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  • St. Peters
    St. Peters
    noun
    a town in E central Missouri.
  • St. Peter's
    St. Peter's
    noun
    a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.

St. Peters

1 American  

noun

  1. a town in E central Missouri.


St. Peter's 2 American  

noun

  1. a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.


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Kelker-Kelly died Saturday evening at his home in St. Peters, Mo., the city’s Police Department confirmed Monday to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Authorities have released no details about the man killed or the officers, and no one has responded to messages left Wednesday with Wentzville, St. Charles and St. Peters police departments.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

A county official told News 4, a St. Louis TV station, that emergency dispatchers were overwhelmed with water rescue calls, mostly from the St. Peters and O’Fallon areas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

St. Peters police said the suspect drove away from the convenience store in a car that was later found near Interstate 70 in nearby O'Fallon, Missouri.

From Fox News ● Dec. 29, 2021

John Filmore Deposeth and Saith That he was in the harbour of St. Peters when Mr. Minotts scooner was run away with, by which scooner he was afterwards taken.

From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson

Pope Leo extended an olive branch to them last October by celebrating mass in Latin at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Local farmers were involved in the Hedges and Edges project and planting also took place in community spaces such as Kirkby Lonsdale Football Club and St. Peter's Church in Askham.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

“This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” Leo said during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

At a peace vigil at St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, Leo said that that a “delusion of omnipotence” is fueling the war that has left thousands dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

In the largest funeral procession in the town’s history, thousands paid their respects as Fannie’s and Starzeleski’s bodies were borne from St. Peter’s Catholic Church to the Union Cemetery.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

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