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There were 11 shootings across the city in less than a 48-hour span.

To hear the recording industry tell the story, copyright is the only thing protecting musicians from poverty and despair. Of course, that’s always been a myth. Copyright was designed to benefit the middlemen and gatekeepers, such as the record labels, over the artists themselves. That’s why the labels have a long history of never paying […]

Fresh off a re-election victory, St. Louis Alderwoman Cara Spencer said she has quit her job at Saint Louis Bank to focus on the public post at a new 14-member Board of Aldermen. "I cannot thank enough (Saint Louis Bank) for the privilege of working for a true community bank to further our shared vision of a stronger St. Louis," she said in a social media message Friday. "I have learned so much and gained so many friends - thank you!" Spencer added that she's "excited to focus full time on the…

Today on TAP: The run on regional bank stocks will bring tighter regulation and lower interest rates.

The conversion, to allow construction of a new overpass, begins overnight Wednesday and will last much of this year.

St. Louis digital health startup Phas3, which provides software to help patients with cardiac rehabilitation, has been acquired Austin, Texas-based Ucardia.

Strong storms are expected to develop in the St. Louis area Monday afternoon and evening.

Ringo Starr doesn't appear to be slowing down. The 82-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced a fall set of dates with his All-Starr Band, made up of Toto's Steve Lukather, Men at…

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A year-long operation targeting Mexican drug cartels moving fentanyl and methamphetamine into communities across the country resulted in thousands of arrests and the seizure of more than $100 million in assets, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday.

The St. Louis-born mezzo-soprano rocked the operatic world as the rich-voiced "Black Venus" of Bayreuth in 1961.

Last week, Governor Mike Parson got on the "May is beef month" bandwagon, holding an actual event and putting out a press release announcing that Missouri, like the rest of the U.S., cares a whole lot about helping local farmers make ends meat. While we reluctantly got to say well done to our Republican governor, we're a little surprised to see beloved St. Louis roast beef chain Lion's Choice jumping in on the action with a Twitter campaign aimed at stirring up some trouble with Arby's. Lion's Choice announced its intentions on May 2 with a Tweet: "It's #NationalBeefMonth and we'll be beefing with @Arby's all month long.

The volunteers at St. Animal Pet Adoptions can’t believe that one of their favorite dogs, Zayne, still hasn’t found a forever home.

There’s some sad news for fans of the '80s band Kix. While performing this weekend, the band’s frontman, Steve Whiteman, announced that the group is calling it quits.  “I wanna make an announcement…

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The internet has revolutionized communications, sales, and information distribution, and has enabled historic levels of porn consumption. These are all unequivocally good things. (Fight me.) What it has also done is revolutionize court precedent. Prior to internet ubiquity, courts were sometimes more receptive to plaintiffs attempting to hold third parties responsible for content generated by […]

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After this weekend's deadly shooting outside the Exotic Bar and Grill on Cherokee Street, a nearby business owner tells the RFT that she's been trying for years to alert elected leaders and the police to the violence that seems to regularly occur outside the bar. Brittany Morris owns Love Goddess Healing Oasis, a spiritual healing center adjacent to Exotic, and she says that shootings outside the business next door are nothing new. In the three years she's been in business, Morris estimates there have been about five or six shootings outside Exotic.

At the Missouri State Capitol in January, Keeley Kromat did one of the few things she thought she could do: She begged.  Kromat, a mother of two daughters, told a room full of strangers some of her family’s most personal stories in a plea for them to reconsider a bill that would restrict health care for transgender minors. 

“Blood on your hands if no action taken!” said one GOP senator.