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Transgender health, foreign ownership of farmland, and the threshold for constitutional amendments are some of the major legislation Missouri lawmakers could address as they head into the last week of the regular legislative session.

Police identified the victim as 23-year-old Dominic Meriwether.

On May 8, 1900, streetcar workers voted to strike against the St. Louis Transit Co. When the strike ended four months later, 14 people had been killed. It would take 18 years and another strike for streetcar workers to win…

Microsoft has apparently realized that it’s just good business sense to get itself on the right side of history, and the right side of the growing “right to repair movement.” The company has increasingly been urging lawmakers to support the Washington State Fair Repair Act, which would ensure that consumers and indie repair shops have […]

Zoom Room, an indoor dog training gym, will open its first St. Louis-area location Saturday, May 13.

COLLINSVILLE - Edwardsville boys track sophomore thrower Iose Epenesa is having another stellar season in both the shot put and discus throw events and did exceptionally well at the Collinsville Invitational meet, the final big meet before the postseason, on May 6 at Kahok Stadium. Epenesa finished third in the shot put with a throw of 15.74 meters (51 feet, seven-and-three-quarters inches) and came in second in the discus, getting off a toss of 53.21 meters (174 feet, seven inches) in helping the Tigers nip East St. Louis 93-92 to win the team championship at the meet. Earlier in the season, Epenesa had a throw in the discus that was the longest in Class 3A in the state, a mark that has since been eclipsed, and on Saturday, had good feelings about how the day was going to go. Epenesa is an Edwardsville High School Boys Athlete of the Month for his track and field efforts this season. "I'm feeling pretty good," Epenesa said during an interview before the end of the meet. "I was just

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ALTON - Alton Police and Alton Fire Departments had a busy Saturday with multiple wreck calls. One crash called in at 10:42 p.m. on Saturday resulted in a man being taken to the hospital after losing control of his vehicle. The motorist’s vehicle left the roadway and crossed the road over the front ramp of the Alton Fire Station on College Avenue, then ended up clipping a tree and crushed an air conditioner against a house in the 3200 block of College. “The person hit two or three trees in the process of the crash before he hit the air conditioner at the house,” Alton Battalion Chief Tom House said in a Saturday report. Another two-car accident left moderate to heavy damage to two vehicles. “We had two to three different wrecks in Alton yesterday in different places,” House said. “It was a busy day Saturday.”

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One person was struck by a Metro bus Sunday night.

GKN Aerospace said by the end of this year it would shut down its plant that makes aircraft parts for The Boeing Co. and other manufacturers.

A fire overnight destroyed a vacant house on Romaine Place Near Hamilton Avenue.

The bonds will help facilitate a sales tax exemption on construction materials for the project.

The veterans of World War I who created the American Legion first met on American soil in a theater downtown on May 8, 1919.

Monday morning, storms are ongoing east of the Mississippi River, with spots of rain back west into metro St. Louis. The heaviest rain now is along the Kaskaskia River, but the NWS has issued an urban and small stream flood advisory for parts of Montgomery and Fayette Counties, northeast of St. Louis, where 1to 3 inches of rain has fallen overnight.  

Three people were injured in three separate shootings over the weekend.

In the Central West End, Ronke Faleti has created a place where women can socialize or find solace, work remotely or relax.

Missouri lawmakers must adjourn for the year at 6 p.m. on Friday, leaving just five days to complete work on some of the highest-profile — and controversial — items on the GOP supermajority’s agenda.  And while the last two legislative sessions were defined in their final week by the simmering tension between Republicans in the […]

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ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal officials are looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology Sunday as they work to discern a motive for the attack, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official cautioned the investigation is in its early [...]

Retired Missouri employee Rick Dahl draws over $467,000 a year from his state government pension. How did he end up drawing such a generous guaranteed lifetime benefit? Dahl served as the chief investment officer of the Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System, also known as MOSERS, from 1995 until 2016. MOSERS retirees receive pensions based on […]

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Federal investigators found that Alabama neglected a Black community's sewage and sanitation needs — then punished them for the results.