The U.S. Senate confirmed a nominee for a high-ranking military post Wednesday night and advanced another, the first votes on military nominations or promotions since Alabama Republican Tommy Tuberville started blocking them seven months ago to protest Defense Department abortion policies. Tuberville did not object to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York […]
Apple has never looked too kindly upon users actually repairing their own devices, or using lower cost independent repair services. The company’s ham-fisted efforts to shut down, sue, or otherwise imperil third-party repair shops are legendary. As are the company’s efforts to force recycling shops to shred Apple products (so they can’t be refurbished and re-used). Recently, Apple […]
About 2,000 workers at the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant are out of work after the company temporarily closed the plant because of a strike-induced shortage of crucial parts. Those components were coming from a St. Louis-area GM plant, one of three facilities nationwide the UAW struck recently.
An early childhood education operator based in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Bright Start Academy, which has multiple locations in St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri.
The idea behind STL 2030 Progress is to examine three areas of data – metrics to track whether the region’s economy and population are growing, a map of capital projects since 2021 and a section of the website that tracks about 140 initiatives, said Sam Murphey, GSL’s chief strategy officer. The data will be updated regularly, he said.
Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has ordered the U.S. and Illinois flags to be half-staff Thursday in honor of a fallen metro east marine. Captain Eleanor 'Ellie' Leabau Cooke returns to her home in Belleville.
A manhunt is continuing right now for a convicted child sex offender who escaped from Mercy South Hospital early Thursday morning. The hospital is just off Tesson Ferry not far from Interstate 270.
Delays in Missouri's mental health system are putting scores of criminal cases on hold and leaving vulnerable people to languish in jails that exacerbate their mental illnesses, experts say.
A man is in the hospital Thursday morning after authorities say he got into a gunfight with St. Louis County police, who were responding to a domestic disturbance call involving the man.