The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reports that overall crime in the city is down by 28% from the first quarter of last year.
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California U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff’s decision to place a hold on Ed Martin’s U.S. Attorney nomination for Washington, D.C., casts doubt on whether he’ll get confirmed.
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An ornithologist spent four decades tracking 40,000 bird deaths at a single building. His records paved the way to better scientific and public understanding.
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The future of hundreds of investigations into possible civil rights violations at schools across the Midwest, and thousands more nationwide, are in question after the Trump Administration shuttered seven of 12 Department of Education offices charged with running the investigations.
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Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to overturn the Missouri health department’s newly published emergency rule governing complication plans for medication abortions.
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Find results for mayoral races in Illinois including Belleville, Cahokia Heights, Granite City and Alton as well as the Mississippi Valley Library District Board.
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The largest point of consternation between Democrats and Republicans on this year’s budget is education funding.
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Coldwater Creek lies at the heart of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, a catastrophe that over three generations likely afflicted many thousands of people across the breadth of the St. Louis region.
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Advocates demonstrated for transgender rights amid new federal policies that transgender St. Louisans say put them in danger.
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Ferguson residents will vote on who will serve the city's three wards April 8. Some residents have questioned if one candidate is living in the ward he’s representing.
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Belleville Bishop Michael McGovern will be the sixth archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska. McGovern has been the leader of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville, which covers the southern third of Illinois, since 2020.
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