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ALTON - As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 717 State Street, Alton, Illinois will be celebrating a special Blue Mass to honor current, retired, and deceased first responders and military. This Mass will be held at Saints Peter and Paul Church at 6:00 pm on Thursday, September 10th with Father Jeff Holtman as celebrant. This special Mass will serve as a solemn and inspiring opportunity to pray for the safety, strength, and guidance of those

Police said the two men knew each other.

Boeing in St. Louis has been awarded a $131.23 billion contract in support of F-15 Eagle Crest operations.

ALTON - Alton Middle School students have a new opportunity to start training in the medical field. New this year, the middle school is offering a class called Medical Detectives that will allow students to study diseases and simulate diagnosing patients while using real medical equipment. The class is part of Project Lead the Way, which encourages students to think about their career options. “It’s still early in the semester, but I have high hopes for it,” said teacher

CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) launched Illinois' Opportunity Zones 2.0 – a statewide initiative to identify and nominate the next group of federally designated Opportunity Zones that will help attract private investment to communities across Illinois. When a low-income community is designated as a Qualified Opportunity Zone through the federal program, it encourages private investment that promotes job creatio

CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting mail-in voting to take effect: “The Supreme Court’s decision allowing Donald Trump and the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with this unprecedented attempt to interfere in our elections is deeply troubling. “We are weeks away from voting in the midterms and the President i

Commissioner of the Office of Administration Ken Zellers served under three governors

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)—led her fellow SASC Democratic colleagues in urging Committee Chairman Wicker to hold a hearing to investigate the Trump Administration’s failures to support our servicemembers who are carrying out indefinite extended deployments in the unauthorized, disastrous Iran war that President Trump cannot seem to end. In a letter to Chairman Wicker, the Senators

Just before 5:00AM on August 24th, 2026, District 3 officers responded to a call for an accident on I-55 northbound before the Arsenal exit. When they arrived, they discovered what is believed to be an adult male had been struck by multiple vehicles and died on scene.

The post Fatal Accident Investigation Leads to Discovery of Murder-Suicide appeared first on St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

Two people were grazed by bullets. Several homes and cars were also damaged by gunfire, police said.

EAST ST. LOUIS/FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS — Kiante M. Brooks, 32, appeared in federal court last Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, and will remain detained pending trial on a federal bank robbery charge after authorities said he allegedly robbed a bank Aug. 13, 2026, in Fairview Heights, Illinois. Brooks is facing one count of federal bank robbery. According to court documents, Fairview Heights police received a call around 5 p.m. on Friday from a local bank teller who advised police that a co-worker was being

The league was also stopped from registering voters last year before the decision was reversed.

The post Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.

A new job, a breakup, a move across town, even a child starting school can leave a person oddly unsettled long after the event itself is over. The change may be small on paper. Yet the mind often treats transition as something much bigger: a loss of what was familiar, a test of identity, and a search for what comes next. Why transition feels harder than it looks People often talk about change as if it were a simple event. You quit, move, graduate, marry, retire, recover, or begin again. But

Officials exempted the tornado zone when it ended a five-year pandemic moratorium on shutoffs in the rest of the city last September.

This Day in Music History: Aug. 25 Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run arrived on Aug. 25, 1975, as the record that changed a talented but commercially uncertain New Jersey songwriter into a major American rock voice. His third album, released by Columbia Records, paired crowded, cinematic arrangements with stories of restless young people seeking a way out. The result gave Springsteen and the E Street Band a defining statement, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and eventually earned a