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Smith represents southeast Missouri, including some area counties, in the House of Representatives. The Salem native is first state lawmaker to head powerful committee since 1859.

The bill specifically targets major thoroughfares such as Kingshighway, Grand and Jefferson Avenue, as well as the city's most dangerous intersections.

The crash was reported just after midnight Wednesday at Vandeventer and Washington avenues.

The district has been under fire after cutting some diversity programs. Black students want the initiatives restored so they can better navigate mostly white schools.

Back in September, a jury found Tim Norman guilty of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire resulting in death and mail fraud.

Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel raised several objections Wednesday to President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, while Democrats indicated their support and called the objections “fake scandals” meant only to create a political controversy. The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s confirmation hearing for Phil Washington, CEO of Denver International Airport, […]

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My dad loved Mark Twain, though I suspect his semi-regular insistence on day trips to Hannibal had more to do with ground beef than Mr. Clemens' wit. The evidence for this was our ritual stop at the Mark Twain Dinette before doing any other activities. An institution dating back to the early 1940s, the dinette was known for a lot of things — its status as the city's oldest restaurant, its location next to Twain's boyhood home and its homemade root beer — but the eatery's biggest claims to fame were its Maid-Rites, a hamburger-adjacent concoction that's generically known as a loose meat sandwich, which consists of seasoned ground beef tucked into a basic burger bun and classically dressed with pickles and yellow mustard.

Governor Mike Parson comes to St. Louis on Thursday to ceremonially sign the bill giving state workers a pay raise.

A former St. Louis reality TV star will be sentenced Thursday for the murder-for-hire plot of his nephew.

A person died in a rollover crash in the Grand Center neighborhood of St. Louis.

Crews are at the scene of a fire at a north St. Louis City business Thursday morning.

Road crews like those at MoDOT and IDOT are trying to get ahead of the approaching storm by having crews out clearing debris to minimize the risk of drains clogging.

“Leave Kim Gardner alone! Hands off Kim.” “It’s a Legal Lynching!”

Interstate feuds threaten to make the difficult task of getting regional power grids off fossil fuels even more complicated.

"They need to clean up their act or leave," Alderman James Page said about the gas station.

With the incumbent and the early front-runner out in Chicago’s mayoral race, the remaining combatants represent a contrast of styles.

Cleaning up air pollution might increase global temperature by as much as an entire degree Celsius.

Pennsylvania residents are increasingly anxious about health impacts and water contamination after the East Palestine derailment.