ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County Police Chief Kenneth Gregory announced Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, a steady decline in major crimes within the department’s jurisdiction, with an overall 8.5 percent reduction in major offenses in 2025 compared to the previous year. The department reported significant decreases across nearly all crime categories, including a 9.6 percent drop in homicides and a 10.5 percent decline in aggravated assaults. Crimes against persons fell by 6.6 percent.
Dave Grohl will join pop star Ed Sheeran to perform the song "Drive" on Wednesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!The Foo Fighters frontman plays drums on the track, which was recorded…
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Department of Health has ended its search for vervet monkeys reportedly seen in the northern part of the city and is now focusing on enforcing local ordinances that prohibit the ownership of non-human primates. The decision was announced Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, following several resident reports of monkey sightings beginning Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, near a northern city park. Despite deploying Animal Care and Control officers and increasing patrols after additional
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — On a Saturday night in Springfield, a line of queer kids snakes into a scene lit like a VHS memory. This is “Closet Space,” a micro-budget dating game show and community-grown media experiment. Lindsey Goodhart, the show’s creator, grew up in St. Louis, came to Missouri State University (MSU) in 2020, and [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared likely Tuesday to keep in place laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams. The outcomes from the nation’s highest court expected later this year could have sweeping implications for transgender rights more broadly as President Donald Trump’s […]
I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of “disinformation telephone” gets played. Let’s walk through it, because understanding how this works is important. The game works like this: Someone […]
PIASA — Maci Timpe, a senior libero for the Southwestern Piasa Birds, concluded her volleyball career in the fall of 2025 after demonstrating consistent improvement throughout the season. Timpe’s development on the court earned her recognition as the Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for the Piasa Birds. Southwestern head girls volleyball coach Derek Dempsey praised Timpe’s growth, noting her enhanced ability to read angles and anticipate plays
Some new music from Bryan Adams is on the way.The rocker announced that he’s contributed three songs to the soundtrack of the new animated film Charlie the Wonderdog, with the…
Gov. Mike Kehoe wants voters to determine whether Missouri should completely phase out its income tax and replace it with an expanded sales tax, leaving details on how to do it for lawmakers to decide next year. Kehoe laid out the plan in his annual State of the State address to a joint session of […]
One person is dead and two others are hurt after a crash Tuesday afternoon on a Jefferson County highway, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
In an email last week, Saint Louis University demographer Ness Sandoval said new federal projections confirm a demographic shift already affecting the St. Louis region and much of the country. Citing the Congressional Budget Office’s The Demographic Outlook: 2026–2056, Sandoval highlighted a key finding from the report: starting in 2030, annual deaths in the United […]
From Construction Dive: Construction job openings jumped in November after hitting an “extraordinarily low level” in October, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Construction employers reported 292,000 job openings on the last day of November, up 90,000 from October and 15,000 higher than the same […]
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 Board of Education learned more about the district’s ridership audit amid conversations about changing the school start times and transitioning to a seven-period day at the high school. Over the past year, community members have advocated for and against changing the start times to accommodate seven class periods in high school students’ schedules. During their work session on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, Interim Superintendent