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Hip-hop and pop are the most popular genres of music in America, according to online marketing and search startup My Telescope.

The parent company of the iconic St. Louis-based pizza business said a new leader is at the helm. He has experience in brand development, food manufacturing, supply-chain organization and retail-products marketing.

EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Police on Tuesday announced that it has been made aware of unknown persons calling residents with a proposal to "reimburse" them for utility services. The Edwardsville Police stressed to residents that this is a scam. "These callers are also using fake caller IDs that represent local government offices," the police cautioned. "Please use caution when taking unsolicited calls; never provide a credit card or bank information over the phone to an unknown person. "If you are concerned about your utility services, contact your provider via a number on your bill." Contact the Edwardsville Police Department if you have any information about this ongoing scam at (618) 656-2131.

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Philandias Calvin accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors in which he admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He still faces an assault charge.

Brentwood aldermen are planning a special meeting on Wednesday to consider adding upgrades to a playground in the Brentwood Bound project floodplain. The project has a base cost of $4.7 million, not including already purchased equipment, and $1.6 million in possible upgrades, the Post-Dispatch reported. St. Louis Post-Dispatch — Brentwood leaders want a destination playground. […]

One person was hurt and another person was arrested after a shooting Wednesday afternoon in Bethalto, Illinois.

Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday said they are delaying coming back to the state Capitol for work on a proposed income tax cut.

Dick Ford, who appeared on local airwaves on three different stations from 1965 to 2005, died Tuesday at his home in University City.

Those affected by the flooding can receive home repairs, payment assistance, updates on their application status for various services and more.

A regional Illinois school board denied the petition to switch Sorento from Bond County to the Mt. Olive School District.

The $7.5 million settlement would end a yearslong legal fight over whether Washington University mismanaged its employee retirement accounts.

This weekend in Wentzville check out the State Championships for Missouri Horse Pitching Association. 

Chattanooga, Tennessee is one of a growing number of U.S. cities to build its own broadband network. The ISP, tacked on to the city’s existing EPB electricity utility, has routinely delivered speeds faster and more affordable than the services provided by regional utilities like Comcast. While community-run broadband is portrayed as boondoggle socialism by telecom […]

A new report recognizes Washington University as the 15th best college in the nation.

St. Louis’ unkillable Loop Trolley just got another round of life support. The East-West Gateway Council of Governments voted on Wednesday to give the deeply unpopular yet surprisingly resilient transportation boondoggle an additional $1.2 million in federal grant monies after the Bi-State Development Agency requested additional funds to keep it going for the next two years. The trolley has already cost taxpayers $51 million in federal and state dollars, but local officials feared it’d all be for nothing if they failed to revive it after a three-year hiatus.

Mykel McIntosh was not planning on opening a wine bar. Though she's been honing her beverage knowledge in the industry for several years and has an infectious passion for wine, she was planning to use her gifts to support her friends, Ceaira Jackson and Misha Sampson, in their forthcoming venture, Nexus Cultural Cuisine and Craft Cocktails. Jackson and Sampson had other ideas.

A California mother and former dean of a Missouri boarding school for troubled youth were indicted last week for a scheme to take the woman's teenage son against his will and bring him to the Show Me State.

“These were the same storms that caused damage across the river in Missouri,” they told the president.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has greenlit updated Covid-19 boosters designed specifically to target the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants of the coronavirus. Moderna Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) have both been engineering such shots since late June, when the FDA asked them to develop vaccines with BA.4 and BA.5 — the subvariants of the virus' omicron variant, which have been responsible for around 400 deaths each day in the U.S. this summer — in mind. Pfizer again has…

According to documents from the city of Edwardsville, the warehouse will be built back to "pre-loss conditions."