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ST. LOUIS – City health officials have decided that it’s finally safe enough for most people to stop wearing face masks even indoors. The COVID-19 mask mandate will end Sunday, …

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched an investigation into a gas explosion that leveled one home and damaged others in O'Fallon, Missouri.

Beginning May 7, the largest airline in Canada will start daily non-stop service to Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Lodging Hospitality Management wants to build 254 apartments to compliment West Port Plaza's mix of offices, shops and restaurants.

Over the last five to six years, The NarrativeTM has been that Russia has built up such powerful propaganda and social media disinformation peddlers that it could effectively drive its own narrative and convince entire populations to go along with its preferred version of reality (i.e., not reality). There have always been reasons to question […]

Benjamin Slay pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and causing the death of a passenger in his vehicle in 2018.

Letter To The Editor by Local Business Entrepreneur Jason Harrison The unfortunate truth of owning and running a business. Running a business is really hard. What they don’t tell you is that it can cause severe stress and anxiety, and drains you mentally to the point of depression in even the most laid-back people. People will talk about you, compare you to others, use you, they will view you as a service and not a person anymore. Some close to you will expect discounts and people will value you and your hard work less than a big chain store. You have to worry about if you forget to email/message someone back, are they going to think it was on purpose? Did you disappoint them? Will they hold that against you? When in reality you just can’t get to everyone’s messages and emails. Starting up and running a successful business puts incredible strain on personal lives and relationships, many of which fail because there is just often no work-life balance. You need

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ST. LOUIS – On March 2, 2022, United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk sentenced Antwan Jones to eight years in federal prison for his role in a carjacking, weapons charges and assaulting a federal officer. Jones had previously pleaded guilty in November 2021. According to the plea agreement, Jones and his co-defendant stopped their SUV next to the victim on January 15, 2020. Jones approached the victim at gunpoint and demanded her purse. The carjacking victim surrendered her purse, which contained the keys to her car. Jones and his co-defendant drove around the area and used the victim’s key fob to locate her Mercedes Benz. Once they found the car parked nearby, they used the victim’s keys to drive her car away. Later that night, police tracked the victim’s phone to East St. Louis, Illinois. There, police discovered the SUV originally used by Jones parked in the 1800 block of Boismenue Avenue with the victim’s purse still inside. According

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY - On Thursday, March 3, 2022, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued warrants on suspect Devon Gibson, 28 years of age, of the 6800 block of Georgeland in St. Louis, Missouri 63134, for one count of Murder First Degree, three counts of Armed Criminal Action, one count of Assault 1 st , one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon and one count of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. A mugshot of Gibson is attached. Gibson is being held on a $750,000 cash only, no 10%, bond. Please note, charges are merely an accusation and Defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law. The probable cause statement for Gibson reads: On February 25, 2022, the Defendant arrived at the Liquor Doctor in a 2019 Nissan Altima and pulled alongside the Victim’s vehicle in the parking lot. The Defendant, utilizing a .40 caliber handgun, shot from his vehicle into the Victim’s vehicle striking both occupants, killing Victim and causing

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The St. Louis Blues made the announcement on Friday.

Executive Order Returns Schools to Normal Operating Procedures for Infectious Diseases CHICAGO– With Illinois continuing to see vast improvement in recent weeks of COVID-19 hospitalizations and transmission, today Governor Pritzker released an updated executive order lifting the school exclusion requirements, shifting schools back to the ordinary processes for handling infectious diseases. The executive order was initially put in place to standardize CDC requirements for schools and alleviate the burden on overwhelmed local health departments from having to provide individualized recommendations. Now that the COVID-19 surge has subsided, schools and local health departments can return to exercising their longstanding authority to address infectious disease cases among students and staff. The CDC and IDPH continue to strongly recommend that students, teachers, and staff stay home when they have a confirmed case of COVID-19 or have signs of any infectious illness, including

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The tattoo policy developed by the police chief sets his department apart from others.

The group will visit Poland, the country that has taken in the most Ukrainian refugees

The lottery ticket was a "Rose Gold" ticket, which is a $10 game that began in August.

A Kansas City area carrier admitted to stealing almost 100 cards worth thousands of dollars.

Gerald Fitzgerald Hunter led a conspiracy that brought fentanyl to St. Louis from California.

ALTON - A motorist knocked down a telephone pole around 3 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2022, at Brown and Milton in Alton. The Alton Fire Department said the woman declined any medical treatment at the scene and was not transported to a local hospital. Alton Police is investigating the crash and there were no other details available. The vehicle encountered significant damage in the crash.

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Thanks to the one-two punch of the infrastructure bill and COVID relief, there’s more money sloshing around in the U.S. broadband ecosystem than perhaps any time in history. $46 billion (with a b) is slated to be distributed by the government over the next year, much of it overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information […]