ST. CHARLES — The winner of the tied St. Charles City Council race will be randomly drawn out of a container, officials said Wednesday. View life in St. Louis through the Post-Dispatch photographers' ...

It started with the mysterious discovery of more than a hundred turtles, some with their shells smashed, others dismembered, all of them dead. It ended with a potential warning for the future. It was ...

Financial-services providers are rushing to create private-credit benchmarks that can help investors better evaluate deal performance—and perhaps alleviate rising concerns about the health of the ...

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised $24 million in new funding on a $300 million valuation to accelerate the delivery of its ...

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Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...

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Once endangered, the global green sea turtle population is rebounding, according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. There are about 20,000 endangered species in ...

More than half of the world’s 359 turtle and tortoise species now face extinction, with the crisis worsening despite global conservation efforts. Asia is the epicenter of the crisis, accounting for 32 ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off the coast of Argentina. Jorge, a 60-year-old, 220-pound loggerhead turtle, ...

Parents in Worcester fought to protect their small elementary school twice in recent months. Last fall, when the Washington Central school board began talking about potentially closing the central ...