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Staff3 days ago
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Biden issues disaster declaration for area flooding, opens access to FEMA assistance

St. Louisans affected by the recent severe storms and flooding can now get help from the federal government through FEMA’s…
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Crime

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Municipal Courts tosses backlog of low-level cases; Warrant Reset Day, Second Chance job fair planned

Municipal Courts Administrative Judge Newton McCoy signed on Thursday a dismissal order for more than 24,000 older, low-level cases at…
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News

Staff6 days ago
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Loop Trolley is running again through Oct. 30; rides are free

The Loop Trolley is officially back in service after Bi-State Development received final approval from the Loop Trolley Transportation Development…
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News

Staff6 days ago
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State requests federal disaster declaration for St. Louis, to access federal relief

Gov. Mike Parson asked the federal government on Thursday for a major disaster declaration in order to seek federal assistance…
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Health

Staff2 weeks ago
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‘True cost of aging’ index shows many seniors can’t afford basic necessities

Fran Seeley, 81, doesn’t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she’s uncomfortably close. Each…
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News

Staff2 weeks ago
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Flooding disrupts MetroLink service; damage is being assessed, addressed

MetroLink service has been affected by the severe flooding that struck the area after two separate days of storms this past…
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News

Staff2 weeks ago
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City sets up mobile command centers in neighborhoods hit hard by flooding

ST. LOUIS – This week’s severe storms and the flooding they caused have left many people devastated. So the city…
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News

Staff2 weeks ago
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Jones declares state of emergency in St. Louis after record rainfall, flooding

ST. LOUIS – Mayor Tishaura Jones has declared a state of emergency in the city after the recent rainfall and…
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News

Staff3 weeks ago
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City Recorder of Deeds offers new online way to get vital records

CITY HALL – St. Louisans can now get important documents from the city’s Recorder of Deeds without leaving home. The…
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Health

Staff3 weeks ago
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Conservative blocs unleash litigation to curb public health powers

Through a wave of pandemic-related litigation, a trio of small but mighty conservative legal blocs has rolled back public health…
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Health

Staff3 weeks ago
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Patients with epilepsy navigate murky unregulated CBD industry

In 2013, Tonya Taylor was suicidal because her epileptic seizures persisted despite taking a long list of medications. Then a…
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Health

StaffJuly 11, 2022
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Comptroller’s office to host American Red Cross blood drive Aug. 10

The Red Cross urgently needs blood and platelet donors to help ill patients, and there is special and ongoing need for…
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News

StaffJuly 8, 2022
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City opens registration for National Night Out parties in October

CITY HALL – Residents who want to host National Night Out block parties can register their plans with the city’s…
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Kids

StaffJuly 7, 2022
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Summer Fun STL adds new site, more pop-up events for city children

CITY HALL – Children are getting even more options for safe summer fun, with an expansion of youth programming locations…
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Crime

StaffJuly 6, 2022
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How will the new federal gun law affect Missouri? It’s complicated

The federal gun safety bill passed with bipartisan congressional support in June was heralded as the first notable piece of federal…
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Politics

StaffJuly 5, 2022
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At naturalization ceremonies, immigrants celebrate ‘beginning of a new life’

ST. LOUIS – Twenty people became new U.S. citizens here on Saturday during a naturalization ceremony at Kiener Plaza. Judge…
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Health

StaffJuly 2, 2022
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Monkeypox: symptoms, how it spreads, and more

The World Health Organization said this week that monkeypox wasn’t yet a public health emergency of international concern. But more than…
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Politics

StaffJuly 1, 2022
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Missouri enacts photo voter ID law before November elections

Missouri voters will have to show photo identification to cast a regular ballot in the November election as a result…
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Politics

StaffJune 24, 2022
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Parson signs proclamation to end elective abortions in Missouri

JEFFERSON CITY – Today, in response to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Gov. Mike Parson signed…
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Politics

StaffJune 24, 2022
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Roe overturned: What you need to know about the Supreme Court abortion decision

After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling…
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Health

StaffJune 18, 2022
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Mobile food pantry expands free food program at 5 Metro Transit centers

ST. LOUIS – Metro Transit and the St. Louis Area Foodbank are expanding the free Food on the Move program…
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News

StaffJune 18, 2022
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Juneteenth celebrates emancipation, but how people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word…
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Art

StaffJune 17, 2022
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Greater Mount Carmel church to host free Juneteenth concert by Symphony

KINGSWAY EAST – The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform a free public concert on Sunday, in honor of Juneteenth,…
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Health

StaffJune 13, 2022
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Mortality gap is widening across the political aisle

Politics may be a matter of life or death. A study published June 7 by the British Medical Journal examined mortality rates…
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Health

StaffJune 11, 2022
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Health plans block patients’ mental health care from their doctors

When a longtime patient visited Dr. William Sawyer’s office after recovering from COVID-19, the conversation quickly turned from the coronavirus…
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Health

StaffJune 7, 2022
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Addressing the ‘trust factor’: Researchers tackle health disparities using genetics

Quenton Tompkins’ family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, S.C. His grandfather was a sharecropper in McCormick. His…
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Education

StaffJune 6, 2022
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A scholar studies the school choices parents of all races make

Chantal Hailey, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin My research at this moment focuses on school…
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Crime

StaffJune 3, 2022
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Study: Children who survive school shootings endure lasting consequences

As the U.S. reels from another school shooting, much of the public discussion has centered on the lives lost: 19…
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Opinion

StaffMay 30, 2022
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Opinion: The forgotten history of Memorial Day grew up in aftermath of Civil War

In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and…
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News

StaffMay 26, 2022
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City to resume alleyway recycling collection starting May 31

CITY HALL – St. Louisans can again put their household recyclables into the city’s blue alley bins for pickup separate…
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