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Residents of Freeburg, Illinois, can get help evaluating their utility bills.

Apple has never looked too kindly upon users actually repairing their own devices, or using lower cost independent repair services. The company’s ham-fisted efforts to shut down, sue, or otherwise imperil third-party repair shops are legendary. As are the company’s efforts to force recycling shops to shred Apple products (so they can’t be refurbished and re-used). Recently, Apple […]

The Missouri Prairie Foundation is hosting a native plant sale at the St. Louis Community College Meramec campus Thursday.

About 2,000 workers at the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant are out of work after the company temporarily closed the plant because of a strike-induced shortage of crucial parts. Those components were coming from a St. Louis-area GM plant, one of three facilities nationwide the UAW struck recently.

An early childhood education operator based in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Bright Start Academy, which has multiple locations in St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri.

Police shot and injured a man while responding to a domestic incident Wednesday night in the Affton area of south St. Louis County.

The idea behind STL 2030 Progress is to examine three areas of data – metrics to track whether the region’s economy and population are growing, a map of capital projects since 2021 and a section of the website that tracks about 140 initiatives, said Sam Murphey, GSL’s chief strategy officer. The data will be updated regularly, he said.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra begins its 144th season with a free concert Thursday night on Art Hill in Forest Park.

You can hear the 'piano man' live once again.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Murphy Lee's "Murphy's Law" includes the Grammy-winning song "Shake Ya Tailfeather" with Nelly and P. Diddy.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has ordered the U.S. and Illinois flags to be half-staff Thursday in honor of a fallen metro east marine. Captain Eleanor 'Ellie' Leabau Cooke returns to her home in Belleville.

Doug Goldenberg will cut your bagel into quarters. He'll slice it in half, toast it and slather it with butter, if that's your preference.

A manhunt is continuing right now for a convicted child sex offender who escaped from Mercy South Hospital early Thursday morning. The hospital is just off Tesson Ferry not far from Interstate 270.

Delays in Missouri's mental health system are putting scores of criminal cases on hold and leaving vulnerable people to languish in jails that exacerbate their mental illnesses, experts say.

A man is in the hospital Thursday morning after authorities say he got into a gunfight with St. Louis County police, who were responding to a domestic disturbance call involving the man.

In a time of unbridled optimism, the railroad represented St. Louis when it was growing as fast as track could be laid down.

Where you can learn to paint like Bob Ross, make mole, and have a picnic with alpacas

Enjoy a memorable stay at one of these elevated spots for a quiet oasis in nature.

The Missouri Independent recently reported on the modest decline in the number of children in Missouri’s formal foster care system. Beneath the headline, however, the story revealed the urgent need to regulate the disturbing practice of hidden foster care — which Missouri’s Children’s Division has effectively admitted to practicing. That practice violates parents’ and children’s […]

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