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The investigation into the federal crime is shining new light on a scheme that touches anyone who uses the mail.

One state senator wanted "local control" when it came to regulating a proposed landfill near his district. Another stood up for him, but then faced heat for seeking to strip local powers in the city of St. Louis.

Police have arrested a man accused of firing shots in a MetroLink train shooting earlier this month.

The home, built by French immigrant Antoine Reeb in 1870, was burned in a Feb. 20 fire.

A Collinsville teenager was charged Friday with shooting and killing a person earlier this week.

The former St. Louis Mills mall is already looking more like an industrial space than a shopping center, with the bright colors replaced by the gray shell of industrial space.

Growing up ravenous for any “young adult” content that offered the slightest glimpse of sexuality, I — along with generations of girls — gravitated to Judy Blume novels like a shark drawn to (menstrual) blood. But I was never a Margaret fan. Give me Deenie any day.

We’ve noted for decades how telecom monopolies convinced corrupt state legislatures to pass counterproductive bans on creative community broadband networks. The bills are protectionist crap that are ghost written by telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast, and designed to protect their regional broadband monopolies from grass roots competitive disruption on a town by town level. […]

PRISM Theater Company delivers suspense with the taut, well-acted Doubt In the mid 1960s, a prestigious catholic run private school welcomes its first Black student and a new, youthful priest with a less rigid approach to education at the same time.

A music instructor in the Metro East is behind bars and accused of sexual misconduct involving minors.

Police said a gun went off as the men were fighting on the train.

Yesterday, a circuit court judge succinctly summed up the disorder of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office as a “rudderless ship of chaos.” The eloquence of this comment has garnered Judge Michael Noble a spot in our inaugural 15 Seconds of Fame column, where we honor someone bringing attention to our area (for the right or wrong reasons).

The victim was barely breathing when police found him about 10:15 p.m. in the 2800 block of Chippewa Street. He had been thrown from a pickup truck that struck a house. He died later at a hospital.

County council members unanimously agreed this week to spend $1.6 million to hire more than two dozen new officers for the jail, despite recently raised concerns about budget mismanagement.

A judge has begun the process to hold St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and her deputy, Chris Desilets, in "indirect criminal contempt” because he missed a trial and a hearing this week related to an armed robbery case. Attorneys Sarah Swatosh, Bill Freivogel and Arindam Kar discuss that case and other legal issues.

The troubled Barat Academy in Chesterfield said Friday it would pause in-person instruction for the 2023-2024 academic year, affecting 20 students, as it vacates its property in June. McBride Homes is under contract to buy the Barat property, 17815 Wild Horse Creek Road, from owner Midland States Bank, according to a person familiar with the matter, as it plans a subdivision. McBride, along with another school, St. Austin School, previously expressed interest in the property. Barat has struggled…

Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski will study the proposals and announce a final decision by May 28.