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O'Fallon, Missouri, resident Valerie L. Wescott, 54, died at the scene of the crash. A 16-year-old girl also from O'Fallon was hurt.

Minutes apart, both shootings happened around 12:30 a.m. Police are investigating both as homicides.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY — An O’Fallon, Missouri, woman died Friday after a traffic crach on Interstate 70 in St. Louis County.

The Redding Rancheria, a group of three California Indian tribes, operates a casino on Highway 273 near Redding. They want to relocate and build a bigger casino a few miles south along Interstate 5, a project they've been working on for nearly 20 years: But the proposal has been buffeted by influential opponents, including the ...continue reading "“Hallowed ground” pops up to halt another development"

Aaqil Royal, 21, was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for the two counts of hindering prosecution of a felony that he had faced in St. Louis County Circuit Court.

Police found Stephen Robinson, 32, shot multiple times, at 12:38 a.m. in his kitchen in the 4300 block of Beck Avenue.

Sunday marks a big milestone in St. Louis soccer history: The first MLS playoff game in the inaugural season of St. Louis CITY SC.

Conor Sen suggests that lots of people view the economy poorly because interest rates have gone up for things like credit card debt and car payments: Food and energy as a % of disposable personal income is around where it was in the mid-2010’s. Personal interest payments as a % of income are skyrocketing: pic.twitter.com/LpVZMMUTIg ...continue reading "Are Americans unhappy with the economy because of high interest rates?"

Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the broadband industry sued Vermont over consumer protections and net neutrality, while a few states got into the broadband fight on the side of the FCC, and we noted how perfect the coordination was between the agency and telecom lobbyists. Another report showed that FOSTA increased sex trafficking, […]

A man was sentenced to four years in prison for aiding teenagers during an escape at the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center last year.

I caught some of Bill Maher's show last night, and midway through he began a rant about bureaucrats making it harder and harder to build anything. These "petty tyrants," he said, are constantly coming up with new rules that force you to jump through ever more hoops to get anything done. Maher is wrong to ...continue reading "Raw data: Construction over the past 50+ years"

A man admitted to supplying fentanyl that killed a teenager last year in Jefferson County.

Is our economy doing better or worse? See recent changes in local employment, regional inflation and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.

Get ready for an enchanting adventure in the land of Oz. A new pop-up bar experience for two months in St. Louis. 

Christopher Lee Simmons has been incarcerated at the Northeast Correctional Center since 1994. Originally sentenced to death, on August 26, 2003, he was re-sentenced to life without parole.