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Three people are dead and two seriously injured after a Sunday morning crash in Lincoln County.

The western monarch butterfly has been struggling, but the population is showing signs of improvement. It's a sign conservation efforts are helping.

A manufacturing facility in Chicago Heights was destroyed in a massive fire Monday morning.

The Fairview Heights Police Department is still piecing together the events of Saturday night, when they were called around 10:30 for multiple fights at a Sky Zone trampoline park.

Immigration stories told in the United States often center around people and families planting roots in the U.S. “This Is Not My Home” tells a different immigration story — that of someone emigrating from the U.S. — from a point of view that is often ignored, a child’s perspective. Author and illustrator duo Eugenia Yoh and Vivienne Chang share the inspiration behind the main character, Lily, and how their friends’ experiences moving from the U.S. to Taiwan inspired them to write a children’s book.

A community is in mourning after three Lincoln County High School students were killed in a crash early Sunday morning. Two others survived the wreck but are injured.

St. Louis’ best theater performances and productions of the year are being honored once again. St. Louis Theater Circle announced its award nominations Monday, covering approximately 90 shows from 2022. Calvin Wilson, theater critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Lynn Venhaus, writer and reviewer for PopLifeStL.com, discuss the nominations, and their observations on the state of St. Louis theater amidst its recovery from pandemic interruptions. Among the biggest nomination-getters of 2022 were the productions of “In the Heights,” from STAGES St. Louis, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Brontë Sister House Party” from SATE.

New guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics says physicians should be more proactive when it comes to treating childhood obesity.

If you’re not familiar with Dwarf Fortress, you’ve missed out on a legendary story about a labor of love. The game, a minimalist experience in which you are managing a colony of dwarves as they live their lives and conduct their dwarf-y business, was created by two brothers sixteen years ago. It’s an incredibly deep […]

Missouri greenlit several dispensaries to sell recreational cannabis last Friday. St. Louis Public Radio’s Metro East reporter Will Bauer shares what he heard from customers on that first day of recreational sales, the tax breakdown on both sides of the Mississippi River, and how Missouri and Illinois may be competing for consumers.

A funeral for the late guitarist Jeff Beck was held Friday in London with several A-list stars in attendance, including Rod Stewart, Johnny Depp and Jimmy Page. Metro UK reports Stewart paid his respects to Beck with…

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A South Roxana, Illinois, man could spend the rest of his life in prison after being accused of sexually assaulting children for the past several years.

Jontu and Zachary, both western lowland gorillas, recently swapped homes for the conservation and survival of their species.

The Missouri Senate approved a bill Monday that would allow state agencies to waive regulations they believe are hindering certain businesses. The bill, which has raised fears among environmental advocates that it could undermine health and safety regulations, now heads to the Missouri House, which is already working on its own version.  Missouri legislators have […]

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St. Louis County hired the Animal Protective Association of Missouri to take over its animal shelter operations. Within two months, adoptions increased by more than three-fold.

The balloon is the latest shiny object in our national discourse, and I'm weary of shiny objects. Still, I have to admit that the Pentagon is doing its best to keep balloon mania going. Here they are following up on their previous admission that balloons had flown over the US during the Trump administration: “Every ...continue reading "The Pentagon needs to put up or shut up about the balloon(s)"