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The budget cut proposal comes after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued to overturn new Missouri law banning certain "explicit" library books.

The Grove has just become a little less delicious: BEAST Butcher & Block in the Grove (4156 Manchester Avenue) closed for daily operations on March 26. The restaurant will fulfill all obligations made for April, St. Louis Magazine reported yesterday.

Queen + Adam Lambert have added more dates to their North American Rhapsody Tour. The band has added eight new dates “due to overwhelming fan demand,” including second shows in Baltimore,…

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Mary Anne Curtis, 30, was facing child endangerment charges in St. Louis City last year, when she was connected to three child deaths. At one point, she was allowed out on bond, leading to what authorities now say is a fourth child death in St. Louis County.

Letter to the Editor: WOOD RIVER: Wood River is headed in the wrong direction. It will take the “Right Two” to turn Wood River around. Voters clearly said they did not want a Rec Center. The cost is now $12,000,000 and we may not have the revenues to cover the cost of up to $1,000,000 a year to pay for it. Voters have been ignored. Cheryl Maguire, the “Rec”-less 3, and their supporters refuse to listen and want to continue to impose their will on Wood River. Voters have endured never-ending fees and tax increases. The City Council has failed to provide the proper oversight, the “checks and balances”, of city management and failed to enforce city ordinances which has resulted in waste and higher costs to taxpayers. Voters have suffered from declining population and stagnant property values. The City Council continues to enact policies that drain our resources and make Wood River unattractive for young families to consider as a place to live. Dav

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The St. Louis regions faces various severe weather threats Friday, with thunderstorms, large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes all possible, into the evening.

Thirty-three years ago, serial murderer Gary Muehlberg discarded 18-year-old Robyn Mihan’s dead body along a stretch of rural Highway E in Lincoln County. Muehlberg abducted Mihan from the Southside Stroll in St. Louis on Thursday, March 22, 1990, before murdering her in his home in Bel-Ridge. That Monday, he tied her lifeless body between two mattresses and in the early morning hours left her along the roadside to be found by a commuter.

Last year, people everywhere fell in love with local star mixologist Meredith Barry. In town, many already know Barry for the cocktails she whips up at the bar she co-owns, Platypus. But even those who have never sipped one of her drinks soon found themselves enchanted when Barry competed on Netflix's Drink Masters.

Planned Parenthood argues in its lawsuit that its clinic has nothing to do with the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Tornado warnings were issued for isolated areas of Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois on Friday afternoon.

What’s next for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner? Has attorney Al Watkins played himself into a lawsuit? What happens to Missouri’s gun laws now that a federal judge has ruled the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act is unconstitutional? The Legal Roundtable tackles those cases, and more, with attorneys Eric Banks, Nicole Gorovsky and Mary Anne Sedey.

In recent years, major media organizations have been lobbying Congress to enact legislation, the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,” requiring search engine providers to engage in a form of collective bargaining about the tax they would pay to media publishers for the privilege of providing links to their news articles, backed up by mandatory interest arbitration in which […]

A fast-casual restaurant, West Bank Street Eats serves great beef and chicken shawarma as well as hummus, baba ganoush and gyros.

If you think you’ve been hearing a lot of Fleetwood Mac songs on TV lately, you aren’t imagining things. AdAge reports that since the beginning of 2022, music by the Rock & Roll Hall…

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EDWARDSVILLE – The Illinois Department of Transportation announces an Illinois route near Edwardsville main street with high traffic flow will be closed for part of this coming week. Illinois Route 159 will be closed to all traffic from Illinois 143/Old Alton Road, over the Mooney Creek and Cahokia Creek structures, to 3,000’ south of Roman Hills Road beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, April 3, through 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 5. Illinois Route 159 will remain open to traffic from Roman Hills Road to Illinois Route 140. A marked detour will be in place utilizing Illinois Route 143, Route 255, and Illinois 140. "This closure is to complete final pavement repairs due to a previous slope failure in this area," IDOT said. "Work is being completed by Keller Construction." To avoid the work area, when feasible, use of alternate routes should be considered. Drivers are urged to pay close attention to changed conditions and signs in the work zones, obey the posted speed limits, refrain

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St. Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer has an $88,000 to $12,000 fundraising advantage over City Councilman Tom Besselman, his opponent in Tuesday's election.