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The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.81% for the week ended July 27 — up from 6.78% the prior week.

Police said early information indicates 56-year-old Susan Becker of House Springs was hit while crossing a parking lot.

Under the Communications Act, the FCC is supposed to occasionally survey the state of the broadband industry to ensure that affordable broadband is being deployed on a “reasonable and timely basis,” and do something about it if it isn’t. Of course the captured, bumbling agency doesn’t actually do that. Despite spending $400 million on the […]

A local restaurant chain is adding two locations to its existing four sites.

Hazelwood School District officials are "disappointed" and "embarrassed" after an chaotic pep rally held at Hazelwood Central High School last fall led to a rising star local rapper getting escorted out of the school. The district invited rapper Sexyy Red, a St. Louis native, to perform at the high school along with other performers at a rally for the school's homecoming last October. The event didn't garner public attention until footage of it surfaced online a few weeks ago, causing some to criticize both the district and Sexyy Red.

The less-than-truckload carrier followed up layoffs by padlocking its freight yards.

One of the two smelly corpse flowers has bloomed at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The 7 p.m. meeting is scheduled to take place at the St. Charles Family Arena.

Major new funding to improve infrastructure is headed to the MetroLink systems on the Illinois side. The money is coming from President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law.  

Falling bricks have forced the closure of a busy section of a road in midtown St. Louis.

A driver crashed into two parked cars overnight.

Three vehicles collided overnight in south St. Louis.

Crews were at the scene of a fatal two-vehicle crash in Columbia, Illinois Monday morning.

Thousands of people are waking up without power Monday morning across the bi-state because of storms from over the weekend. Now cooling centers are ready to help.

ST. LOUIS — A new federally funded program aims to help those in need of affordable housing cover the cost of a security deposit.

During the year she was pregnant, Emily Murray wasn’t even supposed to be in her hometown of St. Louis. But as the pandemic raged, she wanted to have the baby while surrounded by family. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision.

Owner Izzy Polanco brings a speciality in fashion, including vintage clothes and accessories, to her new storefront.

Since 2003, Missouri has set aside a weekend at the beginning of August when families won’t pay state tax on new clothes and school supplies as they prepare for the start of the school year. For just as long, every city, county and special district that imposes its own sales tax has had the authority […]

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