Blues lose in a shootout, 3-2 to Kings LOS ANGELES — Just eight games into this hockey season, the Blues are done with the Los Angeles Kings. Finished. See you next season. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 4, 2021
East St. Louis mother charged in connection with fire that killed her five children EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — An East St. Louis mother has been charged in St. Clair County in the deaths of her five children in an apartment fire in August, according to online court records. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 4, 2021
Editorial: Information on Afghan debacle must be declassified so lessons can be learned Even as the Biden administration tries to close the book on U.S. misadventures in Afghanistan, it still has yet to open the books on embarrassing information that could expose how badly the 20-year stabilization effort was mismanaged. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 3, 2021
Jeff Gordon: College hoops season brings promise for Illini, questions for other area teams Illinois coach Brad Underwood has the only sure thing among the region’s Division I basketball teams. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 3, 2021
Ben Frederickson: MLB commissioner Manfred's legacy is at stake this offseason I recently read something hopefully encouraging about Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 2, 2021
Turn a good pumpkin into a Great Pumpkin with these 4 recipes Pumpkins aren't just meant for pie or playful evisceration. They are also a vegetable, a squash, and can therefore be eaten. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 1, 2021
Best Bites: Belvita Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Biscuits Sometimes for breakfast, I want something sweet as opposed to an egg or a piece of toast. But cinnamon rolls and doughnuts are too sweet. Enter the Belvita biscuit cookies. They taste of whole grain and rolled oats with a hint of sweetness. And this limited-edition pumpkin spice flavor makes… St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 1, 2021
Krug's power-play goal lifts Blues to 1-0 win over Blackhawks ST. LOUIS — Sooner or later, the Chicago Blackhawks are going to win a hockey game. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 31, 2021
Editorial: Allegations of Greitens campaign fund shenanigans have a familiar ring to them In what may qualify as the least-surprising development in Missouri politics lately, disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens stands accused of unlawful shenanigans with campaign money — specifically, of diverting state-level campaign funds to his U.S. Senate campaign, which isn’t allowed. Greitens is innocent until proven guilty, but his past campaign… St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 29, 2021
Minus O'Reilly, Blues suffer first loss of the season, 4-3 ST. LOUIS — For the first time since that blockbuster trade of July 1, 2018, there was no No. 90 jersey on the ice for the Blues on Thursday. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 29, 2021
Ben Frederickson: NFL owners finding out firsthand the risk of valuing Stan Kroenke's word Join the club. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 28, 2021
Benjamin Hochman: On the 10th anniversary of the David Freese homer, Gerald Laird’s celebration remains a symbol of St. Louis’ jubilation Ten years ago Wednesday, even your goosebumps got goosebumps. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2021
Lynn Schmidt: Curbing violence one dad joke at a time People ask me all the time why I consider myself a conservative. I can actually answer that easily in just two words: personal responsibility. There is a group of dads in Louisiana who are a wonderful example of just what I mean. St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2021
Editorial: If House members colluded with the Capitol rioters, expulsion is warranted Days after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters intent on overturning Trump’s election loss, freshman Rep. Cori Bush of St. Louis introduced her first piece of legislation, which called for the expulsion from Congress of any member shown to have colluded… St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2021
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2021 Editorial: Haggling over trillions while important goals get shoved aside Democratic negotiators appear close to a deal that effectively would halve the original $3.5 trillion asking price of the social spending bill originally advanced by progressives. Disappointment abounds among progressives who were hoping for maximum financial impact on the lives of lower-income Americans. But since no one anywhere has the…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2021 St. Louis-area police officer dies after being gunned down at gas station PONTOON BEACH, Ill. — A Pontoon Beach police officer has died after being shot Tuesday morning at a gas station.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 26, 2021 Ben Frederickson: Cardinals will have trouble fully turning page on Shildt until Marmol's Cardinals win bigger “Today is about Oli,” president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Monday morning while introducing Oliver Marmol as the 51st manager of the Cardinals.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 26, 2021 Editorial: Opposing views of the Holocaust? Texas law is due for a rework A new Texas law outlining exactly how social studies may be taught in public schools has introduced widespread confusion because of Republican politicians’ overbroad attempt to ban critical race theory from classrooms. The confusion reached such a level of absurdity that a Dallas-area school interpreted the new law, House Bill…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 26, 2021 Editorial: The federal bankruptcy system needs to declare itself morally bankrupt The federal bankruptcy system is morally bankrupt. The system has been abused by corporations and rich people to the point that it no longer upholds the mission it was designed for: providing a limited shelter from creditors so financially strapped individuals and companies could either liquidate or reorganize and put…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 26, 2021 Tarasenko scores two as Blues start season 5-0 for first time ST. LOUIS — To make everyone’s life easier in the 2020-21 NHL season, the league scheduled games in pairs last season, so a team would come to one city and play two games.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 26, 2021 Benjamin Hochman: New Cardinals manager Marmol says ‘a championship is the goal.’ The pressure is immediately on. The honeymoon is over.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 25, 2021 Why is Illinois' largest electric utility mining Bitcoin near one of its coal-fired power plants? WEST ALTON, Illinois — In farmland near the banks of the Mississippi River, the state's largest electric utility has stuffed a shipping container full of high-powered computers, in the shadow of one of its coal-fired power plants.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 25, 2021 Editorial: Add voting rights to the long list of worthy goals killed by the filibuster For the third time this year, Senate Republicans last week filibustered legislation that would have protected voting rights from GOP efforts around the country to restrict them. Democrats unanimously supported it this time, after the measure was scaled back to satisfy moderates. Yet the minority party was able to thwart…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 25, 2021 Editorial: Bannon’s subpoena defiance is illegal, yet the ‘law and order’ party defends it For anyone who still needs it, most Republican House members last week provided more evidence that the GOP — once the “law-and-order” party — is now the party that coddles criminals. By overwhelmingly voting against holding Donald Trump crony Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 25, 2021 Daniel Neman: Candies barred: Don't mess with candy perfection When Skittles announced it was going back to making one of its candies lime flavored, Colleen Schrappen was happy. She was ridiculously happy.