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Jim Roberts bought a Franklin County property for a family farm, then learned he’s next to an abandoned and toxic landfill.

On Thursday, he released a campaign video to go along with the announcement, saying he's just what the county needs right now: a self-proclaimed "nerd.”

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In the first Ctrl-Alt-Speech episode of 2026, Mike and Ben […]

A St. Louis County man admitted in court Thursday to the brutal shooting deaths of two women, as well as an unborn child, after he tried to buy weed.

From KMOV: A long-debated housing development in O’Fallon is back in front of city leaders and the public Tuesday night, according to the agenda. The O’Fallon Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to review the future of the Tall Tree development, a proposed 239-home subdivision planned for 161 acres on the city’s western edge. The […]

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A 19-year-old Kansas City, Kansas man is charged in a 2022 shooting on Kansas City's downtown loop that left a 34-year-old woman dead.

The Heartland Regional Investment Fund, LLC (HRIF), a certified Community Development Entity and subsidiary of the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, has been awarded $50 million in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The allocation matches the largest NMTC award in HRIF’s history, which […]

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi is the subject of a new docuseries from Gibson TV.Volume 1 of Tony Iommi: The Godfather of Heavy Metal is now streaming on YouTube. The series is described…

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St. Louis–based developer Mia Rose Holdings, LLC, in partnership with Ed Kohn and Greenberg Development Company, LLC, has broken ground on Wildwood Luxury Living, a $57.5 million mixed-use development at the corner of Main Street and Taylor Road in the heart of Wildwood Town Center. The four-story, approximately 215,000-square-foot Class A mixed-use project will include […]

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JERSEYVILLE - Meredith Gray of Jersey Community Unit School District No. 100 has become the all-time leading rebounder for the JCHS girls basketball team, surpassing the previous record of 865 rebounds held by Shelby Woelfel Sackmann. Gray achieved this milestone recently. The Jersey basketball sensation has averaged nearly 20 points and close to 10 rebounds per game for the Panthers. In addition to her basketball success, Gray also excelled in girls' volleyball this season, recording

A man already in custody for breaking into a branch of the St. Louis Public Library has been charged for another break-in at the same library, and for a disturbance at an adult toy store.

From The St. Louis Regional Freightway: The St. Louis region further solidified its standing as a premier national and global freight hub in 2025, propelled by continuing infrastructure investments, robust industrial expansion and collaborative workforce initiatives. The St. Louis Regional Freightway’s annual compilation summarizes the year’s most significant milestones, which have advanced the region’s multimodal […]

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WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats in Congress are cautiously optimistic they can enact the remaining government funding bills before their deadline at the end of the month, avoiding another shutdown.  The milestone would represent an accomplishment for the typically gridlocked Congress, though it comes months after lawmakers’ original October deadline and the longest shutdown in […]