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Tuition and academic fees will be frozen for the second straight year at Missouri's public four-year colleges and universities, Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday.
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.
Casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.'s CEO and chairman resigned Monday, less than a week after allegedly telling a St. Louis County Council member that voting in favor of another company's casino was the worst move of the council member's career.
Investigators are looking into the behavior of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.'s CEO during a zoning vote by the St. Louis County Council this week on a casino complex being developed by another company.
Yoga practitioners are criticizing a Missouri sales tax that applies to yoga classes, claiming they should be exempt because the lessons include spiritual elements.
City leaders voted Friday to support a developer's proposal to transform crumbling sections of north St. Louis by building new business centers and homes. The 15-year project has been touted as including green parks, green energy and more.
Six black students from Washington University who say they were turned away from a Chicago bar said Wednesday they've reached an agreement with the business that will help them combat racial discrimination.
Mention swine flu to a young child, and odds are pretty good you'll get a blank stare.
In sections of the city many residents won't venture into at night and where thieves steal bricks off vacant homes, developer Paul McKee Jr. sees an $8 billion future of green living, clean streets and thriving business.
It's no secret that raising children can be expensive, but how about nearly a quarter of a million dollars expensive?
Missouri researchers have launched a new effort in their fight against worldwide hunger: bringing together a doctor who has long treated the malnourished with plant scientists working to improve the nutritional content of food.
Baseball's All-Star Game on Tuesday will bring more than 200,000 visitors to St. Louis, which has worked hard in recent years to make its streets safer and re-energize its downtown.
Kyle McCarty's photo album looks different from other children's: One picture shows him riding in a red wagon down a hospital corridor. In another, he drapes a stethoscope around his neck. A third shows him sporting a dinosaur Halloween costume, in the company of nurses.
It's an international mystery: How did a Missouri family's Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement? Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year got sent to family and friends, and was posted on her blog and a few social networking sites. The photo showed her and her husband Jeff holding their two young children.
Brryan Jackson has been left out of birthday party invitations and asked not to use water fountains. His daily routine at one point included 23 pills, three IV medications and two injections. But the toughest part of growing up with AIDS for him may be knowing how he got it.
A St. Louis beauty salon owner accidentally happened upon one of the hottest Hollywood scripts — the pages from an upcoming "Twilight" sequel — in a trash bin.
Illinois investigators say the husband of a woman found dead with the couple's two sons had asked for a police check at their house after a call to the family's phone went unanswered.
A state-of-the-art, high-tech chess center is awaiting two dozen of the nation's finest players, who are scheduled to descend on St. Louis next month for the country's most prestigious chess tournament.
Vice President Joe Biden pledged Friday to close gaps between family incomes and college costs to make higher education a reality for more young people.
A sport utility vehicle loaded with 1,200 baby chicks in cardboard boxes pulls up to the Clearview Feed and Seed store, where customers come to pick up their peeping, cheeping poultry orders on a recent spring day.
A top children's hospital wants to improve the survival rate of infants born with a birth defect that many families have never heard of until their child is diagnosed.
An eastern Missouri family expects they'll be able to stay in their home built inside a cave after accepting an offer of a private mortgage contract. Curt Sleeper said Tuesday that a New Jersey-based business offered a 15-year loan with a low interest rate that should allow the family to keep their home in Festus, about 30 miles south of St. Louis.
Thirteen former FEMA trailers deemed unlivable and set for the scrap heap somehow ended up in a mobile home park near St. Louis, where they were close to being offered as housing, a state official said Tuesday.
A lot of people are struggling to keep their homes in these tough economic times. One suburban St. Louis family is trying to keep its cave.
The chief executive of a campaign to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016 doesn't think the controversy surrounding the Illinois governor should hurt the city's chances of winning the bid.
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