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Washington University has hired a social work professor from Southern California as the next dean of the Brown School. The University said last week that Dorian Traube, a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, was appointed as dean of the Brown School, effective Aug. 1. WashU's Brown School offers graduate education in social work, public health and social policy. Traube will succeed professors Tonya Edmond and Rodrigo Reis, who have served…

Chances that sports betting becomes legal in Missouri this year are getting smaller and smaller after the Senate debated for eight hours on the topic without taking a vote. 

Today I read this story in the Guardian: In 2018, almost 30 cities across New York state received federal money to carry out a specific, urgent task: removing lead service lines that poison drinking water. The city of Troy — which sits across the Hudson River and just north of Albany — was among them, ...continue reading "What’s going on with the water in Troy?"

A former Potosi, Missouri, police officer is now facing federal charges tied to child sex trafficking.

Metallica is raffling off a VIP concert experience to raise money for the band's All Within My Hands charity foundation. The grand prize winner will get to take up to…

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A woman convicted of robbing banks in the 1970s and again in 2020 is suspected in another.

Wednesday morning’s severe weather produced a deadly tornado in southeast Missouri. The survivors credit their mobile alert system for giving them warning, allowing them to take cover in time.

Are you ready to experience the power of Art that changes lives? Then you won’t want to miss what we have in store for you at Urban Arts Collective at

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Kick off your weekend at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park! Each Thursday Night at the Museum will be the most fun, engaging, uplifting, thought-provoking, perspective-shaping night of your week. And there

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If there is one aspect of trademark law that should be the most understandable for business leaders and their lawyers, if not for the general public, it’s that you generally cannot get trademarks on purely descriptive terms. Yes, you can name your product Coca-Cola and get a trademark on that term, but you cannot get […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving the city of St. Charles and Ameren 21 days to reach an agreement for entry by Ameren representatives to investigate and work on the Elm Point Wellfield. In a letter signed Monday, the EPA is asking for entry by representatives of Ameren to access St. Charles property "for the purposes of investigating and responding to environmental conditions at this location." The letter states Ameren needs access to St. Charles property for monitoring existing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. In a lengthy story published Thursday, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization catalogs various trips Thomas has taken aboard Crow's yacht and [...]

Staffing, salaries and combining dispatchers under the same roof is still lagging.

We are approximately a year away from experiencing another total solar eclipse. Missouri and Illinois are two of 15 states in the contiguous United States that will be in the path of totality.

In 1968 Lyndon Johnson nominated Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but the nomination failed because Republicans, along with some Southern Democrats, filibustered it. The Southerners didn't like the fact that Fortas was Jewish. Republicans, however, pointed to Fortas's receipt of $15,000 in private funds to give nine speeches at a ...continue reading "Republicans don’t care about Clarence Thomas’s lavish vacations"

Former St. Charles County Councilman Joseph McCulloch, the brother of former St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, is among 11 applicants to succeed Tim Lohmar as St. Charles County prosecutor.