{"id":457425,"date":"2026-02-14T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457425\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:37:15","slug":"evening-briefing-in-st-louis-february-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457425\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing in St. Louis: February 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, St. Louis. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n

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The heat sticks around through early next week with highs in the mid-90s through Monday. The heat dome looks to break down by midweek as storm chances increase. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Soulard preparing for Mardi Gras parade\u00a0<\/p>\n

The streets of Soulard are decked out in purple, green and gold for the 47th annual Mardi Gras Parade Saturday. Event officials say tens of thousands of people are expected to attend. Attendees should arrive early, since the parade route closes to foot traffic an hour before kick off 11 a.m Saturday. No cans, coolers or backpacks are allowed in the festival zone. Tickets and Grand Parade details can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Applications open for St. Louis Supplier Readiness Accelerator<\/a><\/p>\n

Greater St. Louis Inc.\u2018s Supplier Readiness Accelerator program is now open for\u00a0applications<\/a>\u00a0until March 15. Small businesses looking to join a larger ecosystem by integrating into a corporate supply chain can take advantage of this 12-week cohort-based accelerator program.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0St. Louis Blues young star shines at Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n

Multiple St. Louis Blues are representing their home countries in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina but it\u2019s the team\u2019s rookie who stole the starlight this week.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Mo. Independent: Missouri House once again approves bill clarifying divorce rules during pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0bill<\/a>\u00a0seeking to clarify that Missouri women are legally allowed to get divorced while pregnant received unanimous approval Thursday from the House for the second year in a row. State Rep. Cecelie Williams, a Republican from Dittmer who sponsored the legislation with Democratic state Rep. Raychel Proudie of Ferguson, emphasized the dangers of keeping women legally tied to abusers for an extended time.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Hawley pitches bipartisan bill on data center costs to consumers<\/a><\/p>\n

As outrage spreads over\u00a0energy-hungry data centers<\/a>, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies \u2014 and not regular people \u2014 must foot the bill for the exorbitant amount of electricity required for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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Following late January\u2019s major snowstorm and the early\u2011February arctic chill that gripped the Show\u2011Me State, the thaw has revealed an unwelcome sight across many lawns: snow mold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, St. Louis. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,40,4,4093,534,84,17220,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-457425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-blues","15":"tag-stl-evening-briefing","16":"tag-stlouis","17":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116066428236496714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}