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Deven Strauther was shot while trying to rob the former Robinson Jewelry store in St. Louis in 2019.

Mary Nguyen and Kristin Liu follow in mother's footsteps with the Kitchen, serving fine Chinese and Vietnamese fare.

Gridlock in the Missouri Senate doomed issues that the GOP should have used its supermajority to accomplish, Gov. Mike Parson said Wednesday, pointing specifically at legislation targeting transgender students and banning critical race theory in schools. In an interview with KFTKs Mark Reardon, Parson lamented that the legislature spent so much time and effort this […]

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The $500 million proposal was approved by lawmakers after they approved a state budget with more than a $1 billion surplus

Amateurs and fromagers alike can say cheese this weekend at the first annual Missouri Artisan Cheese Festival. Hosted by the McKelvey Vineyards (8901 State Highway YY, 573-459-6123), the weekend festivities will include a “cave to table dinner” on Friday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m.; a market featuring Missouri cheesemakers on Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and a laid-back grilled cheese and live music event on Sunday, May 22, from 2 to 5 p.m. The festival will include over 50 varieties of cheese from Missouri cheesemakers as well as the artisans themselves to educate diners and attendees.

THE CONVERSATION - The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a crisis . Retailers nationwide reported supplies of baby formula were out of stock at a rate of 43% during the week ended May 8, 2022, compared with less than 5% in the first half of 2021. In some states, such as Texas and Tennessee , shortages were over 50%, which has prompted parents to travel long distances and pay exorbitant sums of money to grab dwindling supplies of formula for their babies. News that the Food and Drug Administration and Similac-maker Abbott have reached a deal to reopen the formula factory in Sturgis, Michigan, is welcome news for desperate parents, but it will do little to alleviate the shortage anytime soon. This is in no small part because of the very nature of America’s baby formula industry. I research and teach supply chain management , with a special focus on

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Deb Ayres, senior vice president of human resources at Lindenwood University, led faculty and staff leaders in an analysis of performance standards which, once set, were incorporated into each job description. Through collecting and analyzing data, self-evaluation scores, and performance feedback, leaders were better able to utilize the talents on their teams.

Some of the best inventions come from trying to fill a specific need. That’s true for Andrea Lampert, vice president of people at Perficient Inc., who wasted no time expanding the number of women and people of color in the global digital consultancy firm.

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Zoo recently welcomed two Amur leopard cubs, a critically endangered species.

Guitars signed by Journey's Neal Schon, The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and former Traffic member Dave Mason are among the items currently up for bid in a benefit auction that…

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An Anheuser-Busch executive said the company had to raise prices with costs rising and no relief in sight.

Craft Alliance is pleased to present Other Ways of Knowing, a solo exhibition with Kansas City-based ceramic artist Casey Whittier.   Like so many of

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Green Door Art Gallery proudly presents Botanicals & Blooms II, A celebration of all things floral and botanical. The exhibit features sculptural gourd vessels by

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Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis celebrates the best chess, art and culture from all 50 exhibitions held at

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Impressionism and Beyond traces the complex and generative encounters of artists with modern life, highlighting the diverse conversations between tradition and innovation, representation and abstraction, and

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and

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Admission to the Missouri History Museum and this special exhibit is free.   Women, often portrayed as secondary characters in the city’s formation, were actually

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ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Downtown Airport (KCPS) announced that flight operations at the airport increased to a total of 101,938 during 2021, the highest total for the airport in the past five years. The total number of flight operations exceeds 2019 numbers by more than 5%, which is significant considering the coronavirus pandemic continued to significantly impact air travel in 2021. It represents a 31.2% increase over the 2020 flight operations, a strong signal private and business travel customers returned to the skies and flew in and out of the closest airport to downtown St. Louis. “The overall trend for the first quarter of 2022 confirmed the rebound is continuing and is likely to see even greater acceleration due to key events drawing more travelers to the region in the coming months,” said Mary Lamie, Executive Vice President of Multi-Modal Enterprises for Bi-State Development. Bi-StateDevelopment owns and operates the busiest general aviation airport in Illinois,

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The National Weather Service confirmed that a small tornado touched down in Kirkwood as severe storms swept across the St. Louis region on Thursday.