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A dispute turned deadly Friday evening in Riverview when a woman died and a man was hurt in a shooting.

A Florissant man died after a crash Friday afternoon involving a Metro bus in north St. Louis County.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will send more than $500 million in loans and grants to telecommunications providers to bring high-speed internet to rural areas across 20 states, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday. The department will spend $360 million in grants and $141 million in loans through its ReConnect Program to benefit sparsely populated communities, including in [...]

An investigation is underway after a motorcyclist died in a south St. Louis crash Saturday morning on Interstate 55.

Albert Pujols conquered the quest for 700 home runs on Friday night, slugging his 699th and 700th home runs in back-to-back at-bats at Dodger Stadium.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After two months of sleeping in the Salvation Army Center of Hope homeless shelter, Margaret Davis has had no luck finding an apartment she can afford. Davis, …

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis has been activated to investigate a homicide in St. Ann.

Five Years Ago This week in 2017, the Senate was moving ever closer to passing SESTA, as it held a hearing that showcased the issues with the bill. We wrote about the many reasons it was so terrible, and noted that it put just about every single online service at risk, but Senator Blumenthal seemed […]

ALTON - Simmons Hanly Conroy and Metro Tri Club of Edwardsville once again teamed up to put on the 14 th Annual Alton Miles for Meso 5K Run and 3K Fun Run/Walk in honor of National Mesothelioma Awareness Day which is Monday, September 26 th . People have been looking forward to this event for a couple of years now. Todd Adamitis, an organizer of the event said that the races had more than 1,000 people registered. He remembers the days when they had less than 50 participants. The long-running event produced a large crowd Saturday morning in Upper Alton with the race’s start/finish line being right outside of Marquette Catholic High School’s front doors. For 12 years the event has always been in-person, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first face-to-face run in three years. In 2020 and 2021 the race was put on in a virtual capacity. “Both virtual runs had 1,000 people registered,” Adamitis said. “Because of that virtual race, it has

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Several school districts in the Metro East are expected to receive millions in additional funding as part of an Illinois initiative.

Having written a technical preface a couple of days ago, it's now time to write a review of Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia. I'd like to keep this tolerably short, but even as I type these words I know that's not in the cards. Don't say you weren't warned. OK then. Roughly speaking, I'd say ...continue reading "“Slouching Towards Utopia”: The actual review itself"

An investigation is underway after a man was shot in the face Friday in north St. Louis.

The van is a temporary alternative to the #2 Cahokia MetroBus while construction crews complete work on the Curtiss-Steinberg Bridge.

Tayvion Whitby, 16, of the 4500 block of Morganford Avenue in St. Louis was pronounced dead after police found him with a gunshot wound in a car that had crashed.

Police said the shooting happened on Edlor Drive as the result of a robbery.