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The school board will select its next superintendent from among the three finalists on Jan. 31.

ST. LOUIS - Police found a handgun with an illegal modification that was turned into a fully-automatic weapon Sunday. The teens caught with the firearms are accused of breaking into vehicles at The Foundry in Midtown, St. Louis. A drive-by shooting happened while police were investigating the break-ins, and multiple vehicles were damaged. St. Louis [...]

A shooting in the Los Angeles-area stirred fears in the Asian-American community. Here are resources and ways to help.

It’s January in the Midwest so it’s not entirely unexpected that there is snow in the forecast this week. Just how much snow we’re going to get, though, is a matter that always seems to be up for debate with local meteorologists. As of right now (which is midday on Monday), the National Weather Service in St. Louis is saying that the St. Louis area should expect between 3 to 6 inches of snow dropping from late Tuesday into early Wednesday.

Here's an incarceration chart from my buddy Rick Nevin: It looks like incarceration rates went down in both 2020 and 2021, and indeed they did. Between 2019 and 2021 the prison incarceration rate for ages 18-19 declined from 1.07% to 0.84% to 0.55%. For the entire age cohort of 18-24 year-olds, prison incarceration rates went ...continue reading "Incarceration rates for the young continue to drop hard and fast"

GRANITE CITY - A “Paranormal Valentine’s Experience” is coming to the Old Six Mile Museum in Granite City, which will feature a presentation from paranormal investigators, a catered dinner, and a murder mystery game set in the 1920s Jazz Age. The event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 4 starting at 1 p.m. at the Old Six Mile Museum, located at 3279 Maryville Road in Granite City. The cost of attendance is $25 per person, which includes a catered dinner, hors d'oeuvres, spirits (attendees must be 21 or over), and desserts. Alcoholic beverages won’t be the only spirits highlighted at the event, as attendees will also see and hear evidence of the museum’s ghostly inhabitants. “We discuss the paranormal events at the museum, and we hear from the paranormal team that actually came in and researched all of them and discovered the reasons for all the weird things that were happening,” Agles-Kempfer said. “Then we’re going to do a murder

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PONTOON BEACH - On Sunday, February 5, Madison County Transit (MCT) is implementing its winter service change. Thanks to aggressive recruitment efforts by Agency for Community Transit (ACT), and changes to the composition of driver rosters, MCT was able to forego the reductions that were previously proposed due to the labor shortage, and even extend select routes with additional evening trips. “We’re incredibly grateful that we have the energetic and dedicated workforce to keep our buses on the road and to continue providing critical transportation services each day,” said MCT Managing Director SJ Morrison. “The service cuts that were initially proposed due to the driver shortage would have been detrimental to thousands of Madison County residents.” A summary of the changes, effective Sunday, February 5, 2023, is listed below. For detailed schedule information visit www.mct.org , call 618-797-INFO (4636), or e-mail info@mct.org . ROUTE CHANGES:

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5 On Your Side is partnering with the Missouri History Museum to celebrate Black History Month with a happy hour and panel discussion.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- The big story this week is the impending winter storm. It has all the classic earmarks of a solid snowmaker. The only aspect of this system that is marginal will be the temperatures, which will hover close to freezing throughout the event. This is important for figuring out how the snow [...]

It’s true that New York, New York, is a hell of a town — and, sure, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. But when it comes to great American cities, St. Louis has New York City licked.

The country is mourning the loss of at least 10 people who were killed at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, Calif.

WASHINGTON — A Texas judge could decide as soon as next month whether to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull its two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill, which accounts for more than half of pregnancy terminations in the United States. A nationwide injunction in the case, as requested by anti-abortion groups, would […]

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Once again, the federal court that had the misfortune of dealing with Donald Trump’s pile of conspiracy theory he and his lawyers generously called a “lawsuit” is handing out sanctions to Trump’s legal team. The lawsuit — which claimed Hillary Clinton (and a couple dozen others) conspired to rig the election Trump actually won — […]

A football phenom out of CBC, Kam Babb's football journey was harder than most. He tore his ACL in both knees, twice, but never gave up his dream.

With the deal's close, Clayton-based health care giant Centene launches a multiyear partnership with Virginia-based Evolent Health.

St. Louis has been starved for good bagels. That was immediately apparent upon pulling up to the soft opening of Bagel Union (8705 Big Bend Boulevard, Webster Groves), the new effort from Ted Wilson and Sean Netzer, owners of the beloved Union Loafers Cafe and Bread Bakery. Arriving just 15 minutes after the soft opening's start time of 8 a.m., I found the line to get into the small corner shop stretched down the block and around the corner.