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He has been found and located safe by police Thursday evening.

For information and other tips to reduce the risk of wandering, reach out to the Alzheimer’s Association for resources or call their 24/7 hotline at 800-272-3900.

Workers at three St. Louis-area Starbucks stores walked off the job Thursday morning, part of a nationwide protest of what they say is illegal retaliation against their union organizing.

A St. Louis civic legend was laid to rest on Thursday.

Employees from three stores in St. Louis took to the streets to strike on Thursday.

Paul Goldschmidt has been named the NL MVP on Thursday, being announced by the last Cardinals MVP, Albert Pujols.

In 1973, just a few years after coming out as gay, Patrick Haggerty and his band Lavender Country recorded their self-titled album. It would take more than 40 years for music lovers, and a record label, to rediscover “Lavender Country,” and for it to be recognized as the first openly gay country album. But it was a second country musician, St. Louis songwriter Jack Grelle, who helped propel him back into the spotlight he deserved. Grelle joins the show to remember Patrick Haggerty, who passed away in October after a stroke.

“I can't believe there are still good people out there that would do something like this," said Jill Rechtein.

Kevin Johnson is scheduled to die by injection on Nov. 29. The 37-year-old killed Kirkwood, Missouri, Police Officer William McEntee in 2005.

With hundreds of books banned in Missouri schools this year, the removals are being newly criticized by librarians and authors, including such high-profile writers as Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Lois Lowry, Laurie Halse Anderson and Art Spiegelman.

STLPR correspondent Jason Rosenbaum discusses Senator-elect Eric Schmitt's official foray into the world of federal policymaking.

"Mr. Mathews was a man of compassion, empathy. A man who cared about the community and people in general," said Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Two men were indicted Wednesday in a murder-for-hire case that's already entangled a former employee of St. Louis' Cure Violence program.

Voters have selected Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt as the National League's Most Valuable Player of 2022. It's his first MVP honor in his 12-year MLB career.

The announcement is the latest in a flurry of deals in which Centene, a Clayton-based provider of managed care for government-sponsored health plans, has sold chunks of its business this year.

Techdirt has written many times about the dysfunctional state of academic publishing. The main issue is that academics do most of the work required to publish a paper, but the publishers reap most of the benefit. Profit margins are extremely high for top publishers — typically 30-40%. And yet academics are routinely forbidden from sharing […]

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an Endangered SILVER Advisory for a man reported missing from O'Fallon, Missouri.

A Cure Violence interrupter was previously charged with destruction of property in connection with the same homicide.

Washington University professor Philip Dybvig, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics last month, has been accused of inappropriate conduct by two former female graduate students. The allegations started circulating online not long after Dybvig's Nobel Prize win was announced. One former graduate student at Olin Business School posted her story on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media platform in Chinese.

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