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Two people are dead and several others, including firefighters, are injured after a Cahokia Heights house fire.

Police said they believe the 50-year-old suffered a medical emergency and was on his way to the hospital when he went missing on Jan. 13.

Watch out, October: September's coming for your Rocktober title with the RockTember festival. The two-day event takes place September 8-9 in Hinckley, Minnesota, and features headliners Bret Michaels and Queensrÿche.…

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A former Jefferson County municipal prosecutor was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday in a case that included video evidence of him coercing a woman he was prosecuting into sex acts using money and reminders of her pending charges.

S. M. Wilson & Co., a St. Louis-based construction manager and contracting firm, has promoted Emily Echele and Ayo Ojolola to Project Managers and David Rall to Assistant Project Manager. As Project Managers, Echele and Ojolola are responsible for subcontractor procurement and management, schedule and budget maintenance and collaborating with the design and engineering teams […]

Charges accuse a 23-year-old Florissant man of shooting a pizza delivery driver in December.

Tonight is President Biden’s State of the Union address, and according to notes released from the White House, he will (for the second year in a row) throw in something blaming the internet for harming kids’ mental health, and pushing for things like a ban on targeted advertising. He did the same thing last year […]

In 1955, a sign was erected in Clayton, Missouri. It recounted the history of the founding of St. Louis County. According to the sign, that history began when the county was “first visited by white colonists” in the early 1700s. Then, in November 2022, the sign was quietly removed — but Geoff Ward, a professor of African and African-American studies at Washington University, says the removal was a missed opportunity to publicly confront white supremacy.

Kevin Buchek, President and founder of Roanoke Construction, a St. Louis-based general contractor, announced today that Kevin Wagner has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer. Kevin Wagner brings more than 20 years of construction and management experience to Roanoke. Most recently, Kevin served as Chief Operating Officer at The Vecino Group, a real estate […]

Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, called for the raises last month, citing a severe recruitment and retention problem. “We must do better,” he said.

Neither Gov. Mike Parson nor legislators should get a proposed pay raise for state workers, the Missouri House Budget Committee decided Tuesday. Parson asked lawmakers to approve an 8.7% pay hike, the biggest in living memory, to stem the loss of state workers to the private sector. No state department is fully staffed and some […]

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People would only get eight weeks of unemployment benefits when the unemployment rate is low.

A Missouri Botanical Garden exhibition that examines the relationship between sound and plants will close at the end of March. Nezka Pfeifer, the curator of “Botanical Resonance: Plants and Sounds in the Garden,” discusses how the exhibition reveals important things about how we interact with our environment.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to halt the execution of a Missouri man convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children nearly two decades ago — apparently clearing the way for the execution to proceed.

Hours after the tiny home was reported stolen, it was recovered, Des Peres Department of Public Safety Director Eric Hall said.

St. Louis County Council will consider changing its rules Tuesday night for public speakers after years of listening to topics largely unrelated to county business.

Regardless who wins Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, at least one St. Louis-area product will end up with a ring. Both teams roster at least one player from the St. Louis region.

Illinois’ state museum system holds more than 7,000 burial remains taken from Native American mounds and other sites. Yet, despite a 1990 federal law that required museums start returning remains, Illinois did “close to nothing” for more than 20 years. That finding is among the takeaways from ProPublica reporter Logan Jaffe’s latest investigation. She discusses her findings on the Illinois State Museum system, its decades-long refusal to return thousands of burial remains to tribal groups, and also signs that this pattern may be changing for the better.