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But efforts to outlaw public drag performances in Missouri appear less likely to advance.

The city could be forced, if a recent court ruling stands, to refund between $25 million and $50 million per year in earnings taxes charged to nonresidents who started working from home during the pandemic, according to the St. Louis…

ST. LOUIS COUNTY - On January 24, 2023, the St. Louis County Police Department’s Burglary Unit in joint operation with St. Louis Metropolitan Police detectives and City of Normandy detectives conducted an investigation of a string of business burglaries that occurred on December 6, 2022, where a stolen white Hyundai Sonata from Calverton Park was used in conjunction with these burglaries. The detectives arrested two male juveniles (both 16 years of age) from the 4100 block of N. Newstead Avenue where detectives recovered five firearms to include a Glock handgun (pictured) that was stolen from Denny Dennis Sporting Goods on September 16, 2022. The two juveniles were charged with Burglary and Stealing from the following locations and held at Family Court: All incidents occurred on 12/6/2022 7498 Delmar Boulevard - Shell Gas Station 8835 Natural Bridge - Shell Gas Station 11208 West Florissant - Neat Restaurant and Bar 3675 Dunn Road - Conoco gas station

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The leader of Missouri's state Senate on Thursday said Republican senators are unified against letting transgender girls play on girls' sports teams.

BETHALTO - Mark Cassidy, a Bethalto resident and U.S. Navy veteran with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is in need of assistance from a caretaker as his disease progresses. His current Medical Assistant, Amy King, is seeking applicants to help her assist Cassidy with day-to-day functions. Cassidy said veterans are twice as likely to get ALS, regardless of their branch or position. “About 5,000 people a year are diagnosed with ALS in the United States, and for some reason, veterans are twice as likely to get ALS as non-veterans,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what branch of the service they were in, whether or not they saw combat duty, had a desk job … it doesn’t matter, veterans are twice as likely. “ The Association , after finding out this oddity about us being twice as likely to get it, they made the determination that there must be some connection between our service and ALS.” During his time in the Navy, Cassidy

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A former St. Louis County employee was sentenced Thursday for running a scheme to steal federal pandemic relief funds.

PIASA - MaCaylin Day is a strong athlete in multiple sports for the Southwestern High School Piasa Birds. For the 2022-2023 girls' basketball season, Day is the Southwestern leading scorer. She also is a standout in girls' soccer, an outside hitter in volleyball, and will be counted on heavily in the spring by the Piasa Birds. MaCaylin's goal is to play college soccer. Southwestern had a strong girls' soccer team last season. MaCaylin is an Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for the Piasa Birds. MaCaylin has even spent some time in cross-country in her Southwestern career. The Piasa Birds’ athlete said one of the key things she has learned from sports participation is that "if you want something, you have to work for it." Southwestern head girls basketball coach Darren Mosley said MaCaylin always “plays hard.” “She is not only our leading scorer, but she always has the assignment of guarding the other team’s best

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A St. Louis-based startup company is moving into new office space converted from a vacant factory, a move it said will allow it to continue to grow and add employees over the next year.

Each week, we bring you our picks for the best concerts of the next seven days! To submit your show for consideration, click here.

St. Charles Republican wants to take local control of police away from the citizens of St. Louis.

I got some pushback on Twitter about my comment yesterday that ChatGPT would replace most lawyers in a few years time. My reply: "I wonder how long it will be until a computer is able to pass the bar exam?" Today I sort of get an answer: How well can AI models write law school ...continue reading "ChatGPT goes to law school"

Cool Valley mayor "retires from politics" via email, but impeachment hearing proceeds without him.

A Missouri House committee approved four versions of proposals to overhaul the initiative petition process Thursday on party-line votes, despite warnings of well-funded opposition if lawmakers put one on the ballot. The differences among the competing proposals were enough that House Elections Committee Chairwoman Peggy McGaugh, R-Carrollton, said she didn’t feel comfortable combining them. “I […]

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Oscar Nominations are out; we go over the surprises and the snubs!

The Lemps may be St. Louis' second-most famous beer brewing family, but they are way more haunted than their A-B counterparts. The Lemp family was once one of the most prosperous in town, but when they moved into a mansion in the Benton Park neighborhood in the 1860s, paranormal misfortune befell them.

Charges were filed today in St. Louis Circuit Court against an 18-year-old whom police say was one of three individuals in a stolen car that was involved in a collision in Downtown West yesterday. Today, prosecutors charged Cameron Brown with two counts of tampering with a motor vehicle and one count of resisting arrest. SLMPD Major Janice Bockstruck said yesterday that police and federal authorities had formed a joint task force to investigate the recent spree of carjackings in St. Louis.

A former St. Louis County jail official was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for engaging in a pandemic relief kickback scheme.

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