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Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols has hit his 701st home run, connecting against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Fox News host Lawrence Jones calls on New Orleans city leaders to "step up" as the city overtakes St. Louis as America's murder capital on "Lawrence Jones Cross Country."

St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier.

Post Malone has apologized to his St. Louis fans for an on-stage accident that sent him to the hospital and shortened his set Saturday night.

Rapper Post Malone is recovering after he bruised his ribs during an unexpected fall on stage while performing in St. Louis, his manager confirmed on social media.

New Orleans overtook St. Louis as the American city with the highest number of murders with 52 homicides per 100,000 residents, according to data released on Sept. 11.

Albert Pujols hit his 698th home run, a two-run drive that pulled the St Louis Cardinals into a sixth-inning tie with the Cincinnati Reds.

Yadier Molina homered twice on a day he paired with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright to tie the major league record fof 324 starts by a battery in an 11-6 loss to the Washington Nationals.

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina have made their 324th career start.

Tommy Edman was confused. The St. Louis infielder thought he had made the final out. Instead, his long drive to left field nicked off the glove of outfielder Alex Call for a two-run, two-out double to cap St. Louis' five-run ninth inning in a 6-5 victory over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night.

A murder-for-hire trial involving former stars of the reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie's” got underway in St. Louis, where prosecutors allege that James “Tim” Norman arranged his nephew's killing because he needed money from a life insurance policy that he took out on the victim.

Albert Pujols hit his 695th career home run in the eighth inning and Miles Mikolas tossed eight scoreless innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0.

Based on employment prospects and affordability, these are the top 10 cities for new college grads to start a career, according to an analysis by Insurify.

Eight years after Michael Brown’s death pushed the St. Louis region front and center into the national debate over police accountability, the city’s elected officials and its police associations are at odds over a new oversight plan.

While segregation was still casting its ugly shadow over the U.S., the Homer G.

Numerous transportation projects across the U.S. will be getting a slice of $2.2 billion of new federal funding.

Members of the three St. Louis-area factories had rejected an earlier proposal, citing retirement benefits.

The Chicago Cubs are keeping All-Stars Willson Contreras and Ian Happ for now after Tuesday’s trade deadline passed with no deal for either.

The same stubborn weather system caused intense downpours in St. Louis and Appalachia that led to devastating and in some cases deadly flooding.

Thursday's flooding comes two days after parts of the St. Louis metropolitan area saw up to 10 inches of rain, according to NWS.

Albert Pujols hit a three-run homer and finished with three hits, passing Rogers Hornsby on St. Louis’ career list, and the Cardinals stopped Toronto’s seven-game win streak with a 6-1 victory over the Blue Jays on Wednesday night. Adam Wainwright pitched seven sparkling innings to help St. Louis earn a split of the two-game set while playing without unvaccinated sluggers Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado.

Thunderstorms caused widespread flooding in and around St. Louis on Tuesday morning.

"This company continues to make billions of dollars each year off the backs of our hardworking members," the union said.

Roughly 2,500 members of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers union are prepared to walk out Aug. 1 after rejecting the planemaker's pay and 401(k) offers.

The attacking dogs were leashed, but knocked their owner over and pulled away from her grasp, police said.

The suspect is accused of robbing two other convenience stores before the deadly encounter.

Cardinals reliever Genesis Cabrera slammed the ball to the ground in frustration when he was removed from the game Friday night, prompting a stern response from manager Oliver Marmol moments before St. Louis closed out a 7-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Cabrera was pulled after giving up consecutive hits to start the ninth inning.

The Philadelphia Phillies will be without J.

Kyle Gibson kept the ball in the park against St. Louis this time, Alec Bohm broke a scoreless tie with a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies edged the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0.

The monument dedicated to the enslaved people who filed lawsuits for their freedom in Missouri was dedicated on Juneteenth.

Miles Mikolas of the St. Louis Cardinals is pitching a no-hitter through eight innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the second game of a doubleheader.

Sierra Christa was born and raised in Castroville and started her education at age three, and along with six other students she would share a classroom with them for many years to come.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matters protesters outside their St. Louis, Mo., home.

Joey Logano jockeyed for the lead with Kyle Busch in overtime, got around him for good just before the white flag flew and cruised to the victory Sunday in the NASCAR Cup Series debut at World Wide Technology Raceway.

A St. Louis man admitted Friday that he killed the grandson of a woman whose St. Louis-area soul food restaurant was the setting for the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s.” Travell Anthony Hill, 30, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire in the March 2016 killing of 21-year-old Andre Montgomery Jr. Hill said in his plea agreement that he shot Montgomery in exchange for $5,000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

The accused robber was struck multiple times, and two bystanders were wounded in the St. Louis shootout.

Nolan Gorman hit his first major league homer and Matthew Liberatore earned his first major league win, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-3.

Former All-Star pitcher Carlos Martínez has been suspended for 80 games under baseball’s minor league drug program following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Ibutamoren, which increases Human Growth Hormone.

Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri refused to buckle in the face of death threats, racial slurs, a booing St. Louis crowd and a few post-whistle hits.

Where in Missouri and Illinois can you enjoy a small city setting along with affordable housing, health care access and short commutes? Here’s several St. Louis suburbs that made the list.

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Rylan Bannon became just the third Baltimore player since 2000 to get a hit on the first pitch of his big league career, Jorge Mateo and Anthony Bemboom homered and the Orioles beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2.

An aggressive effort in St. Louis is trying to lure Afghan refugees.

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang was transferred to U.S. custody to face smuggling, money laundering and conspiracy charges.

The Mets have been drilled 19 times in 20 games this season, leading the league by a wide margin.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a St. Louis-based natural gas company's appeal of a lower court's decision that could close a pipeline that runs through parts of Illinois and Missouri. The court rejected Spire Inc.'s appeal without comment. Spire President Scott Smith pledged to continue fighting to keep the 65-mile (105-kilometer) pipeline up and running.

Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is facing renewed pressure from a hedge fund to speed up its transition to digital publishing and consider adding new digital-savvy leaders to its board.

Cardinals bench coach Skip Schumaker learned less than an hour before game time that he'd be filling in for ill manager Oliver Marmol. Nolan Arenado helped make his job a lot easier. Arenado hit three doubles and a single, Paul DeJong homered and St. Louis, minus its rookie skipper, beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 Saturday.

It's opening day in Major League Baseball and a new season has brought a new look.

Winners of the Roberto Clemente Award will wear his No. 21 on the back of their caps for the rest of their major league careers.

TOWN SQUARE | According to Zillow’s study, the median home value growth was more than $100,000 in 11 of the 38 major metro areas analyzed by the researchers.

Body camera video shows the moments police confronted the man, who proceeded to scream slurs at them and pull his pants down.

Problems with weather, air traffic conditions and airspace congestion started snowballing Saturday, leading to thousands of canceled flights over the weekend during the spring travel peak.

Yadier Molina is back, and both he and the St. Louis Cardinals couldn’t be happier. After missing the first week of camp for personal reasons, the 39-year-old Molina arrived at the Cardinals' complex on Monday for what will likely be his final spring training. “It’s been tough the last couple of months but everything is all right right now,” Molina said.

Veteran infielder Matt Carpenter has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. The Rangers, who traded expected starting third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa at the start of spring training, announced Carpenter’s addition Saturday. The 36-year-old Carpenter, a three-time All-Star while playing his first 11 major league seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, would have a $2 million base salary while in the majors if added to the 40-man roster.

A police officer and a gunman died following a shootout early Thursday at a motel in eastern Missouri that left another officer wounded, authorities said. Garrett Worley were dispatched to a reported disturbance at a Motel 6 about 12:30 a.m., Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesperson Dallas Thompson told The Associated Press. “We're still trying to piece together what he was doing in Bonne Terre,” Thompson said.

A man who split his time between the St. Louis area and Ukraine, helping arrange adoptions of children with medical needs, has died amid the fighting in the war-torn country. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Serge Zevlever was killed when he volunteered to check on a commotion outside a Kyiv bomb shelter on Feb. 26, his daughters said. “He was not in a scuffle, he was not on the front lines,” his eldest daughter Alisa Sander said.

A suburban St. Louis school district has reversed its earlier decision to remove a book from its school libraries in the face of criticism and a class-action lawsuit. The Wentzville School Board on Friday accepted a review committee's recommendation to retain Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye," which it had previously banned because of its explicit descriptions of sex, violence, rape and incest, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Daniel Brice, the board's vice president, said the district should “tighten its policies” regarding some books, but he noted that parents already had the right to request that certain titles not be available to their children.

Vacant homes that dot the urban and rural landscape across the U.S. pose an especially high risk for firefighters because many are unsound even before catching fire.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday placed a St. Louis couple who gained national attention for waving guns at racial injustice protesters on probation as attorneys. The court suspended Mark and Patricia McCloskeys' law licenses but delayed the suspension and put the two on probation for a year. Mark McCloskey said Tuesday that he was disappointed by the ruling but happy the court chose to put the couple on probation, rather than suspend their licenses.

Canceled flights began to mount Tuesday, with St. Louis leading the list with more than 60% of its scheduled departures for Wednesday canceled.

Missouri’s first Black congresswoman’s car was littered with bullets last weekend while it was parked in St. Louis. Despite sources believing she was not the […]

An overturned conviction in Missouri is raising new questions about video testimony in criminal court cases nationwide.

Troopers say Emily Hernandez' car hit another on I-44 in the St. Louis area, killing a passenger in the other car. She's charged with five misdemeanors stemming from the January 6 assault.

At least two people were killed Friday night when a reported tornado ripped through an Arkansas nursing home. In Illinois, the roof of an Amazon warehouse collapsed.

A former Southwest Airlines baggage handler was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison after pleading guilty to knowingly possessing or receiving stolen guns. Federal prosecutors said Mark Hunter of St. Louis was charged after a passenger traveling through St. Louis Lambert International Airport reported that a pistol had been reported stolen from his luggage. Federal agents investigated and found seven reported thefts of guns from luggage checked on Southwest over a five-month period in 2020.

A federal judge has blocked President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate on health care workers in 10 states that had brought the first legal challenge against the requirement.

The NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke will pay $790 million to settle a lawsuit filed by St. Louis interests over the team’s relocation to Los Angeles.

St. Louis officials sought $1 billion in damages after the Rams moved to Los Angeles in 2016.

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Assault charges will be dropped against a former suburban St. Louis police officer who shot a shoplifting suspect, a decision reached after the victim and the ex-officer participated in a mediation aimed at resolving conflict. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office said Monday that Ashley Fountain Hall asked for dismissal of charges against Julia Crews, 39. The process known as restorative justice mediation took place Nov. 5.

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million.

SAINT LOUIS, MI. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - 2020 was the deadliest year for gun violence in decades, and although the stats are not final for this year, it looks like things did not improve.

On Good Day Austin we talked with Kyle City Council Member Michael Tobias about Saturday's Kyle Veterans Day Parade

The woman set a new age record in the event. She says she will keep running as long as she can.

Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate on death row in one week, despite the state's parole board expressing doubt about his guilt. Amanda Bass, a federal public defender, joined CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the case of Julius Jones.

Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's office on Tuesday charged Perez Deshay Reed in the shooting deaths of two people in the city in September. Reed was charged Saturday in two other fatal shootings in September in St. Louis County.

Perez Reed is facing charges of murder and assault in shootings that occurred in the St. Louis County area. The gun used in those assaults has been tied to other murders in St. Louis and Kansas.

A four-unit complex of buildings at 820 Robinson Ave., was approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission for a Conditional Use Permit as a bed and breakfast location and forwarded

The suit claims Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones discussed the current SoFi Stadium site in California as far back as 2013.

Hint: Stay away from the dishwasher.

Six years after playing their last game in St. Louis, the NFL's rams are still engaged in a suit against their former city and are trying to get the case moved.

A suburban St. Louis man alleges in a lawsuit that police officers punched, kicked and stomped on him before illegally searching the apartment he shared with his girlfriend after claiming he had committed a minor traffic violation. The lawsuit was filed in federal court Monday on behalf of Tranell Stewart, 38, and his former girlfriend, Lisa Jones, against five Maryland Heights police officers and the city of Maryland Heights. It also accuses the city of liability, charging that Maryland Heights has not addressed years of police stopping and searching Black motorists at rates far above their representation in the city.

The Chicago Cubs have hired Carter Hawkins as general manager, dipping into Cleveland’s front office in an effort to bolster their own player development system.

Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected a Supreme Court appeal by the St. Louis-based natural gas company Spire Inc. to allow it to keep operating a pipeline through Illinois and Missouri.

The Rolling Stones are touring again, this time without their heartbeat, or at least their backbeat.

The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is deciding the fate of a Missouri law that puts sweeping restrictions on abortions, and a focal point of oral arguments on Tuesday was a provision prohibiting abortions based solely on a Down syndrome diagnosis.

Manny Machado screamed at All-Star teammate Fernando Tatis Jr. in the dugout during the fifth inning of the San Diego Padres’ crucial game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

A Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago has been sold at auction.

Mets 41-year-old left-hander Rich Hill is set to face Cardinals 40-year-old righty Adam Wainwright in a showdown of veterans who still got it.

A 61-year-old Texas man drowned last week in a private lake about an hour southwest of St. Louis.

Steven Duggar hit a tiebreaking two-run triple after being called up earlier in the day, Brandon Belt homered, and the San Francisco Giants wrapped up their key weekend series against the rival Los Angeles Dodgers with a 6-4 win to take the NL West lead.

The Yankees host the Red Sox in a day-night doubleheader as the longtime rivals jostle for playoff position.

Officials say five siblings under the age of 10 died when a fire swept through their southern Illinois apartment.

The Chicago White Sox have acquired closer Craig Kimbrel from the crosstown Cubs.

United States Olympic wrestler Gable Steveson has taken advantage of the new opportunities for college athletes to cash in on their name, image and likeness by signing with clean energy drink company Kill Cliff.

Rolling Stones fans in the United States will finally be getting, yes, some satisfaction: The band announced it was relaunching its “No Filter” tour, derailed by the pandemic, this fall.

Max Kranick pitched five perfect innings in his major league debut before a 64-minute rain delay forced him from the game, and the Pittsburgh Pirates went on to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-2.

Simone Biles sure looks ready for Tokyo.

A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators last year have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.