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New playgrounds accessible to children with and without disabilities are planned in St. Charles and O’Fallon, with the help of a St. Charles County agency.

The county Developmental Disabilities Resource Board on Oct. 22 approved matching grants of up to $250,000 apiece…

A story in today’s Post-Dispatch reports that, according to a nationwide study, folks from the St. Louis area are the country’s best tippers.

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Do you tip 15 percent? 20 percent? More? Have you ever stiffed your…

(UPDATED WITH REVISED FIGURES RELEASED NOV. 2 BY MISSOURi-AMERICAN WATER)

Typical residential customers of Missouri-American Water Co. in St. Charles County would pay 23.7 percent more a month under a rate boost requested Friday.

Under the company’s request to state regulators, the average home customer…

Come February, O’Fallon residents should expect any trash or recyclable material placed curbside that does NOT fit into carts provided by the city will be left right there—curbside.

The City Council on Thursday unanimously passed a new ordinance that, after much…

Rain, rain, go away.

That’s the sentiment around the O’Fallon, Mo., Police Department, where hundreds of case records are heading to the shredder after being damaged by flooding.

Major Kyle Kelley says recent rains have caused some flooding in the basement where…

More than three months after his predecessor’s executive assistant left the city payroll, O’Fallon Mayor Bill Hennessy says he hasn’t decided whether he’ll fill the position.

Hennessy

“For the rest of this year, probably not,” Hennessy said. “After that, we’ll take a look…

Rebecca Prost

An O’Fallon, Mo., woman is accused of sneaking through the open garage door to steal a wallet from a purse, police say.

Rebecca Prost, 19, of the first block of Staunton Way, has been charged with first-degree burglary.

Shortly before 5…

The search for a new O’Fallon, Mo., police chief and city administrator has been narrowed to just five candidates for each position.

In-person interviews are to begin later this month for the remaining five people still in the running for both…

New fire Chief?

The auction item offered the winner the chance to be fire chief for a day in the O’Fallon Fire Protection District, and Barbara Arnold knew she had to win it for her son.

“He has been obsessed with fire…

O’Fallon is holding a roundtable discussion on a proposed campaign to persuade more residents to start recycling.

The roundtable discussion will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the City Council chambers at O’Fallon City Hall, 100 North Main Street. Its purpose,…