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Michael L. Smargiassi, 59, and a teacher at Triad High School in Troy, Illinois, faces two felony grooming charges, a felony official misconduct charge and a misdemeanor battery charge.

The Missouri Senate on Monday voted to send a tax cut bill, with provisions designed to benefit both the ultra-wealthy and the working class, back to the House for final approval.

A National Weather Service meteorologist said heavy rainfall last week was unusual but the flooding along the Meramec is "kind of a normal-ish flood" for the spring.

Duane Daniels, who retired in 2022 after 34 years with the fire department, fills a vacancy left by Bettye Battle-Turner’s resignation in November.

They kept drugs, cash and guns separately. They never used phones to discuss business. And they lived by a code.

City officials in the Jefferson County community sued Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick’s office Wednesday, claiming he is overstepping his bounds in requesting records from closed city council meetings.

Calling former St. Louisan Ed Martin an “egregiously unqualified political hack,” ex-federal prosecutors ask the Senate Judiciary Committee for permission to testify when he comes up for confirmation.

Incumbent Darlene Green says challenger Donna Baringer wants to eliminate the St. Louis comptroller’s office. Baringer says that’s not possible.

The federal government is clawing back hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to go to public health departments and organizations across the state over the next year.

Missouri’s senior GOP U.S. senator says FICO, which handles 90% of the credit-score market, “has exploited working Americans with its monopoly power for too long.”

All eight U.S. representatives for Missouri — six Republicans and two Democrats — and the state’s U.S. senators ask White House for quick approval of state request for disaster relief.

One of the group’s organizers recently wrote that “all of the people in Gaza are Hamas, regardless of how we want to spin it in the western world.”

Adam A. Christoph, 54, was arrested out of state and charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action, according to the Major Case Squad.

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As the next mayor takes office in St. Louis, either incumbent Tishaura O. Jones or challenger Cara Spencer, old storylines await.

The race for three open seats is a referendum on the one held by Antionette “Toni” Cousins, the only incumbent running for reelection.

Jones has to win back the progressive South Side wards that flipped to Spencer and boost turnout in largely Black north St. Louis, which barely showed up last month.

The collision caused the victim, later identified as Jason Lewis, 27, of St. Peters, to land in the path of three other vehicles, which also struck him, police said.

The incident took place around 1:45 a.m. in the 400 block of South 10th Street.

The radio frequency owned by KDHX, 88.1 FM, broadcast the evangelical Christian network K-LOVE for several hours Saturday. The change was made although the station has not yet been sold.