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John Fogerty has found a new California home. According to the Robb Report, the Creedence Clearwater Revival rocker recently purchased Sylvester Stallone’s 2.2-acre ranch in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.  Fogerty reportedly paid $17.2 million for…

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Alex Tabarrok agrees that the "deaths of despair" narrative has been oversold. But he's not ready to give it up completely: I wouldn’t, however, throw out despair as an organizing principle. The evidence on “despair” goes beyond death to include a host of co-morbidities such as mental stress, marriage rates, labor force participation rates and ...continue reading "“Despair” doesn’t seem to have increased this century"

SPRINGFIELD – A total of $2,161,000 in grants to help communities develop and improve 13 local bike path projects throughout Illinois was announced today by Governor JB Pritzker. “Bicycle path projects are excellent drivers of job creation and economic development, while also increasing road safety for bicyclists,” Governor Pritzker said . “Illinois’ beautiful natural landscape should be accessible and safe for all to enjoy, and I’m pleased that projects like this help make that goal a reality.” The Illinois Bicycle Path Grant Program is administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Funding comes from a percentage of the motor vehicle title fees, providing a maximum grant award of $200,000 per project for development projects, with no maximum grant award limit for land acquisition projects. Village of Glen Carbon, Glen Carbon Road Shared Use Path, Phase II – $200,000 The Village of Glen Carbon will extend the

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Across the U.S., reform-minded prosecutors have faced pushback from police departments. In St. Louis, issues around police accountability and racial bias were thrown in sharp relief after Michael Brown, Jr. was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer in 2014. ProPublica reporter Jeremy Kohler is co-writer of the new piece, “A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.” Kohler talks about that story, which focuses on local figures whose conflict reflects what’s happening in other parts of the country.

“We're trying to be aggressive in ensuring that it's a one time blip for us,” DeWitt said.

"No one should be surprised if it happens," Sandoval said of Orlando and Charlotte passing St. Louis. "It will happen. If not next July, it's the next one."

On Tuesday, October 10, police responded to a shooting in South St. Louis, specifically on Osage Alley.

Gaming tax revenue grew more than 5% to $1.99 billion in the fiscal year that ended in June, according to a report from the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

Charges have been filed against Max Jones, a 21-year-old resident of St. Louis, who was found guilty of murder. He is currently being held on a $1 million cash-only bond. Jones was charged on October 10 for the murder of Earl Jones, Jr., a 57-year-old resident of St. Louis. 

I realized recently that I had now passed 30 years on the internet, having obtained my first internet access in August of 1993 — the same year that many consider to be the year that the internet became commercial. That was back when you had to obtain access to the internet, rather than just… having […]

The restaurants he owns allow diners to pick two — but Mike Hamra seems to be hoping that voters will pick him as the one. The scion of a family-owned Springfield, Missouri, company that owns chain eateries across the South, including Wendy's and Panera Bread, Hamra recently formed an exploratory committee to run for Missouri governor in 2024, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Unlike the frontrunners for the job, Hamra is a Democrat.

Two inmates stole the guard's radio and pepper spray during the attack Sunday morning.

Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx, drummer Matt Sorum and Styx are among the artists donating items to a new auction benefiting Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen’s Raven Drum Foundation.  The 12 Drummers Drumming auction helps raise money for Raven…

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About 50 people signed up to speak at the meeting, most in a protest organized by charter school supporters.

The crash was about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at South 14th Street and Clark Avenue.

A home in Webster Groves is one step closer to receiving historic status.