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Lawmakers are back in Jefferson City Wednesday to meet their constitutional requirement of a veto session.

We’ve noted a few times how the political push to ban TikTok is a dumb performance largely designed to distract people from our failure to pass even a basic internet privacy law or regulate data brokers. We’ve also noted how college bans of TikTok are a dumb extension of that dumb performance, and don’t accomplish anything of meaningful […]

Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced Judge Kelly Broniec as his choice to fill an open seat on the Missouri Supreme Court. Broniec, 52, currently serves as chief judge of the Missouri’s Eastern District Court of Appeals in St. Louis. She will fill the vacancy left by Judge George W. Draper III, who retired earlier this month. With Broniec’s appointment, women now make up four of the seven seats on the court. It’s the second time Parson has gotten to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. In 2021,…

Logan Ely says that both of his current restaurant concepts were “born in a weird time," as The Lucky Accomplice, at 2501 S. Jefferson Ave., opened in fall 2020, and Press, at 2509 S. Jefferson Ave., on the same block in the city’s Fox Park neighborhood, opened in spring 2022.

A two-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 is causing major backups Wednesday morning.

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. If you are like most people, you take pride in your name or maybe never give it much thought.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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The infant's condition is not immediately known on Tuesday evening.

More than 20% of Missouri's students were chronically absent last year, defined as missing at least one in 10 days of school.

Most people in the St. Louis area pronounce the name of the small Metro East village of Sauget incorrectly. It's one of many French names St. Louisans may botch.

Starting next Monday, Illinois will be the first state to eliminate cash-bail as a condition of pretrial release.

The effort is spearheaded by the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.

The third Construction Career Expo is happening Wednesday.

The Gary Sinise Foundation is raising money for a Manchester Police Department veteran officer.

New details have emerged about a shooting that happened in north St. Louis County early Wednesday morning.

WASHINGTON — The development of artificial intelligence presents far-reaching challenges for virtually every aspect of modern society, including campaigns, national security and journalism, members of a U.S. Senate panel said at a Tuesday hearing. Technology experts invited to testify at a hearing of the Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security Subcommittee of the Senate […]

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Bradley S. Jenkins was sentenced to probation after his wife fell to her death from a parking garage near Busch Stadium in 2019.

“Neither Bill Eigel nor his BILL PAC have anything to do with President Trump or his campaign,” says Trump campaign lawyer David Warrington.

Some local police departments may have used a hacked computer information network.

Sugaree (1242 Tamm Avenue, sugareebaking.com), the beloved Dogtown purveyors of pies, cakes and all things sweet, is back. The bakery announced it had reopened for online orders yesterday on Instagram. "Sugareebaking.com is live!!!!