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Circuit Judge David L. Vincent III accepted Melford Newlon's guilty pleas in the September 2016 killing of 71-year-old Steven White in Jennings.

The project has been in negotiations with the alderman and mayor’s office for months.

Sam Page's challenger for St. Louis County executive made a strong financial showing in the most recent quarter, but Page still has more cash for the race.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Tuesday released security video from a gas station showing one of the suspects of five crimes over three days.

Gateway Studios is building a $130 million music production facility in Chesterfield

Missouri is continuing to see record daily coronavirus infections, near-peak COVID-19 caseloads in hospitals and threats from Attorney General Eric Schmitt that he will sue school districts that require masks or send students home when they are infected or exposed to the virus. In a statement issued Tuesday morning, Schmitt said school mask rules and […]

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The Nathaniel Reid Bakery worker said he was walking from the nearby North Kirkwood Middle School parking lot when three men pointed guns at him.

The Missouri House overwhelmingly rejected efforts Tuesday to draw a Congressional map that would have reconfigured a Democratic seat in Kansas City in the GOP’s favor, and instead gave initial approval to a map that maintains the current party divisions. By a vote of 84 to 60, House members gave initial approval to a map […]

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Dr. Lauren Mitchell and Dr. Jennifer Allen explain why they’ve joined estimated 30-plus Missouri physicians by establishing clinics outside the insurance-based system. Direct primary care clinics charge monthly fees, but doctors say they are overall more affordable and more flexible for patients.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (130 Edgar Rd, Webster Groves; 314-968-4925) joins the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Saint Louis Science Center and the Missouri History Museum in rearranging its schedule as a result of COVID-19.

In a press release sent out today, the Rep said it is temporarily closing curtains on its productions and adjusting the remaining programming of its season “in response to the rising COVID-19 rates in the St. Louis community.”

An email from the Rep’s Box Office said this:

“Our primary focus during this public health crisis remains the safety and well-being of our artists, staff and audiences.…

Christian Hospital announced Dr. Olaronke Akintola-Ogunremi, or just Dr. Akintola as she is known at the hospital, was elected chief of the medical staff for 2022, effective Jan. 1.

On Monday, 145 COVID-positive people were admitted, down from 200+ last week. Task force leaders have said 40 admissions per day represented a "red line" of concern.

Five new restaurants ranging from late-night hot spots to coffee shops get Sauce Magazine's nod this January.

Vernon Mitchell Jr. said it would have been "easy to be cynical about politics in general," but he pursued a job doing equity and inclusion work with the city of St. Louis anyway. "I do think this is an opportunity to create something sustainable that allows the city — and all the people who live in the city and the surrounding region — to benefit from policies that will include everyone," he said.

The developer's new office, a $14 million renovation of a former industrial warehouse within the larger mixed-use development, opened Jan. 12.

Jackie Matthews admitted that the handcuffed man was not a threat when he struck him in the face.

Completing his years-long metamorphosis to political cockroach, St. Louis police union spokesman Jeff Roorda is joining the Republican Party and launching a campaign for a 2022 state Senate seat in Jefferson County.

Making the announcement in Tuesday in an interview with FM NewsTalk 97.1's Marc Cox, Roorda declared his candidacy while touting his record of "standing up for law and order and a safe community" — even though Roorda's history suggests his principles have less to do with community needs and more with making sure police officers can do whatever they want without consequences.…