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Fowler has served as President of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis (formerly Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club) since 1996.

A St. Charles woman who had been missing for nearly a week was found dead Monday night inside a Maryland Heights apartment.

There are concerns that vital services would be starved for funds.

The U.S. director of national intelligence has three months to declassify information on potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday.

Seventy-seven years ago, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech. In the 1960’s, college leaders sought to commemorate Churchill’s visit so they devised a plan to rebuild a church in Fulton that had been destroyed twice in London: once by a fire in the 1600s and then again during World War II. Dedicated in Fulton in 1969, St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury is now undergoing a $6 million renovation. Tim Riley, director and chief curator at America’s National Churchill Museum, talks about Churchill’s connection to Missouri, the restoration of the church and about the parallels to Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.

The Missouri General Assembly passed legislation in 2019 and 2021 to restrict counties from imposing regulations on industrial livestock operations.

The St. Louis American's 95th Anniversary.

The Missouri legislation still has a ways to go — it needs a second House approval before it can move to the Senate and then to the governor.

Once scheduled for demolition, a historic office building across from a hospital in Midtown has instead been converted into The Nicholas, a boutique apartment complex, in an estimated $8.5 million project.

ROXANA - 2nd Generation Distribution is a wholesale retailer of everything from Little Debbie products and other snacks to custom woodwork gifts, furniture, electronics, appliances, and more - all at heavily discounted prices. At their small storefront at 301 S. Old Edwardsville Road in Roxana, customers can avoid the long lines and price markups of bigger stores. “The biggest thing that we push is we’re family-owned and we’re local,” 2nd Generation Distribution Owner Brad Pence said. “We really try to offer as much as we can to people at a low price, while also trying to keep things local - small businesses, that kind of stuff - so we can pass off savings to consumers.” In addition to a wide range of Little Debbie snacks (some of which are available earlier than they are in regular stores), customers can also find locally made and customizable woodwork gifts from 618 American Flag WoodWorking , liquidated merchandise at 60% off from big-bo

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In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social media platform saw a “surge in hateful conduct,” which its then safety chief put down to a “focused, short-term trolling campaign.” New research suggests that when it comes to antisemitism, it was anything but. Rather, antisemitic tweets have more than doubled over the months since Musk took […]

Gary Muehlberg pleaded guilty to murdering Brenda Pruitt and Donna Reitmeyer in the 1990s.

An Iron County, Missouri, man appeared in federal court Tuesday and admitted starting fires in the Mark Twain National Forest and threatening a federal officer.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's quest to remove Kim Gardner from office continued today when he filed a 120-page amended petition in circuit court accusing the embattled circuit attorney of a litany of failures while in office, including a failure to prosecute a man who killed a seven-year-old. According to Bailey's court filing, Gardner's mismanagement has resulted in judges dismissing more than 2,700 cases. Gardner's own office has dismissed more than 9,000 cases due to a lack of diligence, the amended petition says.

The program is available to players in pre-K through sixth grade at eight Gateway Region YMCA branches.

Corporate income taxes could be eliminated within four years.

Key changes in the compromise include an exemption for current patients and a four-year expiration date.

At the center of the federal anti-abortion lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the abortion drug mifepristone and the regimen that reportedly accounts for the majority of abortions in post-Roe America. That’s why the whole country is bracing itself for a ruling from a notoriously anti-abortion judge in Amarillo, Texas.  The attention […]

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Mission Taco Joint, a local, West Coast-style taco restaurant concept, and Big Chicken, a chicken sandwich concept by basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, are both set to begin service at Busch Stadium on opening day.