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CHICAGO — Two Illinois Lottery players are starting the week a whole lot richer after matching all five numbers in Sunday’s Lucky Day Lotto midday drawing, with each winning the game’s $300,000 jackpot. The winning numbers for the Lucky Day Lotto midday drawing were: 4-17-19-23-24. One winning ticket was purchased online, and the other at a Mobil gas station at 4002 W. Dempster St. in Skokie. For selling the winning ticket, the Mobil gas station will receive a $3,000

Amazon plans to hire 2,900 workers in the St. Louis metro area between October and December as part of a national initiative to add over 300,000 holiday employees.

At best, most Trump administration officials can be called “sycophants.” At BEST. But so many of them can be called a lot of other things a bit more insulting. We have a lot of shoe options to work with. Most of them fit multiple people. Rubes, hucksters, useful idiots, bigots, charlatans, window lickers, narcissists, anthropomorphic […]

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ST. CLAIR COUNTY - A motorcyclist was injured in a two-vehicle crash that closed both northbound lanes of Interstate 255 in St. Clair County on Tuesday morning, Oct. 20, 2026, according to preliminary information from Illinois State Police. The crash, involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck, occurred around 6:35 a.m. Tuesday near milepost 23, south of Collinsville Road. State police Troop 8 units are investigating. The cause of the crash was not provided. The motorcycle’s driver was take

GalaxyCon is scheduled to take place in St. Louis from Oct. 23-25 at America's Center, featuring a variety of celebrity guests, workshops, and fan activities.

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Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 19, 2026 — The Republican Party of Florida is suing a dozen TV stations in Central Florida, seeking to block a state Democratic Party election advertisement about the Hope Florida scandal, in which $10 million of federal Medicaid funds may have been misappropriated by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his former chief of staff, James Uthmeier — as well as reporting about the grand jury proceedings referenced in the ad.

Both DeSantis and Uthmeier, who is now running for attorney general, had spent hundreds of thousands in state funds to keep the grand duty report secret until it was leaked to a South Florida broadcaster in late August. Both men admonished media outlets for reporting on the leaked material, saying it was a crime. In the lawsuit filed on Oct. 16, the state GOP also threatened broadcasters with criminal prosecution for airing the material.

The lawsuit relies on a recent Florida appeals court decision ordering the grand jury report about the scandal expunged. But the requested injunction goes well beyond the court order, threatening news coverage and Floridians’ access to information about an affair that has dominated headlines in the Sunshine State for more than two years.

The following can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Deputy Director of Advocacy Adam Rose:

“Who would have thought Florida politics could be so swampy? The Hope Florida scandal has been headline news for months. Whether related grand jury records were improperly released has no bearing whatsoever on the First Amendment rights of the press. The Florida GOP should know that news outlets cannot be punished or censored for publishing information from whistleblowers, especially when the appellate court blamed a government employee for failing to keep it secret. The seminal Supreme Court case that says it’s not the job of journalists to maintain the government’s confidences literally has Florida in the name.”

The following can be attributed to First Amendment Foundation Executive Director Bobby Block:

“This lawsuit is an attempt to ride roughshod over the First Amendment by trying to bully broadcasters into silence. The 1st District Court of Appeal ordered the report expunged, but it did not order the media to stop reporting on information already made public. Expungement does not erase the First Amendment protections. Politicians do not get to decide what the press can report or what voters are allowed to know. The constitutional rights of Americans cannot be sacrificed on the altar of anyone’s political ambitions.”

Please contact FPF or First Amendment Foundation if you would like further comment.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has selected his warriors.The Hamilton creator announced the official cast for his and Eisa Davis’ new Broadway musical, Warriors, which includes Lanterns actress Jasmine Cephas Jones. The actress has…

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Actress Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurological and autoimmune disorder.Applegate, 54, made the revelation Tuesday in a new episode of the MS-focused podcast, MeSsY,…

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St. Louis officials will hold a public meeting on plans to replace the Laurel/Waterman Bridge over the MetroLink tracks in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood.

MACOUPIN COUNTY – Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a Gillespie, Illinois man who possessed and disseminated child sexual abuse material has been sentenced to 38 years in prison. The case is part of Raoul’s ongoing work, in collaboration with federal law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement officials throughout Illinois, to apprehend offenders who download and trade child sexual abuse material online. Robert L. Jones, 48, was sentenced on Monday by Macoupin County

When Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the Sydney Opera House on Oct. 20, 1973, Australia gained more than a striking addition to its harbor skyline. It gained a performing arts center that placed music at the heart of a national landmark. The ceremony remains a defining event on a date that also brought a Halloween standard, a devastating loss for Southern rock and important new chapters for Madonna and Amy Winehouse. Looking back on Oct. 20, 2026, those milestones reveal several ways music

On October 20, 1827, British, French, and Russian warships destroyed much of an Ottoman-Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino, off southwestern Greece. The battle changed the course of the Greek War of Independence by weakening the forces trying to suppress it. Although Greek independence still required further fighting and diplomacy, Navarino helped make an independent Greek state possible. Its lasting importance lies both in Greece’s emergence as a modern nation and in the way it showe

The upcoming special exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum explores the myriad ways that different cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, […]

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ST. LOUIS - Each month on FOX 2, we salute local first responders, military, or veterans with our Proud to Serve award. This month, we shine the spotlight on Jason Chapple who serves his St. Charles, MO community as a police officer and SRO. Jason was nominated by his friend who tells us Officer Chapple [...]