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The St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Dogtown is held annually on March 17. In addition to the Ancient Order of Hibernians Parade, Dogtown United coordinates an Irish Festival to highlight

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Next Saturday, March 25, Chaifetz Arena (1 South Compton Avenue, 314-977-5000) won’t be full for a basketball game or a concert. Instead, the party will be poppin’ for something that is arguably better: tacos and margaritas. That’s right, next week St. Louis sees the launch of the inaugural Taco & Margarita Festival.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers should view America’s staggering opioid crisis, including the rise of illicit fentanyl, through an “ecosystems” approach, argues a massive RAND Corporation report published Thursday. That means they should examine the gaps and interconnections among emergency response, data collection, education, treatment, housing and law enforcement, the report advises. The 600-page volume — which the authors […]

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To crack down on price gouging, proposed legislation in Missouri calls for allowing felony charges against health care staffing agencies that substantially raise their prices during a declared emergency. A New York bill includes a cap on the amount staffing agencies can charge health care facilities. And a Texas measure would allow civil penalties against […]

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The median price for a single-family house in St. Louis County now stands at about $222,300, compared with the median price from two years ago of about $192,000.

A former judge gets involved in the Missouri attorney general's petition to remove Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from office.

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack bristled at complaints from both Democrats and Republicans of unchecked departmental spending and delayed support for farmers during a Thursday U.S. Senate oversight hearing. He also lobbied Congress to provide a farm bill that will balance large-scale productivity with the needs of small and mid-sized producers, a theme the […]

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Iron County Sheriff Jeff Burkett and two of his deputies were being held Friday in jail in neighboring Washington County, accused of "criminal street gang activity" in what prosecutors allege was a parental kidnapping plot to help a friend.

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts, Amazing Art from Pieces and Pixels, features Pysanky by Katherine Alexander, Digital Art by Matt Bryan, Mosaics by Brenda Fra-ser, Assemblage by Nell

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Churches, VFW halls, American Legion posts and other places fry up untold tons of fish every Friday between Ash Wednesday and, in some cases, Good Friday. There are even a few spots where you can get fried fish year-round. Use…

Centene's charitable foundation is redirecting local giving away from the arts to focus on health and social services causes.

The first U.S. solo exhibition by Faye HeavyShield invokes the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and the Mississippian mound building culture. She is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kanai Nation in Alberta.

The defense attorney representing a St. Louis man who was accused of killing a Parkway West senior in April 2020 says that the prosecutor handling the case for the Circuit Attorney's Office withheld crucial, potentially exculpatory evidence the office had in its possession for more than two years. Carieal J. Doss, 18, was found dead on April 14, 2020, on a sidewalk in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood, having suffered a gunshot wound to the head. Levi Henning, who is now 21, was charged with Doss' murder almost a year later.

Hundreds of food service workers at Washington University are facing layoffs this spring as the university's contract with a California-based company ends.

A bipartisan coalition of Senators including Roger Wicker (MS), Todd Young (IN), Mark Kelly (AZ) and Ben Ray Luján (NM) are poised to reintroduce legislation supported by telecom monopolies that could ultimately result in tech giants paying telecom giants billions of dollars for no coherent reason. The soon to be reconstituted FAIR Contributions Act, word […]

The EPA orders Ameren Missouri to submit a plan for cleaning up wastewater contamination in St. Charles.

Starting March 22, The Greek Kitchen will switch to an expanded and altered menu as Hungry Joe’s.

Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that crashed in midtown, St. Louis.

WASHINGTON — Battered by years of criticism from U.S. lawmakers and environmental advocates, the Department of Defense will stop purchasing PFAS-containing firefighting foam later this year and phase it out entirely in 2024. The replacement for Aqueous Film Forming Foam has yet to be determined, and advocates are frustrated it’s taken so long to halt […]

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