The chant came steady, rising through speakers and screens alike: “Books, not bombs. Schools, not jails.” At pulpits, in Zoom ...

College sports can open the doors of opportunity for student-athletes. All too often, exploitation is what steps through the opening. The SCORE Act and President Trump’s April 2026 executive order to ...

Los Angeles singer d4vd — real name David Burke — has been arrested in connection with the murder of Celeste Rivas, the teen whose body was found in his abandoned Tesla last September, according to ...

Myla Croft, a third-year law student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received a 2026 SIU System Distinguished Student Service Award. A St. Louis native, Croft was previously named a ...

St. Louisan Jayson Tatum reached a special milestone on Friday night while helping lead the Boston Celtics to a big road ...

Grace Griffin has been named the 2026 Jamala Rogers Young Visionary. She is a fifth-generation East St. Louisan who is committed to transformative change in her community. Griffin’s vision of social ...

Ray Hartmann, 73, a well-known journalist and media personality in St. Louis, was killed Thursday afternoon in an accident on ...

Richard Jackson wanted a clearer view of how justice works in St. Louis — not from a textbook, but from inside the system itself. So the University of Missouri-St. Louis criminology student and ...

Missouri voters will decide whether to give state lawmakers broad new authority to expand sales taxes and eventually eliminate the state’s income tax, a proposal supporters say would boost economic ...

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Jada Hampton still remembers the moment she heard about the recent fatal shooting at a high school track meet in North. The ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House committee last week he did not recall making podcast ...