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A disgruntled former Sauce on the Side employee pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to throwing Molotov cocktails at the restaurant in attempted arson. Rashaad Cotton, 25, of St. Louis County admitted that in the early evening of April 30, 2021, he threw his first Molotov cocktail of the night on a suburban street in St. Charles.

Two young refugees who resettled in St. Louis are releasing their debut album this week. Some songs are based on folk tunes from their homeland and others feature beats familiar from musical styles throughout Africa.

The cuts St. Louis County Council approved Tuesday night will only reduce next year's $41 million deficit by about $3 million to $5 million, not by more than half as council members originally hoped.

Hazelwood School District officials voted unanimously Tuesday evening to request additional testing for radioactive contamination in the district. KSDK has been following several rounds of radioactive testing inside and around Jana Elementary School and Coldwater Creek, where material from World War II bombs was dumped decades ago. There have been conflicting results reported from the independent radioactive tests. At Tuesday’s school board meeting, Hazelwood district officials decided all of…

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville High boys basketball junior guard Malik Allen had one of his best games of the season on Dec. 10 in the Scott Credit Union Edwardsville Shootout, leading the Tigers with 19 points as Edwardsville defeated Mary Institute-Country Day of Ladue, Mo., 55-50, dealing the Rams their first loss of the season. The Tigers all played well and worked hard throughout the game, getting key baskets when they needed them. It was a very good bounce-back win also, as Edwardsville came back from a couple of tough Southwestern Conference losses earlier in the week to both O'Fallon and Belleville East. Allen is an iCAN Clinic Male Athlete of the Month for the Tigers. "I'm feeling pretty good," Allen said in a postgame interview. "I'm glad we got the win and we're going to keep working hard, the season's not over. That was a tough loss last night (to East), so we wanted to make sure we came out big tonight and come out with a win and we did that." The win over a previously

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The unidentified man was discovered dead in the 4600 block of Whisper Lake Drive about 9:30 p.m. Monday.

For several years we’ve noted how most of the calls to ban TikTok are bad faith bullshit made by a rotating crop of characters that not only couldn’t care less about consumer privacy, but are directly responsible for the privacy oversight vacuum TikTok (and everybody else) exploits. Right on cue, Texas Senator Marco Rubio and […]

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The St. Louis County Council on Tuesday passed bills that comprise roughly a $1 billion budget for 2023, while policymakers warn of threats to key reserve funds. To complete the budget, the council tapped the county's reserve funds to help cover a $40 million deficit, St. Louis Public Radio reports. Policymakers are warning that elected officials need to find a way to close the deficit, which threatens to eventually exhaust the county's reserve funding, according to the report. By year's end, St.…

A St. Louis board has endorsed tax incentives for a $300 million plan to redevelop downtown St. Louis’ long-vacant former AT&T building.

The city said it was prepared to announce its next police chief on Wednesday, with just two candidates left in the running.

A woman dropped off a holiday card at Hinchcliffe Elementary School in O'Fallon, Illinois. It had $200 in it and an unsigned note to use the money for lunch debt.

U.S. Army Corps testing at Jana Elementary found no harmful radiation, but people in the area tell the I-Team they're still worried.

For Bryan Turner, September 27 began like any other day. Turner, 41, is a creature of habit.

When inmates in Missouri’s prisons pose a security threat, they sometimes are served a loaf-like concoction that one state lawmaker says she wouldn’t feed to a dog.

ST. LOUIS — The judge presiding over the effort to overturn Lamar Johnson's conviction and life sentence said Tuesday that the testimony of a star witness in Johnson's murder trial nearly 30 years ago was "almost a textbook case of…

Members of a U.S. House committee disagreed at a Tuesday hearing about whether more aggressive federal regulation would have protected customers from the collapse of cryptocurrency firm FTX and the alleged fraud of its founder, Samuel Bankman-Fried. Lawmakers at the four-hour House Financial Services Committee hearing appeared to view the unfolding scandal around Bankman-Fried, arrested […]

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