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People across the St. Louis area are coming together to heal as the community mourns the lives lost during a deadly shooting at a south city high school.

Bill and Hillary Clinton made tribute videos for a memorial of longtime Centene CEO Michael Neidorff that was held Sunday. The event, at Graham Chapel at Washington University, attracted major players in St. Louis' business, civic and philanthropy spaces.

Rainy conditions and excessive speed contributed to a deadly crash Sunday morning on Interstate 270 in north St. Louis County.

We have some genuine good news tonight—though it was a close call: Voters in Brazil on Sunday ousted President Jair Bolsonaro after just one term and elected the leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to replace him, election officials said, a rebuke to Mr. Bolsonaro’s far-right movement and his divisive four years in ...continue reading "The Brazilian Donald Trump lost reelection tonight"

Beginning Tuesday, Planned Parenthood will take over the former Tri-Rivers Family Planning center in Rolla. The Title X health center will offer contraceptives, pregnancy tests and other reproductive health services to residents throughout Missouri. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Colleen McNicholas and nurse practitioner Hailey Kramer discuss their hopes for the new center.

Dinner table conversations are getting deeper than a simple “How was your day?” after last week’s school shooting in our own backyard.

Throughout the weekend, proceeds from sales at five different comic book shops were collected to directly benefit the CVPA families and victims.

Despite widespread vaccine availability last winter, we still saw a massive spike in COVID-19 cases, driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. Will this year be different?

A few coaches in a boys winter high school sport in Illinois are concerned about its future after this academic year, even if the governing body says it will return.

Will the BattleHawks soar once more? Or will the St. Louis franchise have a new name?

More pics at: https://www.randymanning.com/Bus-or-Treat ALTON - The Bus or Treat Halloween event late last week brought out bus drivers dressed in costumes with an abundance of children in attendance. Once again the Bus Or Treat was a large success. Brandi Williams, a recruiter/trainer/bus driver for Illinois Central with a 4525 Alby location, was the coordinator of the Bus Or Treat event. “I started this last year, and we ran with it again this year,” Williams said. “I kept seeing all the trunk-or-treats and I wanted to have one that used buses instead of cars.” Williams said one of her main goals for the event was to share the Halloween spirit with children and also show the community the bus company and drivers want to be involved and are not just a bus company. “There were a lot of great costumes and I think the children had a lot of fun,” Williams added.

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Average wait times for Missouri Medicaid applicants fell in September below the federally allowed maximum for the first time in nearly a year. According to Missouri’s Department of Social Services’ most recent publicly-available data, the state took 41 days on average to process a Medicaid application in September for the eligibility group which includes low-income children, pregnantContinue reading "Medicaid application wait times average 41 days, the lowest in nearly a year"