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Orchard Town Center will be developed in two phases, with plans for everything to be built out by 2024.

ST. LOUIS - The Saint Louis Zoo's black rhinoceros Moyo was sent to the Birmingham Zoo in hopes of creating a family. He made it safely to the zoo in Alabama on June 11. The 5-year-old black rhino was moved based on a breeding recommendation made by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Moyo [...]

ALTON - Bright Hope Chapter No. 85 Order of the Eastern Stars of Alton, IL., Prince Hall Affiliated will be celebrating its 100 th Year Anniversary at 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 7, 2022. This celebration will be held at the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, 2621 Amelia Street, Alton, where the host Pastor is Reverend John Buford. The speaker will be Pastor Donald Tolbert of the Church of the Living God, Alton. The public is invited. There will be a fellowship dinner afterward. For more information please contact Worthy Matron Maxine Caldwell at 618-795-5786 or Past Worthy Matron Rosie Brown at 618-580-2394.

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Attorney Amy Harms spoke in detail Wednesday night about her allegation that Senator Steve Roberts (D-St. Louis) sexually assaulted her at a St. Louis bar in 2015. Harms spoke about the assault and a subsequent settlement agreement at a press conference, six days before Roberts will face U.S. Representative Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) in a primary election for Missouri’s First Congressional District. “I certainly never expected in my entire life that I would be giving a press conference,” Harms told a crowd of about a dozen people in the St. Louis Civil Courts Building.

The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (IPHF) held a juried international photography contest collecting submissions from talented artists from all around the world.

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The photographs in the Silver Seas exhibit are an extraordinary result of an exceptional career. Ernest H. Brooks II, often referred to as the Ansel

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Two IDOT workers were shot Wednesday night while working north of Mount Vernon, Illinois.

For much of the last two years, the Missouri Senate has been mired in Republican infighting. On one side is GOP leadership, who have struggled to advance a legislative agenda despite controlling 24 of the chamber’s 34 seats. On the other is the conservative caucus, which spent most of the 2022 legislative session throwing up […]

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Madonna knows biopics are hot right now, and that's precisely why she got the jump on making one about her life.   Speaking with Variety, the Grammy winner said making a biopic was about…

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Valentine has drawn fire for recent comments about transgender people.

It's a big weekend here in St. Louis. We've got dinosaurs, the World Naked Bike Ride, a music festival and a hot air balloon glow. What more could you ask for?

This week has yummy food and more classics playing at The Muny. If you're feeling celestial, however, there is a chance to look to the stars.

ST. LOUIS - A 15-year-old boy was killed in a crash late Wednesday night in south St. Louis. Police said the driver of a Jeep Wrangler was traveling northbound on South Broadway at about 11:30 p.m. when he made a left-hand turn in order to travel west on Loughborough. The front end of the Jeep [...]

The Cure has announced a deluxe reissue of the band's 1992 album, Wish, in honor of its 30th anniversary. The three-disc set includes newly remastered audio of the original record, a collection…

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Coria "CC" Griggs cannot explain the pull she's long felt toward Haiti. It's a feeling she had throughout her upbringing in Louisiana, and it's what inspired her to finally hop on a plane to the island nation a few years ago. As she tells it, there is some sort of connection between her own Creole roots and Haitian culture — perhaps something generational that courses through her DNA.

Take a load off and take in the views on a relaxing daytime cruise that shows St. Louis from the river that built it. Narrated

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Durbin is in quarantine with what he described as minor symptoms.

by Agnel Philip, ProPublica; Hannah Rappleye, NBC News; Eli Hager, ProPublica; Suzy Khimm, NBC News; and Nirma Hasty, NBC News

Journalists at ProPublica and NBC News would like to connect with people whose parental rights have been terminated in the past decade.

We have received an outpouring of responses, and at this time we are only looking for people with cases in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.

We want to understand how your case was handled by your state’s child welfare agency and courts, and what types of services you were provided to help reunite your family.

We know this can be difficult to talk about, and we appreciate you sharing your experience. Filling out our short questionnaire will help us do more reporting that matters to your community.

We take your privacy seriously. We are gathering these stories for the purposes of our reporting, and we will contact you if we wish to publish any part of your response.

We won’t be able to respond to everyone who reaches out, and we cannot provide legal advice or assistance with your case. But we promise to read everything you submit, which will help guide our work.

Asia Fields contributed reporting.