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A 42-year-old has been charged in connection with a shooting outside Normandy High School following a prep football game.

Diane Ravitch points us to a new study from Paul Peterson and Danish Shakeel that takes a look at student achievement over the past 50 years: Our data consist of more than 7 million student test scores on 160 intertemporally linked math and reading tests administered to nationally representative samples of U.S. student cohorts born ...continue reading "New study says American students are improving. Are they?"

Despite the late washout, organizers were thrilled to have the festival back at its original location at Tower Grove Park. They estimate around 100,000 people turned out for the festival.

A performance stage at a new park in Pasadena, California, the city where Alex Van Halen and the late Eddie Van Halen grew up, will be named after the brothers'…

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FEMA has helped more than 6,700 Missourians and approved more than $22.6 million in grants, since responding to the historic rainfall and flooding.

Both voter ID and a law expanding protections for sexual assault victims are now in place.

A historic former church in Carlinville, Illinois, is being sold as a fully-renovated private residence.

Showers and storms are forming along and ahead of a cold front that is moving into the St. Louis region.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday defended former President Trump in the wake of an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property but noted Trump “should have turned over all” of the classified documents authorities said he kept after he left the White House.

Pics from this article (and gallery) may be purchased for personal use at: https://www.randymanning.com/Alton-Food-Trucks ALTON - The annual Alton Food Truck Festival Saturday presented by Sauce Magazine at the Liberty Bank Alton Amphitheater had perfect weather and those present seemed to enjoy the wide variety of eating options. Dan Herkert, chair of the Liberty Bank Alton Amphitheater Commission, said he couldn't have asked for more at this year's food truck festival. “We had great weather, it was warm, but not too hot,” he said. “People were patient in line, but the lines moved quickly. After eight years of having the food truck festival, people know the food will be great and they have to be a little patient. The Groovethang band was again wonderful. They pretty much hit every type of music from the 1970s to the 2000s. The Food Truck Festival is a great event, people love to come here and eat and hang out with friends and family on the Alton riverfront.”

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A Blue Springs man was sentenced to 15 years in State prison after pleading guilty to several accounts Friday according to the Jackson County Prosector's office.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released the crash report detailing Saturday’s deadly boat crash at the 13-mile mark of the main channel at Lake of the Ozarks.