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The ticket was sold at a gas station and convenience store in Howell County, Missouri, ahead of the Oct. 26, 2022, drawing.

Chinese Cultural Days at the Missouri Botanical Gardens (4344 Shaw Boulevard, 314-577-5100, missouribotanicalgarden.org) is back, and this year, the event is focusing on its roots with a new theme: Celebrating Communities. “We are a community which has had a presence in St. Louis for 150 years,” says Min Liu, this year's host committee chair.

World Wide Technology Raceway's Raceway Gives program partners with the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, allowing the center's young members to spend time at the track for hands-on STEM education experiences.

Edward Jones and the University of Missouri-St. Louis co-lead the St. Louis Anchor Action Network. This coalition of local leaders in health care, higher education and the public and private sectors who are focused on improving equity by increasing the number of employees they hire and the amount of money they spend in local neighborhoods with high poverty rates.

The city's economic development agency's board of directors on Thursday approved up to $13 million in federal tax credits for the expansion of Powell Hall and a new Ronald McDonald House.

The health care system last year began depositing part of its balance sheet with the bank, which uses the funds to make loans to economically challenged people and businesses in 22 zip codes in north city and north county that don’t have easy access to traditional banking services.

Elon Musk has been on a tear of late, attacking the “mainstream media” at every turn. It’s true that this started about five years ago, when Tesla started getting some negative press (after about a decade of extremely positive press), and Musk seemed to absolutely lose his shit. It kinda comes with the territory, though, […]

The company and its nonprofit arm last year dispensed more than 4,500 pairs of glasses to young students through its Mobile Vision Clinics.

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans voted Thursday to prohibit transgender student athletes from competing on girls sports teams consistent with their gender identity, at the same time multiple GOP-dominated states are making similar moves. The bill, H.R. 734, which would apply to K-12 schools as well as colleges that receive federal funding, passed on a party-line […]

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HARDIN - The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is hosting a public informational meeting tonight about the potential rehabilitation or replacement of the Joe Page Bridge, which connects Calhoun and Greene counties via Illinois 16/100 over the Illinois River. IDOT is inviting the public to make comments, either at the meeting tonight or by email , online form , or calling (618) 346-3161 until May 4. The meeting will be held tonight from 5-8 p.m. at Calhoun High School, located at 102 Calhoun Ave. in Hardin. The meeting will be held in an “open house format,” and “no formal presentation will be made,” according to an IDOT press release. IDOT representatives and project consultant Hanson Professional Services Inc. will be at tonight’s meeting to discuss the project and answer questions. Handouts and display boards will also be available for the public to review, as will more information about engineering, land acquisition, and environmental

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The teenage girl was reported missing Wednesday. Police said she was found safe Thursday morning.

The St. Louis-based financial services firm donated nearly $430,000 in total cash donations in 2022. With revenue just short of $40 million, this made Royal Banks of Missouri the firm with the highest cash donations as a percentage of its revenue.

A bill in the Missouri statehouse that many farmers feared would have led to Missouri-sourced plant and animal products being labeled as a "Potential Gene Therapy Product" died in committee last night, much to the relief of both agricultural and biotech interests in the state.  The bill, HB 1169, was tied to the state’s burgeoning anti-vaccine movement, which lobbied heavily for it.

Centene Corp. donated $19.5 million locally in 2022, to organizations including the Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University and the Muny.

Appropriations committee completes work on spending by adding funds for new KC psychiatric hospital, rate increases for home care providers.

Artists Vicente Telles and Brandon Maldonado are forging new links in the chain of the continuing story of the people of New Mexico. Telles is firmly rooted in the santero tradition

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Jim Brainard’s exhibition “Bits & Pieces” creates assemblages made from found, often-neglected, objects such as tree bark, used matches, and corrugated cardboard. He also scavenges small mysterious pieces of trash

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