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Mayor Cara Spencer wants to delay a vote on a St. Louis data center project near the Armory until new zoning rules have been approved. -
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Currently under federal law, convicted people with drug charges are banned from receiving SNAP benefits. A proposed Missouri House bill would opt out of the federal ban. -
The new hospital replaces a 60-year-old facility and is bringing optimism about the fort's future to serve both the military and surrounding area. -
Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn. -
The number of fatal opioid overdoses has gone down in the last few years in Missouri, but the emergence of nitazenes — a class of potent, synthetic opioids – has state officials concerned.
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No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport's final weekend in consecutive years. -
Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy. -
The K-pop group has officially returned from its four-year hiatus bigger than ever. Based solely on first-week sales, there's only one artist who has done any better.
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The United States and Israel have been at war with Iran since February, when a series of air strikes killed Iran’s leader. Some of the planes being used in the conflict are headquartered at Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base. -
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Moberly High School's Spartan Fieldhouse opened last month for both students and the whole community.
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