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The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

The U.S. Labor Department investigates Noble Health after former employees of its shuttered Missouri hospitals say the private equity-backed owner took money from their paychecks and then failed to fund their insurance coverage.

Max Collins, the lead singer of the band Eve 6 has penned a great piece for Popula, noting that owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance. Specifically, he’s speaking out against basically all of the major book publishers suing the Internet Archive for making it possible to check out digital copies of books. […]

Saint Louis Public Schools are rerouting some of their bus services with the new school year beginning Aug. 22. SLPS announced Monday the move will suspend routes to eight schools for the first few weeks of the school year and aims to get more bus drivers on the road. SLPS said the district is removing the schools from the routing schedule and will provide alternative transportation, to those 3,450 students. “At least for the first few weeks of school, we are providing Metro Link bus passes (or…

Business owners across the St. Louis area are getting some much needed help, after this summer's historic flooding damaged many of their livelihoods. The Small Business Administration (SBA) opened up a recovery center at the Urban League in St. Louis on Monday that will be open daily through Friday. It's help that business owners said they've been waiting for and desperately need. Melissa Ingram has to relive every single lost item that flood waters took away from her business, as she looks to…

A software integration company’s six-year legal saga against the state reached a resolution last week, when it was awarded a little over $23 million in its lawsuit alleging contract breaches over extra work to implement a Department of Social Services’ case management system. On Wednesday, Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem granted a directed verdict […]

The post Former state vendor awarded $23M in lawsuit over Missouri Medicaid system implementation appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The rates of stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles in St. Louis and nationwide have skyrocketed due to how-to videos by a Milwaukee gang that calls themselves the “Kia Boyz.”

Missouri residents may have heard ghoulish tales of “Doc Annie” Smith, a physician who performed illegal abortions in the early 1900s. Today, the truth about her work has largely disappeared.

The first bells of the school year will soon be ringing, and KidSmart STL, D.A.D.S. of STL and Krissy’s Kids Books have an assignment for the community.

The first unexpected bill arrived in December, just weeks before Tara Lovell’s husband of 40 years died from bladder cancer. Lovell worked as an ultrasound technologist at the local Audrain Community Hospital, in Mexico, Missouri, and was paying more than $400 a month for health insurance through her job. The town’s struggling hospital, the sole […]

The post Collapse of private equity-backed Missouri hospitals mired employees in medical bills appeared first on Missouri Independent.

This may come as news to many Republicans:  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a law enforcement agency. So is the Internal Revenue Service. Most people already think of the FBI as an elite policing agency. But the IRS also investigates crime beyond tax evasion and fraud. Organized crime, drug trafficking, illegal gaming, money laundering and public […]

The post Don’t claim to support law enforcement if you demonize the FBI and IRS appeared first on Missouri Independent.

It’s open season for a shift in wildlife management.

MoDOT was en route to a crash that took place early Tuesday morning.

Some 107 million Americans will experience heat index temperatures above 125 degrees F by 2053, according to a new report.

But just as their understanding of the phenomena becomes more clear, it’s starting to disappear.

This story is from Kaiser Health News. The first unexpected bill arrived in December, just weeks before Tara Lovell’s husband of 40 years died from bladder cancer.

Julian Lennon, the elder of John Lennon's two sons, says watching his late father in the acclaimed Disney+ docuseries The Beatles: Get Back made him feel close to his dad,…

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‘We sure as hell don’t owe Joe Manchin anything now,’ says one Democrat.

Stealing its central bank reserves is not going to do anything except starve innocent civilians.