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Officials with New Life Evangelistic Center, led by the Rev. Larry Rice, said they’d moved on from the old days, when they hosted hundreds of people per night.

Federal authorities charged a group of St. Louis-area clinics with improperly billing Medicare and Medicaid. The clinics are run by a former CEO of South City Hospital.

The National Weather Service in St. Louis has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for the City of St. Louis

The time to become skeptical of something is when, after a long period of fruitlessly waiting for the opposite to happen, everyone finally gives up and agrees it must be true. That's the current state of things regarding the sudden consensus predicting a "soft landing" for the economy. Jeanna Smialek has more in the New ...continue reading "Conventional wisdom finally agrees we’re going to have a soft landing. That’s why you should remain doubtful."

Lynyrd Skynyrd will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their debut album, Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd', in August, and they are celebrating with a new whiskey. The band just launched Hell House Whiskey, which is…

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A man was indicted Thursday in federal court on felony charges linked to a murder-for-hire plot more than a decade ago.

The heat index is forecast to be 100 degrees in St. Louis at 9 p.m. Thursday, when St. Louis City SC's Leagues Cup game kicks off.

A St. Louis physician who operates multiple urgent cares as well as a south city hospital was arrested by federal authorities today on conspiracy charges. Prosecutors allege that patients at Dr. Sonny Saggar's healthcare facilities were attended to by people who were assistant physicians not under proper supervision. According to an indictment filed yesterday against Saggar, his medical offices made wide use of assistant physicians, who have graduated from medical school and have passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination, but have not completed a postgraduate residency.

The Loop Trolley is suspending operations until further notice due to extreme heat.

Six years after St. Louis city forced it to close, New Life Evangelistic Center will stay shuttered despite an effort to bring the former homeless shelter back as a church.  The city’s Board of Building Appeals unanimously sided with neighbors of the former shelter in Downtown West, who appealed the city’s decision to grant New Life a building permit to renovate the space at 1114 Locust Street. 

Donald G. Keeven is accused of causing a crash that killed his 41-year-old passenger Larry Peeples.

The DOJ promised it wouldn’t target journalists and their sources during leak investigations. It also said wouldn’t engage in questionable CFAA prosecutions that appeared to involve nothing more than unapproved (or unexpected) access to data. Both of those self-imposed restrictions seem to have been ignored in a case involving former Deadspin contributor Tim Burke and […]

On a hot summer day we often hear the word dew point being used. What is dew point? It is the measure of the moisture in the atmosphere, usually near the surface, scientifically it is the temperature to which air mush be cooled to reach saturation.

AUSTIN, TEXAS - Tesla announced earlier this month that the first production-model Cybertruck has officially been built at the company’s “Giga Texas” factory. Nearly two million people have already paid to reserve their Cybertruck once Tesla begins mass production - are you one of them? Let us know in the polls throughout this story. Tesla made the announcement on Twitter (currently rebranding as “X”) on July 15 with the caption, “First Cybertruck built at Giga Texas!” Nearly 2 Million Reservations Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted in 2019 that there were 250,000 Cybertruck reservations placed just one week after it was first announced. An online reservation tracker estimates the current number of reservations to be 1,943,876. Each reservation requires a $100 deposit, totaling over $194 million so far. Tesla claims the Cybertruck will have “better utility than a truck with more performance than a sports car”

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Co-owner Ono Ikanone hopes to share his native country's culture with his adopted hometown via traditional Nigerian cuisine and an inspired atmosphere.

WASHINGTON COUNTY – The Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) on Thursday announced the arrest of three Belleville men - 44-year-old Kevin Loucks, 57-year-old Milton Robinson, and 45-year-old Arrion Sanders - for First-Degree Murder (Class M Felony). The arrests come after an exhaustive investigation into the murder of 44-year-old Montez Pearson. On July 19, 2023, Pearson was located deceased near Lunte Creek Road in Washington County. Loucks was taken into custody on July 23, 2023, after a search warrant was executed at his residence in Belleville. Robinson was taken into custody the next day, while Sanders was taken into custody on July 27, 2023, both in Belleville. The ISP was assisted during the investigation by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the Belleville Police Department. All three suspects remain in custody at the Washington County Jail with bond set at $1,000,000, 10 percent to apply. No further information will

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ALTON - Four local parents are joining forces to provide backpacks and school supplies for kids who need them. The group will host its third “Back to School Fish Fry and Backpack Giveaway” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5 at Alton Middle School. Families can come to enjoy a free lunch and get the school supplies they’ll need for the school year. “We have five children of our own,” Jiuana Evans, who started the event, explained. “It hasn’t always been easy being able to get supplies for everybody and get them all set to go back to school. But we’ve been blessed to be able to do that now for our own children, so I’m just happy now that I’m in a position to be able to give back.” A child must be present to receive a backpack. In addition to backpacks and school supplies, the event will also provide a few computer spaces so that parents can register their kids for school. Employees from the Alton school

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