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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general on Monday said he will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors, sidestepping the GOP-led Senate as it struggles to pass a law banning the practice for children completely. As hundreds of activists rallied at the Capitol to pressure lawmakers to act on the bill, Attorney [...]

Want to see something magnificent? Audubon Society’s Sandhill Crane Cam @ Rowe Sanctuary, Platte River Valley, Gibbon, Nebraska. See hundreds of thousands of Sandhill Cranes at dusk and dawn. This week in the garden: Transplant- broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, bok choy; Sow Outdoors- beets, carrots, parsley, spinach, turnips. Plan your 2023 Garden with … Continue reading This Week In Gardening & Nature →

In March of 1928, Jefferson and Market streets were the financial centers of Black St. Louis, and The St. Louis American was about to open an office on the ground floor of the Peoples Finance Building, a modern, five-story office…

The second of three former correctional officers sentenced in the fatal beating of a state inmate received a 20-year prison term Monday, the same as a co-conspirator, despite a judge's declaration he could have stopped the attack as the senior officer.

Police said they saw the hit-and-run victim with a broken leg.

An Illinois man who leaped onto the hood of a car suffered life-threatening injuries when he was thrown off and run over during a police chase early Monday

Sheriff Jeff Burkett was not allowing county officials to have access to surveillance footage at the courthouse, jail and sheriff's department

Ascension’s Nick Ragone compares his chess vs. golf skills – and he’s got game in both.

Eric Levitz writes in New York about America's housing crisis: The scale of our folly only becomes clear when the second-order effects of the housing crisis are brought into view. The most productive and economically vibrant parts of the U.S. are also the places where housing supply has lagged most egregiously behind demand....According to one ...continue reading "Education, not cities, is the key to productivity growth"

In 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States overrode the Third Party Doctrine to declare cell site location info (CSLI) off-limits without a warrant. Recognizing the fact that ubiquitous cell phone use was generating reams of data daily that would allow law enforcement to engage in long-term tracking of people’s movements, the Supreme Court […]

ST. LOUIS – Spring has sprung in the area and with temperatures nearing 70° later this week, lawn care specialists are already pressing into full gear. “Today is the start of really getting into the busy season. So with the temperatures changing, pre-emergents definitely needing to get down,” said Joshua Paske, owner of Paske Pest [...]

An emotional plea from the father of a missing St. Charles woman, as the search for her intensifies.

The federal government wants to test soil and water at a popular hiking spot in north St. Louis County for radiological contamination.

There are a number of reasons to bolster school safety in modern times. A new school identification effort is underway to increase safety when seconds count.

Pink Floyd continues to celebrate this year’s 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, and has just shared a new video looking back at the groundbreaking tour in support of…

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For the second year in a row, the underdogs were the big winners in the first round of St. Louis Inno Madness. In our friendly, bracket-style challenge, the lower seeds won in 11 of the 16 first-round matchups of our 32-company bracket. Some of the biggest upsets included wins by No. 29 GreenFrame over No. 4 Summersalt and No. 28 ChiChi topping No. 5 Aptimmune. More than 1,000 individuals cast votes in the first round of this year’s St. Louis Inno Madness. Several of the first-round matchups…

St. Louis City voters will elect two new School Board Members from three candidates on April 4th. No excuse Absentee Voting (what Missouri calls early voting) begins Tuesday, April 21st at four locations. No incumbent School Board Members are on the ballot. School Board Candidate Profiles are posted here. Not much to see. One candidate … Continue reading School Board Candidate Profiles Updated →

A new paper is out today that tries to estimate job losses from ChatGPT and other similar apps based on Large Language Models. The paper includes much talk of binning and rubrics and OLS regressions, all with lots of Greek letters scattered around. But you don't care about that, since it all boils down to ...continue reading "Here’s a list of jobs that are safe from the ChatGPT revolution"