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Bob Dylan has recorded updated versions of some of his well-known songs with acclaimed producer T Bone Burnett in conjunction with Burnett's plans to introduce a new ultra-high-fidelity audio format,…

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David and Jerri Hoffmann have invested $150 million and acquired more than two dozen properties since the start of 2021. Now they're focused on some centerpiece construction projects, including a five-star hotel. Changed August to Augusta.

As it prepares later this year to launch its newly created crop, the St. Louis startup has inked a commercial partnership with an agriculture giant that involves using its crop to create renewable fuels.

Conservative Republican Emory Melton, R-Cassville, a state senator from 1973 to 1997, didn’t like it when new programs with ongoing costs ended up in Missouri’s budget.  “There’s nothing that approaches …

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is calling on Amazon to improve its severe weather emergency procedures following a tornado struck its warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, and killed six people.

The goal is for the 97-acre campus in the St. Louis Place neighborhood at Jefferson and Cast avenues to open in 2025.

An unusual defense has arisen in a high-profile murder trial in St. Louis County. Beau Rothwell is accused of killing Jennifer Rothwell in November 2019. Rothwell, who was pregnant at the time, was 28.

Hey, finally time for a little bit of good news in the world of free speech: the Kentucky General Assembly recently passed the Kentucky Uniform Public Expression Protection Act. It’s a kind of anti-SLAPP bill that is based on a model bill, the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA), and similar to a bill passed […]

This is the interior of a subway car on the LA Metro. If I were, say, Cindy Sherman, the MOMA label next to this photo would explain how COVID masks were used to immediately mark the era as late capitalism; the Foot Locker bags connect the metro to modern consumerism; and the height of the ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

Not all heroes wear capes, but all beers have labels — and 4 Hands Brewing Company (1220 S 8th Street, 314-436-1559) just gave their State Wide hazy pale ale a makeover in celebration of Free Comic Book Day. The label plays on the theme of comic books and superheroes. Free Comic Book Day, which happens May 7, offers up — you guessed it — free comics in order to bring in new customers to stores and raise money for St. Louis Public Libraries.

On a September afternoon last year, a state child welfare investigator drove into Alto Pass, a village in the rolling hills of Southern Illinois, to the home Alan Schott shared with his then-girlfriend and his two daughters. Someone had called the state’s child abuse hotline, claiming that Schott was neglecting the girls.

Lawmakers ponder absurd reality that if a detainee isn’t on death row, a provable case of innocence isn’t enough to free them from prison.

ALTON - This is the 47 th move of my lifetime. I have lived in four different states and the Philippines. My work has taken me all over the world including Canada, China, South Korea, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Sweden. I purchased a home here in September of 2021 and have announced to everyone that I have found my FOREVER HOME in Alton, Illinois. I am now officially an Alton Ambassador. I like the more formal term “doyen” meaning dean or elder member of a community. I also find it funny that the local pot shop uses the term when hiring new employers to become doyens of dope. Ah, language is another great joy of my life along with music and reading. People ask me repeatedly “why did you move to Alton?” I have whittled my response to six simple words: People, potential, and the Mighty Mississippi. In that order. I find the people of Alton to be extremely friendly. The potential of Alton, Illinois, is like electricity flowing from a cut

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If you attend any shows on the Metal Tour of the Year, keep an eye out for Dave Mustaine in the crowd. During the recent stop on the run, the…

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Magic Mini Golf will have an indoor, year-round 18-hole mini golf course, two lanes of shuffleboard and a 16-foot Ferris wheel acquired from The Muny.

Centene expects to reduce over half of its domestic leased real estate footprint, said Andrew Asher, the corporation's executive vice president and chief financial officer.

But the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Shamed Dogan, failed on a 60-77 vote.