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Auction of ancient Egyptian relics averted

ST. LOUIS – The renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased a collection of 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to auct...

DATE: Oct 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Ferguson reforms met with rancor at city meeting

FERGUSON, Mo. – Efforts by city leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer to repair the local government’s fractured relat...

DATE: Sep 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mo. teen never charged with a serious felony

Attorney: Effort to obtain records is ‘character assassination’

DATE: Sep 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Protesters call for police reforms

Demonstrators in St. Louis seek review board

DATE: Aug 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Holder shares ‘humilating’ experiences with police

ST. LOUIS – Attorney General Eric Holder sought Wednesday to reassure the people of Ferguson about the investigation into Michael Brown’s death and said he understands why many black America...

DATE: Aug 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Summer melt’ can evaporate college ambitions

Many first-generation students fail to follow steps after acceptance

DATE: Jul 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Erratic B.B. King performance makes fans blue

ST. LOUIS – At 88, blues guitarist B.B. King is a living legend, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with his own satellite radio channel and a string of blues-themed restaurants in New York, Las ...

DATE: Apr 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

MLK streets struggle still with poverty, crime

ST. LOUIS – A walk down the six-mile city street named for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yields plenty of images that would surely unsettle the civil-rights leader: shuttered storefronts, ...

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Teacher house calls lift student achievement

Program improves test scores, attendance, parental involvement

DATE: Dec 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

Police stun stepdad trying to save his son from fire

ST. LOUIS – The family of a 3-year-old killed in a northern Missouri house fire is outraged after police used a stun gun on the boy’s stepfather as he tried to run back in and save the child...

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

When smaller is more fulfilling

College presidents leave large schools to escape big-time sports scandals

DATE: Nov 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

Rally begins against unpaid internships

A nascent campaign against employers’ use of unpaid interns is taking aim at what critics call some of the longstanding practice’s biggest enablers: colleges that steer students into such pr...

DATE: Aug 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World