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Back-to-school shopping is your first indication that summer is ending soon. Once you start seeing everybody's first-day-of-school pictures, it gets a little more real.

A local mom is suing her son's daycare center after an incident with a bottle warmer left the boy seriously burned. Tiara Cornell is suing the owner of Kids Biz Preparatory, a licensed childcare center in Hazelwood.  She says her then 18-month-old son, who is being identified only by his initials, JC, was "negligently supervised" while at the center in May 2019 — and that a hot bottle warmer was left "unguarded" and his proximity. When he pulled on the cord, scalding water poured onto his arm.

If you earn less than $55,000 a year and work more than 40 hours a week, you could be eligible for time and a half.

Cementland: Bob Cassilly’s Unfinished Masterpiece will show at the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library until Sept. 22.   The photography exhibit by Richard Sprengeler showcases the last project […]

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The work of world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly is coming to the Missouri Botanical Garden in a stunning exhibition uniting art and nature. With thousands of pieces of blown glass forms […]

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A two-day binational conference began on Wednesday with leaders from the United States and Mexico earmarking future projects to spur economic development on the border, and trying to solve a water crisis that is plaguing both countries.

Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting Inspiration and Expression, The Art of MaryJo Clark.   The exhibit includes collage, […]

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Some restaurant owners are attempting to expand their hours to back to pre-pandemic levels.

Music lovers are coming from all across the region to attend this year's 'Music at The Intersection' Festival, but this year there's a connected event for anyone interested in the music industry.

ST. LOUIS -- A campaign to prevent drunk driving through ride-sharing apps is expanding to college campuses nationwide before football season. Anheuser-Busch, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Uber launched the Decide to Ride campaign in 2021. Nearly 12,000 people have used Uber ride-share discount codes to get home safely. “Football season is a time for [...]

Congratulations, Ebbi Nicole, founder & chief FLUFFtivist, Fluffy GRL Movement! Nicole will be honored as a St. Louis young leader at the St. Louis American Foundation’s twelfth annual Salute to Young Leaders Networking Awards Reception, presented by Midwest BankCentre, 5:30…

The brewery partnered with Hi-Pointe Drive-In at the 10,000-square-foot complex.

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to shut down Torch Electronics, owner of thousands of video games offering cash prizes in retail locations throughout Missouri. U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes, in a decision issued last week, decided that the seven plaintiffs lacked standing under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations […]

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We’ve long noted how 5G wireless is more of an evolution than a revolution. Yes, it results in faster, better networks, but it’s not a technology that’s truly transformative. Knowing this, the wireless industry spent years coming up with all kinds of outlandish claims about how 5G can cure cancer or solve climate change in […]

A family-owned restaurant that has operated in St. Louis' Mount Pleasant neighborhood for over 40 years plans to close its doors within weeks.

TOPEKA, Kansas — Police Chief Gideon Cody arrived at the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter who had questioned him about alleged misconduct at his previous job. As Gruver read the search warrant, she told Cody she needed to call her publisher and editor, Eric […]

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A federal rule limiting agencies’ power to regulate water pollution will severely restrict protections for waters and wetlands throughout the country, but could also be subject to challenges from conservative groups that maintain the new rule exerts more federal jurisdiction than the U.S. Supreme Court intended in a May decision. With the rule published Tuesday to redefine […]

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In Missouri, state workers are handling renewals manually, often causing the process to extend into another month.

Delta Extraction did not have grounds to challenge the recall because it has not exhausted the administrative appeal process, a judge ruled.

In his four-year term, he got the City Council to eliminate auto and pet license fees and to plan for spending and saving of gambling revenue from the city’s casino.