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The Missouri House on Tuesday gave initial approval to an open enrollment plan that would allow students to attend class in districts where they don’t reside.

The 2021 law violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes wrote.

GODFREY - The RiverBend Growth Association has chosen to honor the Alton River Dragons with its March 2023 Small Business of the Month award, as the baseball team gets ready for Season 3 at the ballpark. The Alton River Dragons are a collegiate summer baseball team, founded in 2020 as part of the Prospect League, Western Conference, Prairie Land Division. The team began playing in 2021 at Alton’s Lloyd Hopkins Field, located at Gordon Moore Park and were division champions in 2022. “The idea and mission/concept of the Alton River Dragons Baseball Team started in 2019,” noted Owner Steve Marso. “I began exploring cities for a potential expansion franchise in the Prospect League. I had worked in baseball prior for around 25 years or so but had been out of the business for about four years. I had the idea to get back into the business, and after looking at a couple of other markets, our league commissioner called and said, ‘What about Alton, Illinois?’”

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With two goals in as many matches, the Brazilian striker is getting comfortable with his new team.

Fire crews are responding to flames at a north St. Louis City home Wednesday morning.

A woman was struck and killed Wednesday morning.

Gentleman Jim Gates was the first St. Louis DJ to play rap music on the radio. He included "Rapper’s Delight" on East St. Louis station WESL. Gates says the record was a watershed moment for the genre across the region.

Demariol Byrd took a plea deal moments before the trial was set to begin.

Several education advocacy groups are holding a town hall meeting today. That includes a retired St. Louis Public Schools teacher and a member of the St. Louis Public Schools' Board of Education.

Ritenour School District is holding an open house to discuss how to redraw its elementary and middle school boundaries.

Concession workers are needed at Busch Stadium.

Women only make up 10% of the construction workforce. That's the highest it's ever been.

A Missouri gun law is now considered unconstitutional by a federal judge, but the legal battle appears to be far from over.

WASHINGTON — The so-called mining for digital assets, or cryptocurrency, consumes as much electricity as some entire nations, and U.S. senators explored the issue Tuesday in what they said was their first-ever hearing focused on the energy implications of digital currency. Crypto mining in both Nebraska and Pennsylvania was discussed in particular by the members […]

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WASHINGTON — Economists on Tuesday urged Congress to address the debt limit quickly, cautioning that simply because U.S. lawmakers have successfully brokered deals before doesn’t mean they will be able to this year. “There is a temptation to brush off the developing debt limit drama, thinking it will end the same way as the others […]

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How disaster relief leaves Kentucky’s landslide victims behind.

The Interior Department initiative will prioritize Indigenous culture and expertise.

Is involvement in elections a source of synergy—or distraction?

The expiration of the COVID public-health emergency will make it harder to obtain treatment. But hurdles already existed in the law.