News item No. 1: The Craftsman Truck Series race at the Milwaukee Mile has a name, eight months after it was confirmed as part of the NASCAR schedule announcement last fall and roughly 3½ months before the race occurs. News item No. 2: The Milwaukee company that has been the title sponsor for the ARCA race at the Mile for the past two years will be back for a third. News item No. 3: Ahead of the IndyCar doubleheader at the Mile on Labor Day weekend, one of the bars...

The career criminal accused of fatally shooting a New York Police Department officer in the stomach during a routine traffic stop pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday morning, more than a month after the incident.Guy Rivera, 34, was hospitalized after he allegedly inflicted a mortal wound on Officer Jonathan Diller, 31, and fellow officers returned fire. He was still wearing a brace on his wrist when he arrived handcuffed in court and had visible scars on his face. He had a buzzed head and goatee and was wearing a...

PREHISTORIC CATCH – A fisherman from Kentucky reeled in a monster-sized, 200-pound alligator snapping turtle in Texas; he also caught a massive alligator gar that has been submitted for a world record. Continue reading...RISE OF RHUBARB – Rhubarb explodes across rural America in May. The rare perennial plant is a vegetable that's treated more like a fruit, and its harvest is celebrated with festivals around the country. Continue reading...AMERICAN CULTURE QUIZ – From country music to major hit songs, how vast is your knowledge? Continue reading...GIFTS FOR MOM – As...

On May 7, 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allies on the battlefield in France, setting of a celebration in St. Louis. The following day, President Harry S Truman made the official announcement on the radio, saying "the flags of freedom fly all over Europe." Here is a look at how the Post-Dispatch covered the news in a special Extra edition.

Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on May 15, 2023. Google will begin removing links to California news websites from search results for some Californians in response to a bill that would require online ad companies to pay a fee for connecting state residents to news sources. In a blog post on Friday announcing the "short-term test," Jaffer Zaidi, Google's vice president of global news partnership, said the bill, called the California Journalism Preservation Act, represents "the wrong approach to supporting journalism" and "would create a...