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Longtime teacher Jean Kuczka, 61, and sophomore student Alexandria Bell, 15, died in a shooting Monday at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis.

Republicans worked with Democrats to evaluate proposals over the past four months, and some projects got support from unlikely sources.

This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American culture from the 1960s to

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On Sept. 16, Everything Is Golden, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based artist Lizzy Martinez, opens as the first exhibition of the 2022-2023 Millstone Gallery season at COCA. In the

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The development will include apartments and multiple subdivisions of single-family houses, with new retail sites lining Tesson Ferry Road.

The family of the Orlando Harris is heartbroken and cooperating with the investigation, authorities say.

Yesterday, a St. Louis County jury found a father and son guilty of assault after a game of Pokémon Go got out of hand in Kirkwood Park in 2018. Robert Matteuzzi, 75, and Angelo Matteuzzi, 33, were on a Pokémon Go team competing in Kirkwood Park when they got into an argument with an individual who, according to the Post-Dispatch, played under the name “Sammy the Bull.” Pokémon Go is a game where players collect virtual assets in different real life locations. The players were on different teams trying to collect the same virtual assets and began arguing.

Albert Pujols played his final season of baseball this year and finished out his career in a St. Louis Cardinals jersey, the same one he started in. Honors have poured in for the slugger, and next month the Musial Awards will give Pujols its highest honor: a Lifetime Achievement Award for Sportsmanship. But before that, he has gotten something some may argue is a little bit better: his own cereal.

The president of the union representing more than 6,000 railroad signalmen said members voted down a national agreement because they want additional paid sick leave.

New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and installations transform familiar objects into

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Flood recovery assistance is available at two new Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery centers in the Metro East. Food victims in Illinois will be able to get disaster recovery help from the federal government, starting Friday. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden approved Illinois’ application for FEMA aid. Two disaster recovery centers will open to help people with the process of applying for federal government assistance. Those centers will be located at the Clyde Jordan…

"This is just so hard. My aunt should still be here," Jean Kuczka's niece said.

The Elm Point Wellfield in St. Charles has been contaminated by hazardous chemicals, according to the mayor of St. Charles. In a press conference Wednesday, Mayor Dan Borgmeyer said the drinking water in the city is safe, but he said steps need to be taken to keep it that way. “I am concerned about the long-term viability to be able to provide safe drinking water to our citizens is at risk,” Borgmeyer said. The Elm Point Wellfield is the primary drinking water supply source for the city of…

Early in the pandemic, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), which gives low income Americans a $50 discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave money to ISPs, which then doled out discounts to users — if they qualified. But (and I’m sure this will be a surprise […]

The 18th district was Missouri's most competitive state Senate race in 2006. Now, it's not on the radar of either political party. We examine why the northeast Missouri district has transformed from ultra-competitive to ultra-Republican.

A school in the Kirkwood district will hold a ribbon-cutting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

Ameren says its customers could see significant economic benefits as a result of the newly passed federal Inflation Reduction Act, according to new filings from the St. Louis-based electric utility.

Mayor wants EPA to require Ameren to upgrade city water treatment plant and to move city wells because of contamination decades ago from an Ameren substation.

Election Day is less than two weeks away.

Monday's shooting also resulted in the formation of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens.