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This comes after two heated meetings that ended in shouting matches with no decision reached.

"The additional time will allow school officials to complete the investigations into the fighting that disrupted learning," the letter read.

Social media posts about barking dogs have things getting out of hand in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. The posts have drawn an outlandish response—not on social media but on a 45-foot stretch of fencing along the yard where the dogs live.

It’s been a decade since a federal court declared the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program (mostly) illegal. Judge Shira Scheindlin, in a 195-page decision, pointed out everything that was wrong with the program, which ignored the “Terry stop” parameters defined by the Supreme Court in its 1968 decision to engage in stops of anyone […]

One person is dead following a house fire Wednesday evening in St. Charles.

From running through crosswalks to speeding cars by kids walking and biking to school, parents are calling for an immediate change before someone is hurt.

United Auto Workers across the country could soon be going on strike. That means there could be a work stoppage at the General Motors Wentzville Assembly Center.

Senator Josh Hawley is going after credit card companies with new legislation aimed at the high interest rates they charge cardholders.

ALTON - The proposed Route 3 and Buckmaster Business District in Alton is moving forward after a public hearing about the proposal was held on Wednesday night. The city’s goals for the district are to incentivize development and fill vacancies in the area while generating more sales tax revenue. The new district is set to be bordered by Homer M. Adams Parkway to the north, Buckmaster Lane to the west, Oakwood Avenue to the south, and to the eastern edge of the property currently occupied by Big Lots and Goodwill. Planning & Development Director Greg Caffey said potential new tenants have been identified, and while he couldn’t disclose them publicly yet, he said he expects the district to be at full occupancy. City Clerk Cheryl Ingle said at the public hearing that “the goal of installing this business district is to provide an incentive for a developer to renovate a shopping center within the district boundary and bring the property back to full occupancy,

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It appears to be a thing lately for CEOs to blurt out their frustration over the fact that their workers want raises. "Nobody wants to work anymore" is the usual refrain. Or, since unemployment is demonstrably low, perhaps they admit that people are working, they just aren't working very hard. But it ain't true: Productivity ...continue reading "Labor productivity is very high these days"

At the start of the school year, all you needed to get into a high school football game was a ticket, but that’s not the case anymore.

Police called the fire "a grim reminder to all of us to be cautious and to educate our young ones about the dangers of playing with fire and household appliances."

Richie Palacios homered, rookie Drew Rom and four relievers combined on a three-hitter and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Baltimore 1-0 Wednesday night to trim the Orioles' lead in the AL East to two games.

The August spike in inflation was obviously bad news, but there's a bit of positive news in today's figures too: Inflation in goods has been below 2% for the entire past year, and last month's spike was the result of a transitory rise in gasoline prices. Nothing much to worry about. But inflation in services ...continue reading "A tidbit of good news about inflation"

It’s a common decongestant ingredient found in hundreds of over-the-counter medications. But now, the FDA’s Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee says phenylephrine doesn’t actually get rid of nasal congestion.