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Good for Body and Soul I slurped my first bowl of matzo ball soup when I was 40-some years old. It was at Westwood and our host insisted that those at our table each have a bowl. I wasn’t sure. But after inhaling the heavenly aroma and downing several spoonsful, I was hooked. Our host... 

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A large crowd gathered at the crime scene, and police issued an "officer in need of aid" call summoning backup.

Kenton Klein’s decision to become a fourth-generation owner of St. Louis steel fabrication company Atlas Iron Works wasn’t part of a succession plan. As his father, Dick Klein, ran Atlas as the third-generation owner, Kenton Klein forged his own entrepreneurial path, launching and operating IT company Healthy PC. But in recent years, as Dick Klein approached retirement, Kenton Klein says his “heartstrings started pulling” as he considered the future of the century-old firm. Today, Klein…

More than 300 locations across Missouri, Illinois and Iowa will offer 40 cents off per gallon of fuel between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. local time.

In the first week of legal sports wagering in Kansas, more than 100,000 Missourians found out how precise online location tools have become when they were blocked from making bets. How many more crossed the border – or went to any of the other four legal sports wagering states adjoining Missouri to make bets – […]

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St. Louis-based consulting firm i5Group proposed three ideas for redeveloping the old Jamestown Mall site in Florissant.

Consolidated Terminal Plan (CTP) and West Airfield Program (WAP) move forward from planning into environmental phase

O’FALLON - A new law will go into effect on January 1, 2023 that will require all homes in Illinois to be equipped with new, 10-year “sealed-battery” smoke alarms, which are designed to last longer, lower replacement costs, and be less of a nuisance when cooking. State and local fire safety experts held a press conference at O’Fallon Fire Rescue yesterday to explain the new law. Margaret Vaughn, the Government Affairs Director for both the Illinois Firefighters Association and Fire Safety Alliance, said the law aims to reduce preventable deaths. “Last year in Illinois, there were 97 residential fire deaths, and the majority of those deaths occurred in homes without working smoke alarms - so the majority of those deaths potentially could have been prevented,” Vaughn said. Since 1988, all Illinois homes have been required to have smoke alarms installed - they were hard-wired into homes built in 1988 or after. If your home was built before 1988

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Ice has caused a new accident in North City at the intersection of Adelaide and Hall,

Yes, Virginia, there is a really good fruitcake.

The cities of St. Louis and O’Fallon, Missouri, are considering a 3% sales tax on recreational marijuana, that’s in addition to the state's 6%. St. Louis Ward 12 Alderman Bill Stephens said the money from the sales tax would go into the general fund. "I think we're all aware of the declining population of the city. That means a shrinking tax base. So I think in a lot of ways, this 3% tax could absolutely be a much-needed lifeline for the city's operations,” Stephens said. If the Board of…

We’ve written a bunch of posts concerning KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act, which is one of those moral panic kinds of bills that politicians and the media love to get behind, without really understanding what they mean, or the damage they’d do. We’ve covered how it will lead to greater surveillance of children (which […]

In North City, there is a patch of ice at Adelaide and Hall St. A crash occurred on this ice.

SkyFox has arrived in Bridgeton, west of Highway 70. There is what appears like a two-vehicle crash. One car is beat up, while the other appears to be a trash truck partly off the road.

Johnson was convicted of murder in 1995. He has maintained his innocence. A hearing is underway in St. Louis that will determine if Johnson was wrongfully prosecuted.

The 48-year-old was charged in early December with his third DWI since 2010.