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Essential news for the St. Louis region. Every weekday, in about 8 to 10 minutes, you can learn about the top stories of the day, while also hearing longer stories that bring context and humanity to the issues and ideas that affect life in the region.

  • Thursday, March 28, 2024 - New sickle cell disease therapy could bring relief to St. Louisans
    The FDA recently approved two cell-based gene therapy treatments for the blood disorder. Doctors and advocates believe the therapy could bring relief to the nearly 2,000 St. Louisans living with the disease. However, many are questioning the accessibility, their costs and risks.
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - A preview of the Cardinals season
    The St. Louis Cardinals start their 2024 season tomorrow afternoon in Los Angeles against the Dodgers. Last year, the redbirds had their first losing season since 2007. There are tempered expectations that this year will be better.
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Beauty school in the county jail
    Beauty school has made its way to incarcerated women at the St. Louis County Justice Center. The aim is to address recidivism with hot tools and clippers.
  • Monday, March 25, 2024 - Missouri legislature returns from spring break
    The 2024 Missouri Legislative Session resumes today after a week away from the Capitol. With only roughly two months left in the end of session, GOP priorities include passing a resolution that if later approved by voters, would make it harder to amend the state’s constitution as well as measures on education and crime.
  • Friday, March 22, 2024-A science fiction opera rooted in the Black experience
    Damon Davis has worked in many art forms, including sculpture, painting and film. His latest work is a multi-genre opera inspired by Afrofuturism.
  • Thursday, March 21, 2024- A survivor speaks about the Tulsa race massacre
    In the early 1900s many race massacres where white mobs attacked and killed Black people across the country, including in East St. Louis and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The oldest known survivor of the Tulsa massacre spoke about it at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - Questions abound with Fontbonne University's closure
    Answers to the main question about the Clayton campus' planned 2025 closure and reaction from students with an uncertain future.
  • Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - Fires at the Mark Twain National Forest
    Two wildfires consumed more than 1,000 acres of the Mark Twain National Forest in late February. Firefighters contained the burns, but the unseasonably warm and windy conditions that let them spread quickly underscore the importance of the forest service's plans to set some fires on purpose.
  • Monday, March 18, 2024 - Some states are seeing a push to reduce penalties for cockfighting
    It’s illegal to fight roosters in the U.S. yet raising game fowl is a big business. There have been recent efforts in some states to lower the penalties for cockfighting. Animal rights activists call foul, while breeders say they’re simply protecting their right to raise chickens.
  • Friday, March 15, 2024- Why historic old homes on Kingshighway were demolished
    St. Louis has roughly 20-thousand vacant properties spread across the city. And responding to this challenge will require a fair amount of cash and investment.