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Missourians rejected another abortion ban. Republicans say they’re not giving up yet.

16 hours 19 minutes ago
Missouri Republicans spent two years trying to reinstate an abortion ban. They emerged from Tuesday’s election with fewer ways to do it β€” and no plans to stop trying. About 55% of voters rejected Amendment 3, preserving the constitutional right to abortion approved in 2024. Voters also approved Amendment 6, which sharply limits lawmakers’ power […]
Anna Spoerre

First Fridays Returns to Downtown Alton Nov. 6 With Late-Night Shopping and Art

16 hours 26 minutes ago
ALTON - Alton Main Street presents First Fridays, a late night art and shopping experience which spans many locations across the Downtown Alton district. This series is held on the First Friday of October, November and December, providing shoppers with an opportunity to check out new shops and galleries and visit familiar favorites to experience art and great specials at each business. Participants are offering a variety of discounts, refreshments, and giveaways. Every time you make a purchase

How Harvest Seasons Shaped the Food We Eat

16 hours 29 minutes ago
How Harvest Season Shaped Meals A feast and a pickle jar solve the same problem: what do you do when more food arrives than you can eat? One turns abundance into a shared meal. The other saves it for later. Both reveal how deeply the harvest shaped what people cooked, when they gathered, and what they considered worth celebrating. Before refrigeration and reliable long-distance transport, the arrival of ripe crops changed daily life. Households had to feed workers, process fresh ingredients,

Nov. 6 in Music History: Sex Pistols' and Aerosmith's First Show, Queen's Farewell and Jay-Z's 'American Gangster'

16 hours 30 minutes ago
A small art-school performance in London on Nov. 6, 1975, helped set the stage for a major upheaval in popular music. The Sex Pistols played their first show at St. Martin's School of Art, beginning a performing career that would make them central figures in British punk. The significance was not a polished debut or an immediate commercial breakthrough. It was the arrival of a band whose confrontational approach helped challenge assumptions about who could make music and what rock could express.

Altars and Kites Inspire Spanish Students Remembrance at Jersey Community High

16 hours 46 minutes ago
JERSEY - Jersey Community High School Spanish students honored loved ones who have died with altars, kites and traditional bread this week during a Day of the Dead celebration in Jersey Community Unit School District No. 100. Students created ofrendas, or altars, made and flew barriletes, or kites, baked pan de muerto, or bread of the dead, and more. The activities marked a week focused on Hispanic culture and remembrance. Day of the Dead, known in Spanish as Día de los Muertos

This Day in History: November 6 β€” Lincoln's Election, the October Revolution and More

17 hours 8 minutes ago
This Day in History: November 6 On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States, bringing a long-running conflict over slavery to a turning point. Lincoln opposed slavery’s expansion into federal territories, and leaders in several Southern states viewed his victory as a threat to their political power and slaveholding society. Secession followed, and civil war began the next spring. The election did not itself abolish slavery, but it set events in motion

Still focused on D.C. projects, Trump signs order preserving Oval Office

17 hours 25 minutes ago
WASHINGTON β€” President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to establish the Oval Office and White House Cabinet Room as a national monument in order to prevent any major renovations to those spaces that are not approved by Congress. Trump, who tore down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom, […]
Ariana Figueroa