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A south St. Louis family is safe Thursday morning after a fire left a lot of damage to a two-story house in the area.

Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay a roughly $145 million settlement following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation alleging the company overcharged employees for its own stock.

The stormy weather Wednesday night did a bit of damage across the area.

The news, under Noble Health letterhead, arrived at 5:05 p.m. on a Friday, with the subject line: “Urgent Notice.” Audrain Community Hospital, Paul Huemann’s workplace of 32 years, was letting workers go. Word travels fast in a small town. Huemann’s wife, Kym, first heard the bad news in the car when a friend who’d gotten […]

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Track has attracted few racers so far but is ready for when EV racing takes off

The final hearing is set for the week of Dec. 12, court records show.

Thursday marks the first official day of fall, and with it comes pumpkin-flavored everything and eventually a landscape full of colorful leaves.

Missouri holds its second annual Hazel Erby Day Celebration Thursday.

COLLINSVILLE - Edwardsville senior midfielder Axton Anom played very well for the Tigers in their 2-1 loss at Collinsville Tuesday night at Kahok Stadium, as did the entire team. After the loss, the Tigers' spirits were still up and positive, and Anom felt the Tigers did play as well as they could in the second match of the year against Collinsville. "I'm always feeling bad after the loss," Anom said in a post-match interview, "but I think the boys gutted it out from the beginning to the end. I think we worked hard on defense, but we sat out. We had a mission coming into this game to work hard and play our soccer and I think we did that. A little mistake for the goal, but I'll take the blame for that one on that one, but I think we just move on after this." It was a very clinical, goal-scorers type of goal that Reiniger score to give the Kahoks the three points, but the Tigers still worked hard throughout the 80 minutes, just falling short in the end. "Yeah, we went out there, we

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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 […]

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt made a campaign stop in O'Fallon, Missouri Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed on Wednesday a bill updating a 19th-century law in an attempt to prevent the subversion of future presidential elections. The Presidential Election Reform Act, which passed 229-203, is meant to deter a repeat of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, in which the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a mob of […]

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Moscow Mills locals are being asked to conserve water Thursday morning.

More than a million people in Puerto Rico still don't have power after being hit by Hurricane Fiona.

This might be the most hopping weekend of the year to date in the greater St. Louis region. If leather contests aren't your thing, hop onto Shakespeare, Tower Grove Pride, walking tours of the city's hot spots or the Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival. Don't forget to plan your week while you're at it!

It was the beginning of 2020, and Matthew Fuller was looking forward to an exciting year. For the first time ever, he was booked solid with music gigs for the entire calendar, a lineup of shows that would take him all over the country doing what he loved. He was on top of the world, but in a few short months, he watched each of those shows get canceled as the pandemic ravaged life as we knew it.

As the insane temperatures dip away this week (at least for the moment), a flurry of fantastic events follow in their wake and, maybe someday, fall color as well. You can get outside this week with an Oktoberfest celebration or Story Collider or stay even cooler indoors with an Andrew Sean Greer book reading or yoga in the planetarium.

The Cardinals’ magic number to clinch the NL Central remained at six. They have 12 games left in the regular season.