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Today on TAP: Jeff Bezos won’t cut a check to prevent layoffs at The Washington Post, even after years of profits.

A new St. Louis-based startup focused on using data to speed up medical discoveries said Tuesday it has raised $6 million from investors to launch operations. It is teaming up with BJC HealthCare and Washington School of Medicine, which have both invested in the startup.

Which restroom will take the throne in a competition for America's Best Bathroom? The suspense is leaving the country on the edge of its seat.

The Missouri Supreme Court issued a formal reprimand of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner for her conduct during her 2018 investigation against former Governor Eric Greitens.

From CityScene STL:  Continuing on their quest for new developments in St. Louis, Lux Living has proposed a 7-story apartment building at 6630 Delmar on the Delmar Loop, tentatively, and apparently, named “The Bond”. You might recall that the OPUS Group planned a building here back in January 2021, but that project failed to materialize. […]

ST. LOUIS — Police on Tuesday identified a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed early Saturday in the city’s Columbus Square neighborhood.

The shooting happened just before 1:15 a.m. in the 1400 block of North 13th Street, near the edge of the Old North St. Louis and Carr Square neighborhoods.

ALTON - The City of Alton has experienced a “handful of thefts of Kia/Hyundai vehicles over a summer,” Deputy Police Chief Jarrett Ford said, commenting on a recent trend in St. Louis and across the country. The chief reported that Alton had “several unsuccessful attempted car thefts throughout the summer.” “Several of the vehicles that were stolen have since been recovered,” he said. “Various leads on the cases are still being pursued at this time.” Adam, an Alton man, who didn’t want to use his last name, said he lives in the Fifth and Sixth Street areas in Alton. He said over the past few weeks he knew of a person who had a Kia stolen and it was found, but very damaged, and he stopped the theft of a Hyundai vehicle when he confronted four individuals attempting to steal the vehicle. Adam had only one reason to contact the media, to raise awareness in Alton that they need to do something to protect those vehicles. He suggested

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Police were called to two shootings within 30 minutes Friday afternoon on the city's south side.

ST. LOUIS — Police on Tuesday released the identity of a man shot dead Friday afternoon in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Labor Day weekend is near and several events are returning to the St. Louis area. Labor Day weekend to many is looked at as the last hurrah of the summertime.

ST. LOUIS - The $222 million project to replace the Merchants Bridge that links Missouri and Illinois near downtown St. Louis is nearing completion, and the St. Louis Regional Freightway gave invited guests and the public the opportunity to see one of the last significant milestones in the project firsthand from the special vantage point of a riverboat cruise on August 26. Passengers on board witnessed history in the making as preparations continued for the third and final bridge truss to be floated into place. The installation is a crucial phase of the project underway to replace the vital rail artery across the Mississippi River, which is one of the nation’s primary east-west rail corridors serving one of America’s largest rail hubs by car interchange volume and gross tonnage. Dating back to the 1890s, the Merchants Bridge serves six Class I railroads and Amtrak as a bridge crossing across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, and replacement of the structure has been

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People are much more likely to survive on medication, but establishing a standard of care and widespread access have been slow.

Forty-three years after its founding, Cardinal Ritter celebrates astonishing accomplishments that include 100% graduation and college acceptance rates.

Could Tyler O'Neill be on the verge of another September surge? His most recent power display is coming at a critical time for the St. Louis Cardinals.

The animal control department hasn't been able to pick up strays because there's no room to hold them in the shelter.

While this ruling [PDF] is likely correct under current Fourth Amendment case law, it does raise questions about the propriety of mass data grabs that aren’t particularized to suspected criminals or investigation targets. (h/t Orin Kerr) Tennessee resident Matthew Bledsoe was recently convicted during a jury trial for his participation in the January 6, 2021 […]

Christmas came far too early—and with bad intentions—for one St. Louis County family, as a University City man threatened to burn their house down.

BELLEVUE, Neb. - A Nebraska man paddled a hollow pumpkin Saturday 38 miles down the Missouri River. Duane Hansen of Syracuse, Nebraska spent his 60th birthday breaking this world record. Before Hansen started paddling Saturday, the record was right around 30 miles. A Facebook post from the City of Bellevue, Nebraska said two city employees [...]