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Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Party is returning to St. Charles. The Family Arena has a buy one, get one deal for tickets.

Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted a St. Charles County man for allegedly selling firearms without a license.

Police stopped a group of at least five people from breaking into cars Wednesday evening around Downtown St. Louis. Two 18-year-olds are behind bars after the thwarted break-ins.

According to the Wall Street Journal, same-sex couples account for 1% of all households nationwide. Of that, half are married and a little less than half are unmarried partners. The remainder live alone or in other arrangements.

The man was shot in the head around 11 a.m. in the 4800 block of Margaretta Avenue and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Grant Guirl was intoxicated and driving 57 mph in a 30 mph zone in Kirkwood when he drove into motorcyclist Thomas Hunter.

The recount of a Bel-Nor Board of Aldermen race ended in a tie last week, prompting a run-off election scheduled for August.

Cardinal Blase Cupich expressed surprise that the 125 new cases involved some priests he had never heard of.

Missouri’s nursing homes for military veterans are less than two-thirds full.

A man was found shot to death at around 11 a.m. in the 4800 block of Magaretta Avenue.

It's no exaggeration to say the Whitaker Music Festival is one of St. Louis' great summer traditions. Shaw residents may curse the crush of traffic for these free Wednesday concerts, but we happen to know people who've met their future spouse at one, people who brought kids who've now grown up to bring their kids, and more.

The 47,500 square foot facility is expected to be operational in 2025 and will be operated by Phantom Works, the name of Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s proprietary research, development and prototyping division. A Boeing spokesperson said the building will be "secure for proprietary/classified work so we are not disclosing the work we will be doing."

WASHINGTON — U.S. House members walked down the steps of the Capitol building Thursday morning to head back to their districts for a Memorial Day recess that began exactly one week before the country could default on the debt. House Democrats took to the floor after the final vote of the week to give a […]

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Thursday 05/25 So Smooth If you haven't been to a Twilight Thursday (or the previous iteration, Twilight Tuesday) event at the Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Boulevard, 314-746-4599), you're missing out.

The American economy is in very squirrely shape right now. I have two things to show you that demonstrate how weird things are. First, you may recall that there are two basic measures of economic growth: GDP and GDI. They are theoretically identical, but in practice they diverge—sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. For that ...continue reading "The US economy is a riddle wrapped in an enigma"

A robbery/kidnapping case allegedly implicating business owner and immigrant Evgeni Kopankov has resulted in the government losing the evidence it took it oh so long to obtain. And the government has only itself to blame for how this went down. Kopankov was arrested in 2019 for his supposed involvement in a conspiracy to rob (and, […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Energizer Holdings, looking to halve its office space amid a shift in U.S. work habits, is negotiating for a new headquarters in Clayton. The company wants to downsize from the roughly 100,000 square feet it leases off Interstate 64 and Highway 141 in Town and Country — where it has operated […]