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The Red Hot Chili Peppers family is getting bigger. Bassist Flea tells E! News that his wife, fashion designer Melody Ehsani, has given birth to their first baby together. The…

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GLEN CARBON - Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois (GSofSI) is excited about a $5,000 grant for an upcoming six-week program and said it looks forward to partnering with American Water to deliver a new STEAM (STEM + Art) learning series. "Thanks to a $5,000 grant from American Water, Girl Scouts program and community outreach staff will host a six-week program titled, “It’s Your Planet – Love It!” for K-5 students in East St. Louis, Cahokia, and Belleville," the Girl Scouts said. "Girl Scouts there will learn about water conservation, water management, watersheds, hydroelectric power, and more."

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Sigh. Look. I want to stop writing about Twitter. I want to write about lots of other stuff. I have a huge list of other stories that I’m trying to get through, but then Elon Musk does something dumb again, and people run wild with it, and (for reasons that perplex me) much of the […]

AAA expects 2 million people are expected to hit the roads in Missouri between Dec. 23 and the end of the year.

There's a reason Indigenous groups are calling for a boycott of the film.

With the winter storm approaching, some groceries should be stored in the pantry in case it is unsafe to travel. 

St. Louis City SC will make its league debut on Feb. 25, and the first home game will be March 4.

This holiday season, pick up some packages of international desserts from Welcome Neighbor STL, an organization that helps immigrant and refugee families in St. Louis. The dessert packages are prepared by refugee chefs and proceeds go to benefit the chefs' families. The packages each contain six Syrian baklava with pistachios and walnuts, six Moroccan coconut macaroons, and six Afghan semolina sugar cookies.

Today on TAP: With organizing campaigns and strikes on the rise, Congress finally proposes to increase funding for the NLRB—for the first time since 2014.

Dave Grohl dug up the rarity "Marigold" during a performance on a concert stream Monday supporting the Chicago charity program Letters to Santa. "Marigold," as Grohl fanatics will tell you,…

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The season begins in late February and runs through October, with the home opener in St. Louis on March 4, 2023.

QuikTrip had wanted to build a convenience store on Olive Boulevard.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY - On Friday, December 16, 2022, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued charges on suspects Keyshaun Carmel, 20 years of age, of the 400 block of Northridge Drive in St. Louis, Missouri 63137, for Resisting Arrest and Tampering and with a Motor Vehicle Second Degree, and Khalub Perkins, 18 years of age, of the 400 block of Northridge Drive in St. Louis, Missouri 63137, for Tampering with a Motor Vehicle Second Degree. Booking photos of Carmel and Perkins are included. Carmel is being held on $25,000 cash only, no 10% bond. Perkins is being held on $10,000 cash only, no 10% bond. A 16-year-old juvenile was charged in St. Louis County Family Court with Resisting Arrest and Tampering First Degree. Please note, charges are merely an accusation and Defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law. The probable cause statement for Carmel reads: The defendant was the backseat passenger of a gray in color, 2020 Acura

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TC Energy has established a no-fly zone over the Kansas site where its Keystone pipeline spilled 14,000 barrels of oil following drone footage of the disaster. The Canadian company said in a statement that it did so for safety reasons. But drone footage of the spill — the largest in the pipeline’s history — was among the only means of seeing […]

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As we reported, Shirley Watts, widow of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, passed away December 16, and now Charlie’s bandmate Ronnie Wood is paying tribute to her. Next to a picture of a young…

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Major League Soccer released the 2023 schedule on Tuesday

Federal, state, and local authorities in Franklin County are asking for the public's help to find a fugitive who is wanted for child sex trafficking.

It's official, it's going to get way too cold in St. Louis this holiday weekend. This morning, the City of St. Louis issued an alert stating that winter storm and wind chill watches will be in effect starting Thursday at 6 p.m. The alert warns that we could see between 1 and 3 inches of snow (or maybe even more) and starting Friday have wind gusts as high as 50 mph.