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Last year, SLPS’s transportation crisis came to a head when primary bus vendor Missouri Central canceled its contract with the district.

“It’s the homeowner’s property. Why do they need permission from a homeowners’ association to do something that is entirely legal?”

A $3.2 million plan to help farmers produce fresh food in north St. Louis County drew questions about connections, a lack of bids and misleading details.

“She was an absolute force,” said her daughter, Rachel Seward, of St. Louis.

“Low (state) funding with higher tuition means a denial to those who currently have dreams but no means.”

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page called the new entity, which advocates have spent years trying to create via state and local law, a “landmark” action.

Completion of the Old Courthouse renovations caps over a decade of work to revamp and reimagine the Gateway Arch National Park and Kiener Plaza, a $380 million project billed as the National Park Service’s largest public-private project ever.

Novus Properties Co. said it plans to aggressive market for tenants as the building's biggest tenant, Mercy Health, will be downsizing space.

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Vanier Jerimiah Jones, 28, faces two charges of first-degree murder.

Anthony Conner, 22, was one of two people found dead in the College Hill neighborhood this past Tuesday morning.

Police identified the slain 16-year-old as Aeyion Barnett, of the Walnut Park East neighborhood.

The man, believed to be in his 50s, was found with gunshot wounds to his pelvis and leg.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey requested one of the inquiries into the death of Nathaniel Mueller, who went missing Dec. 21.

Police have made no arrests but believe the shot that killed the boy came from his friends — not from the homeowner.

Aldermanic President Megan Green's lawsuit, filed in Cole County, argues the state takeover law is unconstitutional on multiple grounds.

The issue, at its root, is a tax problem.

Columnist Bill McClellan writes about a trip to Italy, a fall and a visit by the prime minister.