A local fire department is conducting an internal investigation after a man's body was found by family members two days after a fire, despite initial search efforts by first responders.
You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of promises about how they were somehow going to revolutionize U.S. media. In reality most of their promises were relatively inane, and it didn’t take long before the outlet […]
Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]
Police are investigating a break-in at La Taco Cantina in Maryland Heights, where robbers stole money and merchandise and caused extensive damage to the restaurant.
Those cases mostly involved city officers firing their guns, and they range in date from September 2022 to May 2024. Three of those incidents were fatal.
For Scarlett Loomas of Sikeston, the logistics of obtaining day care for her children were half the battle. She would drive southeast for 30 minutes each morning to East Prairie in Mississippi County to drop her kids off at child care. Then she would drive another 40 minutes farther south to work in Portageville in […]
In rapid succession this year, the Washington Post laid off half its newsroom, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution cut 15% of its staff and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced it would close in May. What’s perhaps most alarming is that the collapse of major newspapers no longer arrives as a civic emergency. It’s become routine. Journalism is the […]
Missouri and Illinois are kicking off "Severe Weather Preparedness Week" to encourage residents to prepare for the upcoming storm season, following a year of 16 tornado-related deaths in Missouri, the highest total in 14 years.
In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years — and so has the cost of containing it. The cost of contact tracing and surveillance, traveling each day to patients’ homes to ensure they take their meds or booking hotel rooms to quarantine patients, has surged from $17,000 in 2020 to […]
More than 1,600 plants and animals are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. And out of all of those, only one is a moss.
St. Louis Public Radio’s Kate Grumke reports on a new effort to protect these tiny plants that are often overlooked, but are very important.
ST. LOUIS - The Winter Weather Advisory has been canceled as temperatures have been hovering between 34 and 36 F overnight. Overnight precipitation has mostly been rain, with some sleet pellets and snowflakes mixing in here or there. So roads will be wet for the morning drive. Cloudy skies Monday with high temperatures in the [...]
The Black Crowes just received their second nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and guitarist and founding member Rich Robinson tells ABC Audio he feels honored to be…