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Police said the pickup truck's driver didn't stop for a stop sign or railroad crossing sign at the tracks and tried to cross ahead of the train.

MADISON COUNTY, Ill. - A police chase ended in an arrest early Tuesday morning in Pontoon Beach, Illinois. The car was stolen from Chicago. Officers spotted it in Litchfield just before 2 a.m. The chase reached speeds of up to 120 miles an hour along I-55. The chase ended near Highway 111 in Pontoon Beach. One [...]

ST. LOUIS - A man was shot in the leg near St. Louis City Hall early Tuesday morning. The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. on 13th Street at Chestnut Street in Poelker Park next to the Soldiers' Memorial. One man was shot near there on Sunday morning. Another man was shot and killed in [...]

The college town offers a wide array of cuisine, including these local favorites.

This story was originally published by Kaiser Health News.  The Biden administration in March 2021 announced it was investing $2.25 billion to address COVID health disparities, the largest federal funding initiative designed specifically to help underserved communities hardest hit by the virus. Two months later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded grants to […]

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ST. LOUIS - For the first time in Missouri, a Black woman will join the Missouri Supreme Court. Judge Robin Ransom will be sworn in on Tuesday. Governor Mike Parson appointed her last year. Ransom was a judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis. She previously worked for the St. Louis County Public [...]

I recently posted about a 1960s hotel in the Downtown West neighborhood that no longer worked (see Rethinking 2211 Market Street (Pear Tree Inn). Today is a similar look at an early 1980s hotel the no longer works: The Radisson/Ramada/Holiday Inn at 811 North 9th Street. It is across 9th ...

Move over, Big Tech: These communities are building a local coalition for carbon removal.

Cheap poultry for markets, restaurants and pets comes at the expense of Indigenous peoples in Brazil.

Edgar Winter's latest album, Brother Johnny, which was released in April, is a star-studded tribute to his late sibling Johnny Winter. The 17-track collection includes a version of "Rock 'n'…

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The Buffalo racist mass murderer parroted Fox News talking points.

Will voters see through the phony kind and give true economic populists a hearing?

Fareed Zakaria’s latest idea for a diplomatic bargain with the country is too clever by half.

As a resident of St. Louis, imagine getting a ticket for driving at least 2.5 times the speed limit in Forest Park. You might think that successfully contesting that ticket would be a long shot. But Rose Pfeiffer of 4908 Berlin Avenue (now Pershing Avenue) found luck after she experienced that exact scenario in 1907. …

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Kevin Hileman of Columbia, 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

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Crowds of youths downtown draw police away from preventing crimes in neighborhoods, St. Louis public safety director says.

ROXANA – Sophomore pitcher Calista Stahlhut threw all seven innings and hit a home run as the Roxana High School softball team defeated the Alton Redbirds by a score of 3-1. With the win, the Shells end their regular season with a record of 9-13. As for Calista, she’s the Shells’ number one pitcher and she now has a 9-11 record through 20 regular-season appearances. She leads her team in games played and strikeouts with 118 coming into the game against Alton. The Shells led 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth when Calista took to the batter’s box with no one on and two outs. With a quick swing of the bat, she took the ball over the fence in left-center field to make it 3-0 over the visiting Redbirds. It was her third home run of the season which leads her team. Because of that she was intentionally walked later on in the game. When asked what she thought was more important, the pitching performance or the home run, she had this to say: “I think they were

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