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Kenneth M. Smith, 35, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of 26-year-old Jason Slater.

Columbia police conducting a welfare check on behalf of the mother of a worried Mizzou student discovered a dead body in a fire pit behind a house north of campus on Tuesday. The discovery of the body led to second-degree murder charges against 20-year-old Emma Adams, who was at the house where the body was found when police arrived. According to reporter Madeline Carter, when police asked Adams whose body was behind the house, she responded, "He was beating me," and that she had stabbed the man in self-defense.

From Construction Dive:  Construction leaders can expect institutional building construction to hover around the same level of activity in 2023 as it did in 2022, said Richard Branch, chief economist at Dodge Construction Network. Dodge forecasts institutional building starts, which include education, health care, recreation and transportation structures, to hit $171 billion in 2023, the same […]

If it's inflation day, it's also earnings day. Average weekly earnings were down -18 cents from November, which comes to +71 cents after adjusting for (negative!) inflation: Unfortunately, this is good news. Weak wage growth might be bad for workers, but it's good for inflation. Along with the great CPI numbers, this should go a ...continue reading "Weekly wages were down 18 cents in December"

Ben Poremba presents a wealth of tastes and textures in the former Billie-Jean space.

St. Louis Judge David Mason is still reviewing Lamar Johnson’s wrongful conviction case and working toward a decision on whether or not to set aside his 1995 murder conviction, a court spokesman told The Missouri Independent.

Fabricating Empire examines the relationship between the development of Central European folk costume and Austrian modern design, especially the textile department of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops.   Taking

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Data journalist, illustrator and writer Mona Chalabi presents a large-scale exhibition on the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ Project Wall.   Chalabi’s work is informed by statistics gathered on politics,

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Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young’s practice centers on installation-based work stemming from sound and music. He interweaves cultural paradigms across media while focusing on poetic translations between the sonic and

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Part of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ fall/winter exhibition, “Great Rivers Biennial” is a biannual collaborative initiative between the museum and the Gateway Foundation designed to foster artistic talent

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky in the legendary 1972 World

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

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Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi creates large-scale, figurative, and often text-based paintings, drawing from the tropes of history painting and cinema to probe systems of knowledge production, the politics of representation,

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In the dramatic years between the two world wars, German art ranged from an activist realism to a utopian idealism. This exhibition presents a selection of work that questions the

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents the first retrospective of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia) in over forty years. This exhibition will be the largest monographic exhibition of her

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The condemnation of the Railway Exchange Building could eventually allow the city to take possession and clear the way for a long-awaited redevelopment.

St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and Nelly. It’s been home to

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From World Of Concrete: If you’re experiencing higher levels of backlog you’re not alone. A recent report from Associated Builders and Contractors revealed that backlogs for construction contractors are now at their highest point since the second quarter of 2019. The ABC report, known as the “Construction Backlog Indicator,” showed that backlog has increased by almost a month on average […]