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The privately held company is adding a new dimension to its holdings west of St. Louis, where it has invested more than $150 million in a wine- and golf-focused venture to turn the Augusta area into a tourism destination.

This is an aerial view of the Rampion wind farm about ten miles off the coast of Sussex in Great Britain. It generates 400 MW of electricity.

Centene will suffer an estimated $4 billion drop in premium revenue due to losing the Medicaid managed care contract in Los Angeles County and other California counties, but the Clayton health care giant's CEO said the result "doesn't point to some structural issue in our business development team."

A woman won $50,000 through a Powerball drawing after she purchased a Quick Pick ticket in St. Peters.

Frequent flyers at St. Louis Lambert International Airport have noticed post-Covid gaps in its domestic coverage, fueled by pilot and other personnel shortages. The airport's leader, though, says one important nonstop route is coming back in January.

Bread and Roses Missouri’s “2022 Workers’ Opera: Our Stories United Will Never Be Divided” premieres September 23.

Sarah Bryan Miller is the subject of a new documentary, “The Places Music Has Taken Me,” which will air on KETC (Channel 9).

To mark the occasion, the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team will be on hand, and there will be five special-shaped hot air balloons, including an 80-foot birthday cake.

CARLINVILLE - Dick Spohr still remembers the events of the early morning of Sunday, Sept. 13, 1987. “The police department called my home before midnight,” said Spohr, the former Carlinville High School principal. “I pulled on some clothes and drove out to the school. I ended up wearing those clothes for a day and a half.” Tuesday marks the 35th anniversary of the fire that swept through the high school building in Carlinville, ravaging the third story. The first and second stories suffered massive smoke and water damage. The origin of the fire was traced to the attic between the third story and the roof of the structure, built in 1921. “Today’s students don’t always know much about the fire, and some haven’t even heard of it,” said Pat Drew, the current Carlinville High School principal who was a sophomore in 1987. “But all of us who were there remember it very well.” Many recall the community response to the fire

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It’s a tale as old as time. Two companies look to merge, and promise regulators that the new super-union will create unlimited, untold synergies. They insist repeatedly the consolidation most certainly won’t raise prices, and that the megadeal will absolutely in no way result in layoffs. Regulators rubber-stamp the deal, then, like clockwork, all of […]

On April 6, 2000, Pujols was the third baseman and cleanup hitter for the Class-A Peoria Chiefs. Six of his teammates from that game are marveling at his 2022 run.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) -- With the general election two months away, both Democrats and Republicans are in attack mode. Republicans in particular are using certain legislature--House BIll 3653, or the SAFE-T Act--to motivate voters. But there are many claims floating around about what the bill actually does or does not do. WMBD's digital producer Maggie [...]

Most of the time, the "headline" CPI is reported as the rise in prices over the past year. For example, one year ago the CPI stood at 273.1; today the BLS reported that in August 2022 it was at 295.6. That's an increase of 8.2%. But prices have been flat for the past two months. ...continue reading "Here’s how best to look at inflation"

Sports Classics owner Dick Zitzmann tells FOX 2 that Pujols' 697th home run ball could go for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction.

Today on TAP: The senator’s bill to create a nationwide abortion ban may look to him like ‘moderation,’ but that’s not how most voters will perceive it.

Paul McCartney is speaking out in support of a campaign by PETA's Indian branch to have an allegedly abused elephant sent to a rescue center. PETA India claims that a…

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Before talking about St. Louis’ 911 system, Jia Lian Yang took a temperature check of the crowd. “One sound that expresses how you feel, on the count of three,” Yang said. “1-2-3.”

by Caresse Jackman, Gray TV/Investigate TV, and Aliyya Swaby and Annie Waldman, ProPublica

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For all the recent focus on voting rights, little attention has been paid to one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America: the effort to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read — a group that now amounts to about 48 million Americans, or more than a fifth of the adult population.

Across the country, from California to Georgia, people like Olivia Coley-Pearson and Faye Combs are working to help citizens with low literacy skills exercise their constitutional right to vote, but doing so requires fighting through stigma and increased restrictions on accessibility.

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While new voting restrictions in states like Florida, Texas and Georgia do not all target voters who struggle to read, they make it especially challenging for these voters to get help casting ballots. ProPublica analyzed the voter turnout in 3,000 counties and found that places with lower estimated literacy rates tended to also have lower turnout.

See for yourself: For the launch of its Right to Read series, ProPublica partnered with Gray TV’s Investigate TV team, which produced the segment above.

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EDWARDSVILLE – The U.S. Department of Labor awarded Madison County and the St. Louis region workforce innovation areas a four-year,$5.8 million grant to be a part of the Apprenticeship Building America program. “We are thrilled with this announcement from the Department of Labor to be able to launch the Gateway Registered Apprenticeship Programs Hub,” Employment and Training Director Tony Fuhrmann said. Fuhrmann said the Gateway Hub, which includes six local workforce innovation areas —Madison County Employment and Training, St. Clair County Intergovernmental Grants Department, City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, St. Charles County and the Jefferson/Franklin Consortium in Missouri — received $5,819,104 in ABA grant funding. The project aims to register at least 750 new apprentices across the region and represents the first joint initiative between Illinois and Missouri workforce areas, Fuhrmann said “These Local Workforce Innovation Areas serve

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