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Iron County's 1860s jail will get renovated. Another $1.1 million will help St. Louis upgrade the City Justice Center downtown after "decades of neglect," city officials said.

The Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) said Monday that City SC’s 22,500-seat Downtown West CityPark stadium has been chosen as one of 15 host venues for the Concacaf Gold Cup tournament.

Four branches of the St. Charles City-County Library will close on Sundays starting April 30.

Chesterfield-based agriculture giant Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) said Monday it is acquiring a Louisiana refinery through its Bunge Loders Croklaan joint venture, with plans to use the facility to expand its oils business.

St. Louis-based heath care startup Rezilient, which provides concierge primary care through its technology-focused health care clinics, has brought on new investor Govo Venture Partners as it pursues expansion.

BJC HealthCare said Monday it will distribute gun locks at 20 more of its facilities, a move that comes in response to what it described as record shootings of children.

Beast Butcher & Block, located at 4156 Manchester Ave. in The Grove, has closed.

BETHALTO – Area Flight Instructors Don Hill and John Harding invite those interested in flying to the PIASA FLYERS Aero Club meeting at the St. Louis Regional Airport at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Airport Managers Building just south of the tower. The meetings run from 6 to 8 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the St. Louis Regional Airport Managers Building just south of the tower. "Come one, come all," Hill said. "This coming Wednesday evening, April 12, will go down in history as the official forming of the PIASA FLYERS with the Aero Club’s election of officers. "The PIASA FLYERS name was voted in by a majority of the incoming members at their last meeting March 9, and was so named after the legendary flying dragon of the local area Piasa Hills. Now, the PIASA FLYERS look forward to making their own legend on into the future." Hill said more than 40 attendees were at the March 9 meeting and about half were pilots without airplanes who were looking for

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On Saturday I was up in LA on a variety of errands. My last stop was the Westlake/MacArthur station near MacArthur Park, where I wanted to check out the blaring classical music being played to keep the bums out. Was it really loud enough to count as torture? Two caveats. First, MTA might have turned ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

The guitar Eddie Van Halen played in Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" video is going up for auction. Created specifically for Eddie by Paul Unkert of Kramer Guitars, the "Hot…

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Never a dull moment in Elonland. Last week, as you’ll recall, he decided that NPR should be labeled as “state-affiliated media” even though NPR was literally Twitter’s prime example of what kinds of independent media outlets don’t deserve that label. What seemed to have happened is that some of the weird coterie of foolish people […]

A male bald eagle at the World Bird Sanctuary that went viral for trying to "hatch" a rock has been introduced to an eaglet at the facility, with hopes his parental instincts will transfer to the fledgling.

An index of St. Louis-area stocks was up 3% over the first three months of this year, but lagged behind two national indices.

GODFREY - The Freer family is preparing for its annual Christmas In July Sloppy Joes event set for 10:30 to 1:30 p.m. on July 21 at Freer Auto Body in Godfrey and is seeking prizes, organizer Margaret Freer said today. Proceeds from the event each year benefit the Community Christmas campaign in the Alton area. Margaret said her granddaughters - Taylor and Lily - are looking for raffle prizes. "Any house, condo, or timeshare would be great that could be used as a raffle prize," she said. "It is always a mutually agreed date. "A tax letter will be given as it is a non-profit and tax deductible." Margaret said please call 618-466-6151 if you would be willing to help with this great event. Last year's event was a huge success and a total of $56,000 was raised. Margaret and her granddaughters co-founded this significant charitable event. All proceeds raised benefit Community Christmas and provide a huge boost each year to the campaign.

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Today on TAP: The Florida governor has peaked too soon and has nowhere to go but down.