State Rep. Ray Reed has reintroduced legislation designed to ensure that Missourians with Deferred Action for Childhood ...

The United States launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups it claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) in Nigeria, ...

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On the night of Dec. 31, 1862, under cover of darkness and winter cold, groups of Americans of African descent — some free, others still enslaved — gathered quietly across the country. As the Civil ...

I remember college as a place of possibility. We protested — yes — but we did so with sit-ins, with leaflets, with raised voices and locked arms. We marched and we sang “We Shall Overcome Someday.” We ...

Tennis star Venus Williams and Italian actor Andrea Preti tied the knot in a romantic wedding in Palm Beach. They exchanged vows on Saturday, December 20, after a five-day celebration with their ...

Blaine Reid graduated on Dec. 19 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri College of Engineering. Reid, a Kirkwood native, earned her undergraduate electrical ...

There is no stopping what’s in some people’s hearts. With expert care and a fierce commitment to her own healing, Geri Lynn Arrindell turned a health crisis into fuel — and recently crossed her 100th ...

There is no stopping what’s in some people’s hearts. With expert care and a fierce commitment to her own healing, Geri Lynn Arrindell turned a health crisis into fuel — and recently crossed her 100th ...

Long before television audiences knew him for the line that became a cultural catchphrase, Isiah Whitlock Jr. was a disciplined, magnetic stage actor whose work carried the weight, humor, and humanity ...

This week’s column was supposed to be a celebration of a wonderful little toy store in a joyful Midwestern town. A store that, heartbreakingly, is scheduled to close this week. But circumstances ...