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I’ve spent the better part of two decades writing about how telecom monopolization (and the corruption that protects it) results in expensive, spotty, sluggish, broadband and historically terrible customer service. The cause of our substandard broadband isn’t much of a mystery, but because of these companies’ political influence, state and federal policymakers often lack the […]

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signs a bill Wednesday to give people facing evictions the right to have a lawyer.

The shortage of nurses, especially in rural areas, stretched many providers to their limits during the pandemic. A Certified Nursing Assistant in Boss, Missouri, about 2 hours southwest of St. Louis, says many CNAs are leaving because of low pay and little support from management.

New charges Wednesday morning involving a sex tape scandal at the St. Louis County Courthouse.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker heads overseas for the start of his 7-day trade mission to the United Kingdom.

Wednesday you can help "Hydrate Our Heroes" at Schnucks stores.

The Clayton Police Department is holding their annual FBI National Academy Associates Blood Drive Wednesday.

The Wentzville Police Department is raising money for Special Olympics, and you can help out while grabbing a bite to eat at Texas Roadhouse.

July 12, 1966, was a sweltering day in St. Louis that featured not only the Major League All-Star Game, but the first visit of the Rolling Stones to St. Louis. Here is how we reviewed that concert.

Starting Tuesday afternoon, it began to look more and more likely that Wednesday morning storms would stay just north of the St. Louis region, impacting northern Missouri and west-central Illinois. That means we are in store for a hot, more humid day with temperature highs in the mid 90s.  

Three people are dead after a Greyhound bus crash on Interstate-70 in Highland, Illinois, early Wednesday morning.

The AP examined hundreds of pages of internal memos, inspection reports and other items dating to the early 1950s.

If approved, the nominees will spend a year sifting through a document that shapes virtually everything that happens at City Hall.

The Missouri Independent and MuckRock spent months scouring thousands of pages of government records about St. Louis’ involvement in the race to build an atomic bomb during World War II and the decades of environmental contamination that followed. Journalists sought to lay bare the degree to which government officials knew of the spreading contamination and the danger it posed to St. Louis County residents.

For kids like Sandy Mitchell, Ted Theis and Janet Johnson, childhood in the north St. Louis County suburbs in the 1960s and '70s meant days playing along the banks or splashing in the knee-deep waters of Coldwater Creek. They caught turtles and tadpoles, jumped into deep stretches of the creek from rope swings and ate mulberries that grew on the banks. Their families — along with tens of thousands of others — flocked to the burgeoning suburbs and new ranch-style homes built in Florissant, Hazelwood and other communities shortly after World War II.

For kids like Sandy Mitchell, Ted Theis and Janet Johnson, childhood in the North St. Louis County suburbs in the 1960s and ‘70s meant days playing along the banks or splashing in the knee-deep waters of Coldwater Creek. They caught turtles and tadpoles, jumped into deep stretches of the creek from rope swings and ate […]

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The Missouri Independent and MuckRock spent months scouring thousands of pages of government records about St. Louis’ involvement in the race to build an atomic bomb during World War II and decades of environmental contamination that followed. Journalists sought to lay bare the degree to which government officials knew of the spreading contamination and the […]

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In the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio, disaster, other train towns wonder: Are we next?

The 10-inning game lasted all of 2 hours, 19 minutes - about how long the commercials will be for this year's game.