The St. Louis Rams haven’t won a game this season. They have lost 16 in a row going back to last season. Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the last time they won a game. This team is being compared…

It’s time to leave the house, leave your troubles behind, and enjoy the changing fall leaves.

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A Curryville, Mo., couple’s love for children and a desire to help difficult-to-adopt children has resulted in a family large enough to fill a major league baseball team’s roster. Tom and Debra Ritter have three sons from previous marriages and…

Halloween is the next big shopping season that will test the mettle of retailers and give a sense of how the economy is doing. Early signals are mixed.

Local businesses, from costume shops to haunted houses to pumpkin growers, are pumping…

Another hopeful sign that the economy is improving occurred this afternoon when the Dow Jones industrial average passed 10,000 for the first time in a year. The Dow hit the mark in early afternoon and closed at 10,015.86, up 144.80…

Even without witnesses, Tim Cowell likely would have quickly figured out that the huge gouge in his cornfield near Valmeyer, Ill., wasn’t caused by aliens. Most “circles” trampled into fields are generally round, and often include complex patterns. The three-acre…

Motorists who normally drive over the Martin Luther King Bridge will be detoured for much of the next two weeks. The King Bridge has been closed to traffic in both directions through Oct. 24.

In an effort to make the bridge…

In a surprising decision that drew international praise and criticism, President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee called their choice an early vote of confidence in his initiatives to…

Over the years,  more and more Missouri schoolchildren are not getting all the vaccinations required to attend school. Although still only a fraction of total student enrollment, about 7,600 students got exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Five years earlier,…

Officials at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport have set aside nearly $1.7 million for an incentive program  to lure more flights. The funds will let Lambert temporarily suspend landing fees and rental costs to airlines that start service to new cities….