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CAHOKIA HEIGHTS – State Senator Christopher Belt joined Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Governor Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity on Tuesday in announcing the expansion of Gulfstream’s operations St. Louis Downtown Airport, enabling the company to increase completions and outfitting operations while investing in modernization at its Cahokia Heights location. “This expansion of Gulfstream adds to the growth the Metro East area is continuing to see,” said Belt (D-Swansea). “We are staying on top of the game by meeting the demands of the growing region, while leaving a positive impact for the aviation and aerospace industry and workforce.” Through a $28.5 million investment, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. – which designs, develops and services the world’s leading business aircraft – will be expanding its Cahokia Heights facility, which will enable the company to increase capacity for exterior aircraft

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India is seen as a strategic counterweight to China, and that has overridden any U.S. concerns about repression against ethnic minorities and the press.

Torkwase Dyson’s artwork engages urgent issues regarding architecture, infrastructure and the social and political impacts of the climate crisis, bringing them into conversation with historical and contemporary reflections on the

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On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, “Killing The Buddha”: Reconstructing Zen is the 2023 Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship exhibition, located in the Teaching

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On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, The Air That Inhabits features artworks by the current MFA in Visual Arts candidates of the Sam Fox

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On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until Aug. 6, African Modernism in America is the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connection between modern African

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A Warrensburg martial arts studio owner charged with child porn may have victimized at least one student, according to court documents.

Barbara Heise, a longtime St. Louis real estate broker with Remax Results, has been advocating against racial discrimination in housing for decades, primarily through a nonprofit organization that she co-founded with urban planner Rosalind Williams.

Outlaw Music Festival 4 p.m. Sunday, June 25.

Paul McCartney is setting the record straight about reports artificial intelligence was used to “extricate” John Lennon’s voice from an old demo, for what he says will be “the last Beatles record.” McCartney first revealed…

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Who’s that kid that can travel through time? It’s you!   Follow the adventures of three friends as they travel back in time to learn from real-life inspirational heroes when

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Take an overseas adventure in this immersive exhibit that transports families to China, a country where a quickly changing modern lifestyle intersects with ancient values. Explore what life is like

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Annual Kids Count report shows only 10 other states had the same or worse rates of child and teen deaths as Missouri in 2021.

Thursday 06/22 Ain't No Dancer If you haven't had a chance to check out Gay Asia, the film festival at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood, Webster Groves; 314-968-7485) that's been running all June, don't fret: They saved one of the best films for last.

ALTON - “It’s causing a bloodbath.” Those are the words of Susan Elmendorf, a woman who found herself on the side of the road Tuesday morning carrying turtles across Highway 367. She stopped because a large turtle had been hit earlier that morning, almost causing a car accident. For the next several minutes, she and another motorist shepherded more turtles from one side of highway to the other, dodging speeding cars and construction signs. “The turtles will keep going on that path because that’s their migratory path. They cross the road that they’ve taken for decades,” Elmendorf said. “And now all of a sudden, these turtles can’t get across, but they keep trying and they get halfway across the route and they’re just getting killed.” The highway cuts through the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers; it’s the road that many people take to cross the Illinois and Missouri border. Elmendorf said that most of the turtle

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An investigation is underway after a man was fatally shot Thursday morning in St. Louis' West End neighborhood.

The bakery competed on Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" in 2012 and won.