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The report shows tax breaks adding up to $260.7 million in losses to area schools over the last six years.

Staffing agencies – a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans – are not exempt from the state’s antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled late last week. The decision comes three and a half years after state Attorney General Kwame Raoul sued a trio of staffing agencies, alleging they used their mutual client to coordinate no-poach agreements, which created a secondary agreement to pay temp staffers less than the market rate. In a unanimous 20-page opinion published…

Legislation seeking to create a “parents bill of rights” in Missouri was amended in committee Tuesday morning to add prohibitions on transgender students accessing restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. A House hearing on standalone bills that sought to regulate school bathrooms took up the majority of a nearly nine-hour meeting […]

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The state’s Child Care Assistance Program workers want higher pay and retirement benefits. The initiative provides affordable services for low-income families throughout Illinois.

The Denver-based airline said Tuesday that it will begin serving Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to and from Lambert with four flights each way a week.

A woman has died after a fatal house fire in Wood River, Illinois.

State lawmakers were informed last week that it will cost taxpayers $1.2 million to defend a rule on investment brokers that Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says is designed to stop “politically motivated” financial advisers who want to “fritter away Missourians’ money.” Ashcroft issued a new rule in July targeting environmental, social and governance, or […]

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Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are investigating a double murder in north St. Louis.

Water main breaks are becoming an increasingly big issue in our area, impacting many people.

A St. Louis teachers union looks at the impact of tax abatements on school funding.

Paraquad and First Integrity Mortgage Services want to educate first-time home buyers who are disabled.

A crime spree occurred Wednesday morning at T-Mobile phone stores across the area.

A former St. Louis alderman won't get a break on a three-year federal prison sentence.

St. Louis County Council Chairwoman Shalonda Webb is withdrawing her public safety control measure.

St. Louis' College Hill neighborhood will soon have a new source for sweet treats. Uhuru Food & Pies is set to open this summer at 3719 West Florissant Avenue in what used to be Kay's Kitchen. The Oakland, California, business has an unusual model.

The pork shoyu ramen is just one example of the quality offerings at Steven Pursley’s acclaimed 24-seat ramen shop in Lindenwood Park.

Jasmine Raskas first picked up a paint brush in high school but didn't take her skills seriously until 2016 and her first exhibition. "I had been making art my whole life and always believed I would retire as an artist, or get to it more seriously at some later point in life," Raskas says.

The personal mixes with the surreal with the mythical in Brian Latham's artwork. Take, for example, his print Know You're No Remedy.

For Simiya Sudduth, art really got started with Frida Kahlo. "I've always been a creative person," Sudduth says, explaining that she'd picked up her artist mom's Kahlo book one day.

Narrative prints filled with satisfying linework and whole worlds of layered meaning. Bright murals that draw upon tarot to deliver powerful messages about healing and equality.