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New June 26, 3:38 p.m. Considering the dismal state of education funding in Washington, the mood was about as upbeat as it could be when Lake Washington School District officials presented the School Board with a proposed $216.7 million budget June 22.

A 27-year-old New Haven woman was sentenced Friday on methamphetamine and pseudoephedrine related conspiracy charges, Acting US Attorney Michael W. Reap said.

Four-time Race Across America champion Jure Robic once again led the long, lonely parade of ultramarathon cyclists into the St.

It was a deadly weekend at two major St. Louis area racing events, as two men were killed in separate accidents at the Budweiser Creve Coeur Lake Drag Boat Classic and at the St.

Franklin County prosecutors have struck a plea deal with a man charged with killing his father last year.

Joplin is one of the host cities for the 2009 Missouri Humanities council Chautauqua to be held June 17-20, 2009.

Gourmet to Go will open a downtown caf late this summer in St. Louis Place at Olive and Broadway.

Columbia Sylvan Learning customers will get their money refunded and receive top priority over creditors, the center's owner said in a news release Thursday.

The owner of Columbia's Sylvan Learning Center should have the money to meet shut-down obligations, especially to customers, a spokeswoman for Sylvan Learning Inc.

The sentencing of one of five men charged in connection with a fatal shooting during a home invasion in 2008 was postponed Monday.

A Franklin County hospital is too close to a neighbor to qualify for extra federal money.

Washington -- Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt and his wife must pay $6,820 in back property taxes on their Washington home, following a nearly two-month review by city tax officials.

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The vision that developer Paul McKee has for recreating north St. Louis is massive indeed.

A standing-room-only crowd of several hundred people listened intently Thursday night as Paul McKee unveiled his ambitious plan for the transformation of a large swath of north St.

St. Louis -- It's the time of year when teenage girls aren't just putting on makeup, they're putting on the glitz.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is hoping to implement a plan that will allow approved lenders to advance the $8,000 tax credit to buyers at closing time.

Fired by Donald Trump, James Sun considers it a privilege to have stood before the real estate baron billionaire on the hit reality show "The Apprentice." But someone with less prestige has had the biggest impact on Sun's life so far - " his fifth grade math teacher.

The dashboard radar machine barked out speed readings in a computerized voice. Twenty feet below, unsuspecting drivers flew by on Interstate 70 in St.

Officials said Tuesday they were investigating a coal train derailment near Washington, Mo., about 50 miles west of St.