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Dogtopia, a dog daycare, overnight boarding and spa franchise, on June 12 opened a new location in St. Louis.

Heavy rain over the winter eased the drought in the West, but now the middle of the country is extraordinarily dry.

Today on TAP: Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, and 1,000 other disgruntled actors tell their union not to meet the studios halfway.

The last concert featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd’s late founding member Gary Rossington is set to hit theaters in July, and now, fans are getting their first look at that particular performance. A sneak peek of The 50th…

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The bank's board didn't intentionally seek a new CEO from outside of its current leadership team, but ended up landing an outsider that its chairman says already "feels like one of us."

Attorney for Democrats says Hawley should donate proceeds from “Manhood” book to cover the tab.

The U.S. senator from Missouri calls the COVID report “a complete joke” and accuses the Biden administration of being a “shill for China.”

The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful […]

From Leader Publications:  It’s not evident if you’re peering in on the riverfront at the former Doe Run Co. site in Herculaneum, but work continues to build a container-on-vessel port. “We’re still planning for it to open in the fourth quarter of 2025,” said Jim McNichols, executive director of the Port Authority. “I’m more hopeful […]

A new daily baseball challenge begs the question, which current or former St. Louis Cardinals have played for the most teams in Major League Baseball?

A couple of months ago it looked like GDP growth had slowed down a lot, clocking in at an anemic 1.1% in the first quarter. Then it was revised upward to 1.3%. Then, today, it was revised upward yet again: BEA now says that Q1 growth was 2.0%. That's not barnburning, but it's respectable. GDI ...continue reading "Economic growth is better than you think"

With temperatures at or near 100, everyone is at risk of fallin victim to heat illness.

Police on Wednesday afternoon found a man's body in the north eastern area of Forest Park.

Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, which raises money for his Crossroads rehab center in Antigua, is returning in September. In a new post on Instagram, he explains why the festival is…

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After what one judge called "a roller coaster," the cases against two men accused of killing a 7-year-old and her father more than two years ago have been set for trial. This is hardly the first time that the murder cases against Javonn Nettles and Andre Anderson have been set for trial but, in a signal of increased confidence in the prosecutor's office under Gabe Gore, court watchers expect these new trial dates to actually hold true.

All seven men were charged with grooming and many of them were charged with indecent solicitation of a child.

In a ruling that surprised precisely no one, the Supreme Court killed off affirmative action in university admissions today: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. And the Equal Protection Clause, we have accordingly held, applies “without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality”—it is “universal in [its] application.” ....The ...continue reading "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action for good"

When I was but a wee Techdirt boy, the FBI was telling cop shops that had borrowed or obtained Stingray devices they’d best not talk about it in court or it would be their NDA’ed ass on the line. In 2015, documents the FBI hoped no one would see (and actually told local cops they […]