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As St. Louis works to boost its credentials as a growing technology hub, city officials also are looking at how to best meet the city’s internal tech needs.

A contract for Gates must still be approved by the University of Missouri's Board of Curators.

It happened just west of Columbia, Mo. around 4:45 Friday afternoon.

Here's a quasi-philosophical question for your weekend amusement that's probably been studied but is just obscure enough that I can't find anything relevant when I search for it. Most philosophical systems assume that a life is a life, all equally valuable. This makes sense for any moral system that has to be universal, but in ...continue reading "How much do you value life?"

A jury convicted William Flores, 36, of raping two children in Breckenridge Hills and recommended he be sentenced to at least 50 years in prison.

Assisting officers found the suspect and took him into custody. No injuries were reported.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri System has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by a white woman who alleged she was removed from her position in favor of a younger, Black woman. The Columbia Missourian reports the university will pay $1.57 million to Rachel Brown, who was 60 when she lost her job as [...]

Mayor Tishaura O. Jones: “I never thought I would be celebrating a milestone birthday with you one day, and grieving your transition the next.”

After more than two weeks of private meetings with nearly half the U.S. Senate, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, will field questions …

EAST ST. LOUIS – In response to a fire that consumed an apartment building in Washington Park, State Senator Christopher Belt (D-Swansea) and Representatives LaToya Greenwood (D-East St. Louis) and Jay Hoffman (D-Swansea) have teamed up to collect clothes for the victims who have been displaced from their homes. “While I am grateful the residents of the building made it out safely, I’m devastated as I think about the struggles the families will face as they’re displaced from their homes,” Belt said. “Representatives Greenwood and Hoffman and I have come together to pledge our support for the people who were affected by this unforeseen tragedy.” A fire struck at an apartment building Wednesday morning in Washington Park. The Assistant Chief for the Washington Park Fire Department Ronnie Harris reported that when firefighters got there, flames were already pouring from the building. Fortunately, all the residents were able to make it

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More than 50 years after the case was closed, a get-rich-quick plot to hold the son of a Kansas City-area multimillionaire for ransom is still widely regarded as Missouri's own crime of the century. Nationwide grief over a child lost compounded by an ongoing mystery surrounding the location of missing ransom.