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Ameren Missouri plans to add more renewable energy and speed its transition to net-zero carbon emissions, the company announced Thursday. But its plan also calls for building a large natural gas power plant in about 10 years.  The St. Louis-based electric utility filed an updated integrated resource plan with Missouri regulators after a federal judge […]

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Last week we wrote about a truly silly bill, introduced by a bunch of Republican Senators, that would basically ban email providers from letting political mailings go to spam. It’s quite a move to make it a key part of your political platform that politicians need to get special rights to spam people, but, alas, […]

The Missouri State Highway Patrol continue investigating a deadly crash in Bridgeton on Thursday afternoon.

Today on TAP: A new ruling striking down most blue-state gun regulation is utter nonsense.

Details have been unveiled for the second annual Monsters on the Mountain festival, a three-day hard-rock extravaganza that will take place August 19-21 at The Gatlinburg Convention Center in Gatlinburg,…

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CHICAGO — Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, a force in Illinois politics, is moving his company’s headquarters from Chicago to Miami.

"When I scratched it off, I thought it was a fake ticket. I couldn’t believe it!”

An official said he "never got a straight answer" from the mayor or county executive on whether to restart a Board of Freeholders, which could alter the two governments' structures.

Defendant warned "there will be blood" for the arrest of a felon who possessed a firearm.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Sheena Greitens’ attorney asked a judge Thursday to direct her ex-husband Eric Greitens to issue a public statement denouncing threats made since his Senate campaign published a video depicting him toting a gun and hunting his political opponents. Associate Circuit Judge Leslie Schneider was presented with printouts of two threats.  One was […]

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Two children were taken to St. Louis Children's Hospital. The 3-year-old boy died after suffering severe brain damage from the bullet.

Easy-to-use GrandPad tablets are available for loan to St. Louis County Library card holders age 75 and up. Applications are available at slcl.org.

Jeff Beck has released a new instrumental version of the 1966 Beach Boys gem "Caroline, No" as the latest advance track from 18, his upcoming collaborative album with actor/rocker Johnny Depp, which…

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Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine briefly speaks on founding bassist David Ellefson's departure from the band in a new interview with Rolling Stone. Ellefson, who formed Megadeth with Mustaine in 1983,…

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen : “Every day, parents across America are burying children they have lost to gun violence. And yet, as our nation still mourns the horrific massacres in Uvalde and Buffalo, and as we work to combat the daily toll of the gun violence epidemic in cities like Chicago, this decision will make it even easier for guns to flood our streets. “For years, the gun lobby has told us the way to reduce gun violence is not to pass new gun laws, but to enforce the laws already on the books. At the same time, the gun lobby has been arguing in court to strike down those gun laws on the books. Today, they succeeded. This decision makes it all the more important for Congress to take actionable steps to protect our kids and communities from this nation’s

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WASHINGTON — Today, the Postal Service announced it will implement upgraded service standards for its USPS Retail Ground (RG) and Parcel Select Ground (PSG) products effective Aug. 1, 2022. Within the contiguous United States, service standards for these products will be accelerated from two- to eight days to two- to five days for the same affordable price. Items containing hazardous materials or live animals are not eligible for the upgraded service standards. RG is a ground shipping product for packages, thick envelopes, and tubes (with a maximum weight of 70 pounds) that are not required to be mailed via First-Class Mail service and are available only through retail channels. PSG is an economical ground delivery service similar to RG for commercial shippers. The Postal Service is aligning the RG and PSG service standards with the current First-Class Package Service (FCPS) standards within the contiguous US. Processing this mail with FCPS packages will enhance customer service

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Over the past week, three St. Louis-area Starbucks stores have celebrated union victories. At one store, though, the unionization effort failed. On June 13, employees at a Bridgeton Starbucks voted against unionizing in a 9 to 14 tally.