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The USDA facility, one of three in the country, is on the site of a 150-year-old convent and will house employees moving from the Goodfellow federal complex.

"Welcome to Afghan Kabob House" reads the blackboard at the entrance to the Lindenwood Park restaurant. The message is in chalk, written in English and, presumably, Pashto or Dari toward the bottom of the blackboard.

Mary Eliza Mahoney, child of former slaves, graduated from nursing school in 1879. She later was co-founder of National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.

The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether two single mothers should have been sentenced to jail time because their children missed more days of school than the local district allowed. The case centers on Missouri’s compulsory school attendance law, which states that a parent must ensure their child attends “the academic program on […]

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MANHATTAN, Kansas — National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility researcher Lisa Hensley’s career took her from laboratory to laboratory and country to country to study the alphabet soup of ghastly pathogens such as SARs, monkeypox, MERs and Marburg. But she said an Ebola outbreak in the West Africa country of Liberia brought home what it meant […]

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Police are searching for two suspects connected with a shooting Tuesday evening at a Soulard gas station.

Sai Varshith Kandula was arrested Monday night after driving a U-Haul truck into bollards surrounding a park on the White House complex, federal investigators said.

The shooting happened shortly after 12:30 p.m. Monday at the Shell station on Tucker Boulevard near Convention Plaza.

A man shot and killed in a Central West End apartment hallway on Tuesday identified the shooter's apartment number before he died, according to charging documents.

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.

EAST ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Attorney's Office on Monday released information about a federal indictment of Jim F. Lanier, 49, of Marissa, being charged with the unlawful possession of a destructive device. In a previously filed complaint, the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleged that Lanier admitted to making a homemade pipe bomb that he intended to use to blow up his wife’s vehicle, and further admitted to lighting and throwing the device at people who confronted him inside a trailer park in Marissa, Illinois on April 29, 2023. Lanier was ordered detained pending trial. The device did not detonate, according to the complaint. The complaint further alleged that a second suspicious device was found stored among Lanier’s belongings. The unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device is punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment. “Destructive devices can be exceptionally dangerous to life and limb. All suspected cases of the unlawful possession

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Library social workers are hired as contractors through Epworth and will provide mental health support and crisis intervention for library patrons in need.

One of the more mysterious aspects of the debt ceiling crisis is what happens if we actually go over the edge. There are two basic possibilities: Treasury simply pays bills on a first-come-first-serve basis. So if X-Day arrives on, say, June 1, and Treasury runs out of cash at 11 am, all the bills still ...continue reading "Who gets paid if the US defaults on its debt?"

Yes released their new album, Mirror to the Sky, last week, and now they’re treating fans to a new animated video for the album’s closing track, “Circles of Time.”  The track is the…

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Two puppies are recovering after being abandoned in a dumpster in downtown St. Louis, the Humane Society of Missouri said.

The City of St. Charles has officially filed a lawsuit against Ameren Missouri over water contamination and damages linked to the city’s Elm Point Wellfield.