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APM Reports is suing the police department for withholding data about which homicide cases have been solved. The department told APM Reports and St. Louis Public Radio that information was a part of an investigative record.
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Even the Grinch can't stop shoppers in what's predicted to be a record holiday season. -
Nina Gilden Seavey’s podcast connects the story of Howard Mechanic with that of another fugitive who spent time in Missouri: James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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St. Louis and St. Louis County will share in hundreds of millions in the settlement of the lawsuit over the Rams leaving St. Louis.
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Through the first six months of 2021, nearly 800 Missourians died from opioid overdose; well over half the total number of deaths in 2020. Law enforcement and public health experts say the synthetic opioid fentanyl is largely to blame.
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School boards throughout Missouri have had to make consequential decisions that sometimes were not popular around masking and remote schooling.
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A St. Louis Fed economist says economic recovery from the pandemic has propelled demand for consumption, and it will take time for prices to even out.
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The council also Tuesday continued to question funding for the downtown St. Louis convention center.
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A Missouri judge has barred local health departments from issuing orders to protect people during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Aldermen also renewed a mask order for another 30 days and voted to further reduce penalties for marijuana usage.
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"The Court's confidence in Strickland's conviction is so undermined that it cannot stand," the judge wrote. Strickland's wrongful imprisonment for nearly 43 years is among the country's longest.
In a concert dedicated to the memory of longtime classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller, guest conductor and former SLSO resident conductor Gemma New leads a program of works by Elgar, Jake Heggi and Rimsky-Korsakov featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, concertmaster David Halen and cellist Elizabeth Chung.
