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MoBot's seed bank houses over 9,600 packets of seeds for conservation purposes — spanning 1,511 species from 20 countries and 30 states.

The nonprofit organization Feeding America was looking for a better way to distribute billions of pounds of food to food banks each year. It used to use an algorithm to answer that question. It generated a list of food banks based on need, and when a shipment came up, Feeding America called the food bank at the top of the list. But what if a food bank didn’t need or want that donation? The answer to that problem is a market economy, of sorts.

Jerry Chiasson had been living under a bridge in Gainesville, fighting larceny charges and trying to get clean.  Biking from Springfield to Mountain Home, Arkansas, where he’d planned to stay with a friend, Chiasson, 52, was pulled over and arrested on a warrant for a stolen car — charges that were eventually dropped. While fighting […]

ST. LOUIS — It's a cold start Monday morning with clouds still in place overhead. Clouds should gradually decrease Monday but temperatures will stay in the low to mid-30s. Temperatures swing upward for Tuesday with highs climbing into the 50s. Two cold fronts come through Tuesday night through Friday. The first cold front will bring [...]

Before the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade, a lot of women and girls died trying to end their pregnancies themselves. How many is impossible to know. Since our current court overturned Roe, women are once again dying, as ProPublica has reported. But not in numbers anywhere near […]

A suspect was killed and two bystanders were injured after a police pursuit that ended in a crash in north St. Louis on Sunday night.

Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh has donated over 800 personal items, including over 400 guitars, to an upcoming Julian’s Auction. But the rocker admits it wasn’t easy to part with all…

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Headlines from the Dec. 7, 1925, front page include: Three women members of the new Congress

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As federal incentives for home electrification disappear, an innovative state law lets utilities meet energy-efficiency mandates by getting people off gas.

  I love KSHE! My dad said listening to KSHE was the only thing to keep me from crying as a baby, so it was always on. I think I...

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GRANITE CITY - Evan Brewer, a senior center for Granite City High's boys basketball team, is off to a great 4-2 start. Brewer scored 12 points in a 58-39 win over Metro-East Lutheran at Granite City Memorial Gym on Dec. 4, and is currently the team's leading scorer, averaging 17.3 points-per-game. He's also averaging 9.3 rebounds-per-game, and also has nine assists and eight steals in the Warriors first games. Last season, on a team that finished 9-23, he averaged 15.4 points-per-game to lea

EDWARDSVILLE - Ciara Cunningham, a senior hitter who helped Edwardsville advance to the IHSA Class 4A girls volleyball sectional this season, signed a letter of intent to play for Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., in a ceremony held in the auditorium of the Jon Davis Wrestling Center. Cunningham, one of two seniors on this year's Tigers team, helped the Tigers go on to a 25-12 record this season, advancing to the O'Fallon sectional, losing to Belleville East 25-17, 25-14 on Nov. 4.

St. Louis captain Brayden Schenn had two goals and an assist and the Blues beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game trip with their second victory in two nights. On Saturday in Ottawa, the Blues beat the Senators 2-1. The Canadiens also played Saturday night, winning 2-1 in a shootout at Toronto. Dylan Holloway scored and assisted on both of Schenn’s goals. Pavel Buchnevich also scored, and Jordan Binnington made 23 saves. Cole Caufield scored his 16th goal of the season for Montreal to extend his points steak to 11 games. Defensemen Lane Hutson and Noah Dobson also scored, and Jakub Dobes stopped 14 shots.

A combined effort of citizens, police, dogs, and drones are searching for a teenager who went missing Sunday evening in St. Clair County, Illinois.