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St. Louis Alderman Rasheen Aldridge says no one in public safety should make less than $48,000.

A man from Florissant pleaded guilty to robbing three banks and shooting at Jefferson County deputies.

St. Louis County will reconsider a plan to give senior-citizen homeowners a property tax break after rejecting it last month.

MARYVILLE - Scooter’s Coffee, best known for its amazingly fast drive-thru, specialty coffee, and baked-from-scratch pastries, added a new location at 2119 South Center Street, Maryville, Illinois. To celebrate, the drive-thru location will be hosting a Grand Opening on Friday, August 18, where customers can buy one drink to get one free when they pay with the Scooter’s Coffee mobile app. With the app, customers earn three “Smiles” for every dollar spent to collect toward free drinks for their loyalty. To scoot through faster, customers can also link a credit card to the app and select “Pay/Earn Smiles” from the home screen. Then, if they choose to tip, customers can select a custom amount or percentage prior to scanning their app. To scoot through even faster, Mobile Order Ahead is also available. Ordering ahead allows customers to order their favorite drinks and food, pay ahead, and pick up quickly at the drive-thru window. The Scooter’s

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Livestock are big business in the U.S. Here’s one way farmers are saving their herds.

Regulators said the products, sold by Franklin County-based Delta Extraction, “were not compliantly tracked” so the state could verify they were derived from Missouri-grown marijuana and passed required testing.

A black-comic story of an alien invasion — or, more exactly, an alien insinuation — Landscape with Invisible Hand can’t be faulted for a lack of ambition. Through its science-fictional funhouse mirror, the film manages to reflect a number of urgent contemporary issues — primarily income inequality, but also the deformation of our behavior by both traditional and social media, the seductively dangerous lure of technology and the falsity of the market’s “invisible hand” ensuring that the common good somehow results from the pursuit of self-interest.

J.B. Pritzker has put the brakes on the state building new nuclear power plants. A nuclear power expert says it’s a missed opportunity.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson will sign updates to the state's NIL bill. It allows athletes to make money from their name, image, or likeness.

A third Fields Foods location closed its doors Monday as the chain readies its transition to new ownership.

The Missouri School Board of Education may adopt some new proposals today to improve student behavior in the classroom.

The city of St. Charles is fully relying on St. Louis for drinking water after it shut down the Elm Point Water Treatment Plant on Sunday. In a Monday announcement, the city said the level of free ammonia in the raw groundwater, which is vital for disinfecting the water, had suddenly dropped for an unidentified reason. The plant has run for 70 years by using the water's naturally occurring ammonia to react with chlorine, which produces mono-chloramines that act as the water distribution system's…

Every few months a media outlet will get a staffer to write an inane story about how if you subscribe to every streaming service in existence, you’ll unsurprisingly wind up paying almost as much as you’d pay for cable TV. The underlying message is usually that we haven’t actually made real progress and that gosh, […]

An animal control or shelter site? A motorsports, go-cart track or other recreational facility? A memorial or museum site? Renewable energy site? Return the land to native tribes? All are among the potential uses for one of the city’s former jails known as The Workhouse, at 7600 Hall St., that a steering committee says it is willing to continue to explore based on the 790 responses it got to a community survey. Some of the uses eliminated from consideration include a job and business training…

St. Charles officials have temporarily shut down the city's water treatment plant and are now buying all the city's drinking water from the city of St. Louis.

Steel manufacturer Esmark Inc. said Monday afternoon it had made a cash tender offer for United States Steel Corp. in what could shape up for a battle between Esmark and Cleveland-Cliffs for the century-old Pittsburgh company.

Crews are at the scene of a house fire Tuesday morning.

The political timing is better for the plan to give senior homeowners a break on property taxes because the St. Louis County Council is also considering a tax break for a giant aerospace corporation, Councilman Dennis Hancock said.

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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There's a clothing giveaway taking place in Cahokia Heights this week.