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The men will now spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

The popular south St. Louis business has a history of traffic incidents. The spot has been slated for improvements since drivers struck and killed two pedestrians in 2022.

It's been a wild year rife with protests, innovation, petty scandals, insects, celestial happenings — and much more.

Leadership at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis is changing hands. Its current president and CEO is retiring at the end of the year, and Brandon Williams, an ex-NFL player and St. Louisan, will take over.

Beyond Pesticides is working to help cities phase out the use of chemicals like weed killers from public outdoor spaces. Advocates and organizers hope it will make communities healthier.

The teams traded blows until the last minute — and the Illinois Fighting Illini emerged victorious, 80-77, over the Missouri Tigers.

The jail director, who reports to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, was known to be at odds with the city's Detention Facility Oversight Board over the lack of transparency and conditions at the City Justice Center.

After Missouri voters passed Amendment 3 in November, enshrining the right to an abortion, Planned Parenthood sued to strike down several abortion restrictions in state law. A judge on Friday blocked some but not all of the restrictions.

Eric DeValkenaere, who has been in prison for a year and two months, could be released by Christmas. The family of 26-year-old Black man Cameron Lamb, whom DeValkenaere killed, has long feared that Gov. Mike Parson would free the former police detective.

The ruling from Circuit Judge Brian May of the 21st Circuit will be appealed.

Francis Howell School District officials did not inform the Board of Education about the growing cost of the new Francis Howell North High School, according to a new state audit.

Melanie Brink, who has led Freeburg’s elementary school district through two years of controversy and upheaval, is leaving to become superintendent of Belle Valley School District 119 in Belleville next year.