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3 major manufacturing plants coming to the St. Louis area – KSDK
$430M factory in south St. Louis will produce component of lithium batteries – FOX 2
International company plans $400M electric battery factory in St. Louis – KSDK
New $400M plant to support EV battery production slated for St. Louis’ Carondelet area – stltoday.com
St. Louis-based manufacturing plant receives grant to build battery components – FOX 2
Reports Say Tesla Leases Huge Nearly 700,000-Square-Foot Warehouse In Pontoon Beach For Future – RiverBender
St. Louis company Build-A-Bear expands to cruises and online sales – stltoday.com
Century-old St. Louis business to be sold to public company – KSDK
Grant’s Farm, under family control, looks to boost attendance, be ‘self-sustaining’ – KSDK
Restaurants
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Lalo’s Grill & Pizza opens in Maryland Heights – St. Louis Magazine
Taqueria Morita Will Move Into Winslow’s Table This Winter – RFT
This St. Louis-area restaurant just won one of the nation’s biggest barbeque competitions. Here’s what comes next – KSDK
Hi-Pointe Drive-In spinoff concept to open Sunday in Ballwin – FOX 2
Hi-Pointe Drive-In spinoff opening this weekend in Ballwin – St. Louis Magazine
Hi-Pointe’s spin-off concept, A Little Hi, will open Oct. 23 in Ballwin – feastmagazine.com
Sweetie Pie’s auctioning off assets weeks after St. Louis restaurant closes doors – FOX 2
Restaurants like The Fatted Calf? – r/StLouis
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Nestlé USA Announces Voluntary Recall of NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® STUFFED Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Fudge Filling Products – RiverBender
What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
The Chili Time of the Year – Good Food St. Louis
Sugarwitch now open in Carondelet, featuring ice cream sandwiches and novelties, coffee and more – feastmagazine.com
‘Global Munchies’ Subscription Lets You Get Your Snack On – RFT
Foodscaping is the new landscaping in St. Louis – KSDK
Neighborhoods
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Stan Kroenke Loses a Chunk of The Money He Married Into – RFT
Kroenke ordered to pay $571 million of Rams settlement – r/StLouis
Two years after launching The Missouri Independent, we’re still detectives for the people – Missouri Independent
5 Missouri destinations make TripSavvy’s 2022 Editors’ Choice list – FOX 2
JB Marine Receives AEU Safety Award – The Waterways Journal
Missouri’s Elephant Rocks voted America’s 3rd favorite natural landmark – FOX 2
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Corps to conduct further testing at contaminated school – FOX 2
Hazelwood to close Jana Elementary School – stlamerican.com
Jana Elementary parent describes years of stonewalling by the government – FOX 2
US Army Corps to test Jana Elementary for radiation starting Monday – KSDK
Gun safety education begins next week for some St. Louis schools – FOX 2
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Here’s who is eligible and where to get the monkeypox vaccine in St. Louis region – KSDK
Police
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Alton Police Department Receives More Than $500,000 In Grant Funding – RiverBender
Calverton Park Police Department partnering with car dealership to stop car thefts – FOX 2
Illinois State Police Trooper Struck And Two Fatalities In Two Separate Scott’s Law Related Crashes Less Than An Hour Apart – RiverBender
Local police chief facing drug charges after man overdoses, dies inside apartment – KSDK
Missouri police chief, girlfriend face drug dealing charges – KSDK
Small-town Missouri police chief, his girlfriend charged after overdose death at home – FOX 2
St. Louis residents dig up remains after failed police search; department apologizes – stltoday.com
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$30K COVID-19 mortgage relief reopened in Illinois – FOX 2
Animal rescue advocate sues St. Louis County alleging illegal destruction of records – stltoday.com
Kampsville Mayor Gibson, Village Clerk, Treasurer, Board Member, All Resign On October 17 – RiverBender
St. Louis Public Schools, Confluence Academies to add gun safety lessons to curriculums – KSDK
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What IDs are now accepted at Missouri polling places? – FOX 2
Missouri district defends response to slavery petition – FOX 2
Missouri Highway Patrol says it didn’t OK marijuana legalization ad featuring agency – stltoday.com
Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents – Missouri Independent
Missouri officials look to shine light on tax issues affecting solar farms – stltoday.com
Task force discusses how to resolve tax issues on Missouri solar farms – FOX 2
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Federal judge dismisses Missouri’s challenge to Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan – stltoday.com
Judge dismisses effort to halt student loan forgiveness plan – FOX 2
Jobs
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MoDOT and IDOT facing staff shortages ahead of winter season – KSDK
Who needs college? St. Louis-area students learn about construction trades at expo – stltoday.com
History
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New views of St. Louis from the International Space Station – FOX 2
Origins of waste: St. Louis’ role in The Manhattan Project – FOX 2
What St. Louis looked like at the turn of the 20th Century – r/StLouis
Sustainability
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Who can pay for flood buyouts in the St. Louis region? Not us, says MSD – stltoday.com
How the Mississippi River is impacting the economy – KSDK
Low water level in Mississippi is dream for some, nightmare for others – FOX 2
Infrastructure
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Constellation NewEnergy Announced as New Electricity Program Supplier – RiverBender
City of Wood River Renews Municipal Electricity Aggregation Program With New Supplier, Constellation NewEnergy – RiverBender
Godfrey Mayor Mike McCormick Urges Residents To Stay With Electricity Aggregation Program – RiverBender
Ecology
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Lesser-known Missouri fruit is thought to predict winter weather severity – FOX 2
The Invasive Joro Spider Is Getting Cozy in the U.S. – HowStuffWorks
Is the Spotted Lanternfly Takeover Inevitable? – Gizmodo
Why do mosquitos attack some folks and ignore others? Science has an answer – Boing Boing
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Meanwhile, Antarctica’s snow is turning green – Freethink
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The Foss Swim School at the Market at McKnight retail center at 9550 Manchester Road will be the third built by Echelon for the Minnesota-based swim school operator and the fourth Foss location in the St. Louis area.
Michael Stanley of Carrollton, IL joined the Real Rock Army today
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LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or often untold stories of St.
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A massive fire broke out at Windermere Place on Thursday.
The popularity of fishing has exploded in recent years. One recent tournament in Ohio has even led to criminal charges.
The president of the Jana Elementary PTA believes we could have learned about a possible nuclear contaminated school years ago, except for what she called continued resistance from the Army Corps of Engineers.
The work on Interstate 70 and the Zumbehl Road interchange in St. Charles County by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) will lead to overnight delays in the next two days.
Car thefts are increasing in St. Louis County, but Hyundai and Kia vehicles are targeted more than others.
Thieves have been on a window-smashing spree in the Central West End over the last several days.
"Coming out of the pandemic, there's a renewed sense of optimism," said Steven Pearce with Greater St. Louis, Inc.
MoDOT said if a widespread winter storm lasts longer than one 12-hour shift, they won’t have enough employees to fill the trucks on the second shift.
The head of Just Moms STL is educating people about radioactive waste after she believes she was exposed to radioactivity as a child.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are one of the most fascinating things to emerge from the crypto space. While everyone was going crazy over NFTs, almost all of the more interesting things were happening in the DAO space. DAOs are something of an experiment in being able to form new kinds of organizations quickly in non-traditional […]
Former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Todd Stottlemyre co-founded the restaurant chain, which is slated to expand to downtown St. Louis and Warson Woods.
Fantasy Football expert Jake Ciely of The Athletic joins WAVY Sports Director Craig Loper for Week 7 of the Washington Huddle.
“I’ve always had concerns with our Chief of Police and it’s not a secret in the community,” said Louisiana Mayor Tim Carter.