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In April of 1967, at the Riverside Church in New York City, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr spoke in profound grief about the way his position on the Vietnam War was interrogated even by some of his closest supporters. “I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have […]

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Unpredictability of shipping, labor and the coronavirus leave business owners guessing about when products might arrive and how much they’ll cost.

Just days after Judas Priest announced that they would be moving forward as a four-piece live outfit without touring guitarist Andy Sneap, the heavy-metal legends apparently have changed their minds…

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John Mellencamp's latest studio album, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, gets its release this Friday, January 21, and the lauded singer/songwriter shares some details about the project in a new interview…

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I have no memories of ever wanting to be a historian.*  Just happened. I have been interested in old houses for as long as I can remember.  Mostly I never gave a thought to who built them or the families that lived there. I toured a lot of historic buildings and listened to the guides’ […]

Only one in 10,000 active ingredients created by researchers in a lab is turned into a potential drug. But pharmaceutical research is not only expensive and time-consuming, it’s also a process liable to lead to a dead end. How do drugs make the long journey from lab to market? Even today, only a handful of vaccines against the coronavirus have been developed and made available to people in many countries around the globe, so the threat of Covid-19 remains. There is still no effective treatment…

The settlement money came through just before Christmas. It’s now sitting in a trust account until St. Louis-area leaders decide how to spend it.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The current surge in virus cases in Missouri driven by the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant is straining hospital capacity and making it difficult …

In the city of St. Louis, more people have died from overdoses than COVID-19.