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U2 is set to release the new album Songs of Surrender in a little over a month, and they have just shared another track from the record. The band has released their new take…

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Ste. Genevieve County residents who fear a proposed silica sand mine will drain their drinking water wells and light up the night sky with its 24-hour schedule asked a Missouri House committee on Monday to halt the project.  “We (do) not deserve to have our futures ruined because a handful of people want to make […]

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A fire in the Cahokia Heights community on Sunday claimed the life of a 69-year-old man.

Architectural Digest once called the boutique the "most beautiful independent store in Missouri." Now, its founder is starting an interior design business. Patrons used to tell her, "I want to live here." "That always ruminated in the back of my head," she said.

ST. LOUIS - Charlee Soffer, a former St. Louis resident locally known as the “St. Louis Superman,” is embarking on a new journey halfway across the country as he and his wife Colleen begin their lives together after spending years in a long-distance relationship. They are asking the public for donations to their GoFundMe fundraiser to help cover moving expenses as they start the next chapter of their story, which has so far included multiple Superman events, an emergency marriage over Zoom, and much more. Charlee’s career as St. Louis Superman began when he moved to the city after graduating from Jersey Community High School in 2005. He went to his first Superman Celebration in Metropolis the next year and became the sole pupil of Christopher Dennis, the “Hollywood Superman” who was well-known for impersonating the superhero on Hollywood Boulevard. Charlee returned to the event every year, and on his sixth year going, he met Colleen. They started

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Officers responded shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday to the 500 block of Clara Avenue for an armed robbery.

The Supreme Court — years after the ubiquity of cell phones and their cameras — has yet to provide nationwide guidance on a topic that should be considered settled: the right to record public officials while they engage in their public duties. If cops can assert anything happening on a public street has no reasonable […]

South Park's 26th season kicked off last week with a nod to St. Louis's own Big Boss Vette and her viral song "Pretty Girls Walk," which has a trending dance on TikTok. Probably even more popular than Megan Trainor's "Made You Look," it is hard to scroll through TikTok without seeing people earnestly performing the strut-heavy dance or parodying it. So naturally when South Park characters Tolkien and Kyle get TikTok famous at school, they shoot a viral video to the track in front of their lockers.

A new Bruce Springsteen song is heading to the big screen. Variety reports The Boss has written the tune “Addicted to Romance” for Rebecca Miller’s new movie She Came to Me, which stars Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway.…

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ST. LOUIS – Thousands of dogs and their owners participated in the 30th annual Purina Pet Parade through the streets of Soulard Sunday. It is the world's largest costumed pet-parade, which is also a fun event for the whole family. All funds from the $10 per pet registration fee went to Open Door Animal Sanctuary. [...]

One man died Sunday, and two men died Feb. 7.

MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Zarlenga Media Specialist 636-300-1953 ext. 4112 Dan.Zarlenga@mdc.mo.gov For immediate release: MDC announces opening of Howard Wood Urban … MoreMDC announces opening of Howard Wood Urban Outreach Office in St. Louis City

If you watched Rihanna's halftime performance during Super Bowl LVII yesterday and you're from St. Louis, you had just one thought: Becky! Rihanna's floating stage had many people across the world making Aladdin jokes, but here in St. Louis all we saw was Becky, Queen of Carpet.

Royce Martin got inspired by Scott Joplin after a visit to the Scott Joplin House in St. Louis as a teen.

ST. LOUIS -- We have two rounds of unsettled weather this week. The first will be Tuesday and the second will come Thursday. Neither one looks like an all day rain set-up, but both will bring some more gusty winds to the area. For Tuesday, I expect some quick hitting rain showers during the morning. [...]

The recent digitizing of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other major newspapers allows a reader to return to pre-Internet days. Some searches illuminate St. Louis' racist past, and how it still affects many things.