit, filed by faith leaders in Missouri, is challenging that ban, arguing that it not only violates the separation of church and state, but also the beliefs of other religions. Discussing the lawsuit, and their religious objections to Missouri's abortion ban, are Moharat Rori Picker Neiss, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis; Democratic state Representative Barbara Phifer, and Bishop Deon Johnson of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri.

A drag performance last week at a diversity event attended by Columbia middle schoolers was “high-brow and innocent,” not the salacious sexual display alleged by Missouri Republicans, the marketing director for the group behind the performance said Sunday. At the annual Columbia Values Diversity Breakfast, timed to be near the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, […]

The post Drag performers at Columbia event push back against Missouri Republican attack appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Roger Dierberg, scion of the Dierberg family and former executive vice president of Dierbergs Markets grocery stores, died Wednesday, a few days shy of what would have been his 89th birthday.

Billy Idol is hitting the road this spring. The rocker, who earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, just announced a new set of tour dates, kicking…

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For more than a quarter-century, Robert Matonis has attended a concert in St. Louis every day, dancing his way into the fabric of local lore as "Beatle Bob."