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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."

Democratic state Auditor nominee Alan Green is the latest guest on Politically Speaking, where he discussed his campaign for state auditor with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg. Green served as a member of the state House from 2014 through the beginning of 2021. He is squaring off against state Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick in November. Fitzpatrick is planning on appearing on an episode of Politically Speaking at a later date.

A water main break in Jefferson County leads to a voluntary boil advisory.

The Missouri Supreme Court reprimanded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner Tuesday and fined her $750, finding that she violated professional misconduct rules during the investigation of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.  The …

This is—finally!—the first real picture I've taken with my new telescope. It's an image of the Iris Nebula (NGC 7023), a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It's blue thanks to the romantically named SAO 19158, the young star in the center that illuminates it. This is not a bad image, but it's not as ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

It took 29 months, but the U.S. reached its pre-Covid-19 employment total in July. But not all states have been so lucky. Here's what's happening in Missouri and Illinois.