The debut novelist and resident of Troy, Illinois, explains how family stories and the long-suppressed truth about Stalin terrorizing Ukraine led to her book “The Memory Keeper of Kyiv” — and the long process of researching and writing it.
Three St. Louis-area sustainable agriculture startups received a $250,000 financial boost from Wells Fargo's Innovation Incubator to further their research on crop vulnerabilities.
The Washington Post dropped what it pretended was a bit of a bombshell. In the story, Google software engineer Blake Lemoine implied that Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) system, which pulls from Google’s vast data and word repositories to generate realistic, human-sounding chatbots, had become fully aware and sentient. He followed that up with […]
St. Louis has become the first Missouri city to completely ban no-knock search warrants, or warrants that allow police officers to enter a property without announcing their presence. Surrounded by …
New Mexico is the latest state where Centene Corp. has reached a settlement over an investigation into its pharmacy benefit management practices for the Medicaid program.
ALTON - The Alton Salvation Army announced today it will serve as a cooling center when temperatures are 90 degrees or higher. The weather forecast for several coming days shows temperatures will top 90 degrees. The Salvation Army Alton location is at 525 Alby St. The center will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday during this high-temperature time for the public to cool off. The Alton Salvation Army will offer cold drinks, snacks when available, and a cool place to rest with games and puzzles. "People who want to support the mission can donate to The Salvation Army Midland Division on its website," Alton Salvation Army Capt. Cassy Grey said. The website is here: https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/midland/
Tuesday night will be big for werewolves, tides and good old-fashioned lunatics, as a supermoon will light up the sky once the sun finally decides it's had enough attention for the day. June's full moon is commonly dubbed the "strawberry moon," so named by the Algonquin Native American tribe in reference to the start of the northeastern United States' strawberry harvest season. This year's strawberry moon is extra special, as it will be at the closest distance to Earth that it reaches in its orbit, qualifying it as a supermoon.
Ozzy Osbourne is "doing well" and "on the road to recovery" after undergoing surgery Monday. That's according to the metal legend's wife, Sharon, who shared an update on her husband's…
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has charged a Jefferson County man in a shooting spree that happened Sunday in Ellisville and Wildwood.
A potential loosening of St. Charles liquor laws have some business owners up in arms. A bill up for final vote next Tuesday would eliminate St. Charles’ requirement for bars' and restaurants’ alcohol sales to make up no more than half of their total revenue. Many business owners are threatening to leave in response, but advocates of the measure say it will benefit the area.
The first St. Louis Starbucks stores have unionized. Over the past 24 hours, three Starbucks locations have taken a vote to unionize. Two of those locations, one in Ladue and one at Kingshighway and Chippewa, agreed to unionize in 12-3 and 9-4 votes, respectively, according to Mari Orrego, an organizer with the labor union Chicago and Midwest Joint Board of Workers United.
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