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The money from the National Endowment for the Humanities was to have helped preserve artifacts with “national and international significance,” the leader of the Missouri Historical Society said.

Some worry the anti-discrimination legislation could be used against protesters on college campuses.

A friendly food discussion devolves into a bitterly fought cooking contest.

January 9, 1938 - April 4, 2025

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Jansen-Brunk, Belinda Lou — St. Louis, MO

(nee Szczepanik) SERVICES: Funeral at KUTIS AFFTON CHAPEL (10151 Gravois Rd., 63123) on Thursday, April 10, at 10 AM. Interment at Gullick Cemetery (Highland, IL). Visitation Wednesday, April 9, from 4 – 8 PM.

Baptized into the hope of Christ’s resurrection, beloved husband of 66 years to Elizabeth Ann (Liz) Stangler Seise. Dear father of Julie (Jeff) Hovey, Ken (Lynn) Seise, Beth (Jeff) Collins, and Laura (Henry) Goff, grandfather of Kate Levine, Andrew Hovey,…

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.”