Most people never heard of Veryl L. Riddle. When he died Dec. 6, at age 89, there was hardly a mention. But Mr. Riddle was a leading lawyer in St. Louis who helped build Bryan Cave into a powerhouse of 800 lawyers. A service will be held Tuesday.

This morning at 4:26 St. Louis time, the pope placed a red hat on Timothy Michael Dolan making him a cardinal. Dolan bowed his head so the pope could place the biretta on the Maplewood native’s head. A huge smile broke over the German pontiff’s face.

WASHINGTON – In the past five years, each of Missouri’s 115 counties has been hit by at least one weather disaster. Webster County is among 10 counties nationwide struck most often by extreme weather, with 10 declared disasters since 2006.

Gov. Jay Nixon's effort to implement the recently enacted Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act, also known as MOSIRA, has hit a snag with a judge's decision that the bill is unconstitutional on procedural grounds.

Catherine Hanaway hasn't held office since 2005 when she stepped down as the first GOP speaker of the Missouri House in four decades. At Lincoln Days, she was honored as Republican of the Year -- perhaps to encourage her to run for office again.

Just a few short months ago, the race for lieutenant governor was a sleepy subplot in an election year filled with high-stakes contests. But the landscape of that contest has changed -- leading to an expanded Democratic field of four candidates, all women. The fact of an all-female field hasn’t been lost on political observers or the candidates themselves.

Performances at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts will blur lines between art, theater and social work to break down barriers among people and communities. Also coming up this week: Oscar Wilde at the Botanical Garden, "Servy-n-Bernice 4Ever' at SIUE, and a festival of lesbian and gay plays.

The author of a study on national arts funding says she believes the money contributed to the arts will grow as institutions address more people. But the recession has dealt a harsh blow to arts organizations in this area.

Jake Cruzen’s “Nikki and Jan” at Los Caminos asks the view to consider two very different pieces and work through their relation. The connection will be different for everyone.

Gov. Jay Nixon's effort to implement the recently enacted Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act, also known as MOSIRA, has hit a snag with a judge's decision that the bill is unconstitutional on procedural grounds.

The health-reform law is hotly debated, but it is now delivering benefits to 1 million in Missouri and 2.3 million in Illinois: preventive services, ranging from colonoscopies to mammograms, that had required co-payments.

Whenever Dr. Aislinn Vaughan or Dr. Julie Margenthaler perform lumpectomies, each predicts a 20-to-30 percent chance the patient will undergo a second operation to remove undetected cancer cells left behind. A second operation is not a good

The press generally applauded this month when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to require the U.S. Supreme Court to televise proceedings.

Imagine that you are a doctor, a basic internal medicine physician. Your job is to help people stay well if they are well, and to help them get well if they are sick. Instead of seeing your patients one at a time, though, you see them in groups of 25.