Artist and researcher Janna Añonuevo Langholz led the effort to establish a marker at the site of the former brutal “human zoo” in the 1904 World’s Fair.
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The university system's cost-saving measures will go into effect immediately as it faces economic stresses and federal policy changes. One key concern is potential cuts to research funding cuts from the National Institutes of Health.
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A federal judge accepted the joint dismissal of the lawsuit against Prairie State Generating Co. Both the coal plant and the Illinois Sierra Club praised the conclusion.
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Gospel Music Hall of Fame leaders hope to expand the museum from one building to a plaza, according to the first draft of a proposed master plan.
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The bill has been introduced for five straight years in the state legislature but failed to make it to committee hearings until now. Advocates’ hopes are high after it passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
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Dozens of people in the St. Louis region became sick after eating at catered events late last year. Lawsuits seek to tie the poisoning to a national vegetable company.
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The resolution now heads to the Missouri Senate. If it passes the legislature, it must receive voter approval to go into effect.
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Reports of a sexual assault in the jail led to an incident in February during which St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery ordered the jail’s acting commissioner, Tammy Ross, to be handcuffed.
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Democrats filibustered until 1 a.m. Thursday, when the Senate adjourned.
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The Missouri Historical Society lost $250,000 in grants cut by the Trump administration.
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