ALTON - Tickets are on sale now for the third annual Great Rivers & Routes Craft Beverage Festival celebrating local beverage producers and restaurants Saturday, Sept. 12 from Noon to 5 p.m. at Grafton Winery The Vineyards, 21028 Eckert Orchard Rd., Grafton. New this year is a VIP Experience which provides VIP ticketholders with early access to the event and signature event swag including a wine tote filled with a bottle of wine from Grafton Winery, a small jar of Ecker’s apple butter
On July 23, one of the most important events in modern world history took place in 1952, when Egypt’s Free Officers Movement began the revolution that ended the rule of King Farouk. The uprising was led by a group of young military officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Muhammad Naguib, who believed the monarchy had become ineffective, corrupt, and too closely tied to foreign influence. At the time, the revolution mattered because it reshaped Egypt’s government and power structure.
From 2019 to 2023, 340 Missourians died while pregnant or within a year after pregnancy. Of those, 108 deaths were classified as pregnancy-related — meaning caused or aggravated by the pregnancy itself — and nearly 80% of them were preventable. The findings were part of the sixth annual Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, published this month by […]
The Trump administration claimed a rare court victory for its embattled immigration detention policy when an appeals court, covering three states with large detention centers, agreed to stay court rulings that freed three Texas immigrants during an appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a terse July 21 ruling, agreed to stay three […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans passed a measure to curb stock trading by members of Congress that was packaged with an unrelated voter ID bill, part of President Donald Trump’s push for major federal involvement in elections. The legislation passed by a vote of 232-198. All Republicans and 13 Democrats voted in favor. The bill faces […]
Last month I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring how Republicans had hijacked the Biden-era infrastructure bill to redirect billions of dollars away from next-generation fiber, and instead funnel it into the pockets of billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — in exchange for congested, expensive, satellite broadband service they’d already planned to deploy. […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House on Wednesday approved their outline for the third party-line budget measure of the second Trump administration, though they won’t be able to begin work on that package until they reach agreement with their Senate colleagues on a plan forward. The 216-214 vote on a budget resolution sets up […]
For weeks, the city attributed the disruption to "server issues." On Wednesday, communications manager Jared Jones told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that UCity's network was targeted with "malicious intent."
WARREN COUNTY, Mo. - Emotions could run high Thursday night as a crowd is expected to attend a Board of Aldermen meeting focused on an asphalt plant that could be built in the area. Some residents are upset that city leaders approved the facility to be built near their homes. As it stands now, the [...]
ST. LOUIS - A new report indicates St. Louis is among the large American cities seeing declines in crime. The 26-page report was released by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on criminal justice policy. The report examines 13 different types of crime across 36 U.S. cities. In St. Louis, the [...]