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Just hours after St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced plans for new gun legislation Tuesday, the Missouri Attorney General fired back and said her office is "on notice."

ST. LOUIS -- Schnucks has a popular loyalty program that was not accessible through self-checkout lanes. You had to use a traditional check-out lane to redeem rewards points. Now that is changing, and customers will be able to redeem rewards points and purchase gift cards at any point of purchase. Customers in the program earn [...]

Over 100 artists from more than 20 states will display their works at the Art Fair at Queeny Park.

The latest episode of Politically Speaking features state Rep. Doug Clemens talking with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg on the public policy response to radioactive waste contamination. Clemens represents Missouri’s 72nd House District, which takes in portions of northwest St. Louis County. He was first elected to his post in 2018.

The annual Festival of Nations celebration takes place Saturday, August 26 and Sunday, August 27 in Tower Grove Park. The event — a favorite among St. Louisans — features food, music, dance, and culture of over 75 nations.  This year’s lineup features several vendors from Cherokee Street. You may recognize them from our Calle Cherokee […]

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The federal fiscal year begins on October 1st and goes through September 30th. We are currently in FY23, which began in October 2022 and will end in a few weeks. But why? What's the deal with starting our fiscal year in October? I'm glad you asked. Here's the answer. For our first 50 years, we ...continue reading "Why does the government’s fiscal year begin on October 1st?"

EDWARDSVILLE – Visitors to the Edwardsville Schnucks store this weekend will be able to chat with members of the Edwardsville Police Department and support a great cause: Special Olympics Illinois. Past and present members of the Police Department will volunteer their time on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (August 25-27) at the entrance to Schnucks, 2222 Troy Road. They will be collecting donations and selling special edition Law Enforcement Torch Run T-shirts, hats, pins and raffle tickets. The effort supports Special Olympics Illinois, which provides training and competition for more than 55,000 athletes, coaches, volunteers and other partners in the state. The volunteers will be at Schnucks this Friday from 4-8 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Edwardsville Officer Haylee Doerflein is heading up the local effort and hoping for an enthusiastic response from the community. Doerflein, who is marking her one-year anniversary with the department, said the cause

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The city of St. Louis is paying a Belgium company nearly $10,000 to host an online platform that's taking ideas on how to use $250 million in Rams settlement cash.

With the dog days of summer in full swing, the St. Louis Wheel is offering a rare opportunity to bring your dog on a Ferris wheel ride.

A paper released today documents one of the most impressive uses of AI language models yet. A woman with ALS who was physically unable to speak—but still had a normally functioning language center in her brain—was fitted with electrodes that fed their output into a large language model similar to ChatGPT. It was able to ...continue reading "AI allows woman with ALS to speak again"

MoDOT says the temporary shutdown of the eastbound ramp will allow crews to install new streetlights.

A woman struck a 52-year-old man with a garbage can lid before he fatally stabbed her at a gas station on Delmar Boulevard earlier this week, charges said.

On August 23, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., there will be a ribbon-cutting for a new fast-casual restaurant called The Key Bistro. At The Key Bistro, customers will be able to eat French-style food and enjoy the Missouri History Museum, where the restaurant is located.

For the first time in a decade, the St. Louis Cardinals will lose the season series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. That will be the fate this year, even with one road game Wednesday and a home series with Pittsburgh remaining on the schedule.

The BLS reports today that it has revised its employment figures for the past year. Between March 2022 and March 2023 we produced 300,000 fewer jobs than we originally estimated. This is about 0.2% of all jobs, which isn't a lot. Here's what it looks like: Meh. The biggest loser was transportation and warehousing, which ...continue reading "We have (slightly) fewer jobs than we thought"