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St. Louis Cardinals catcher and DH Iván Herrera is headed to the MLB All-Star Game for the first time in his career.

A new addition to downtown St. Louis is nearing completion as developers put the finishing touches on the new Wash Ave Food Hall.

COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville Police Department said Friday, July 10, 2026, that investigators believe they have identified the parents of an infant abandoned at Cahokia Mounds, but also believe the parents have fled the United States. In a statement issued Friday, July 10, 2026, the department said the infant is healthy, safe and in the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Collinsville Police said they could not release additional information

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Crews have rescued more than 100 people from floodwaters in southern Missouri as of Friday afternoon, according to the Missouri Department of Public Safety.

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New York, July 10, 2026 — A New Jersey court partially upheld a prior restraint against a community newspaper and vastly extended it to apply to all members of the “press,” in a troubling new order issued on July 9.

Judge Thomas McCloskey had previously granted an emergency order that required New Brunswick Today to remove from its YouTube channel a security video from a local high school that it received from a confidential source and to refrain from writing about the video.

The video showed a school security guard confronting a student who tried to pass through metal detectors with an airsoft BB gun, causing the school to go into lockdown. The court’s previous order also prohibited the newspaper from publishing any other school security videos.

In a July 9 order, McCloskey refused to lift the prior restraint entirely, though he limited it in some respects. The order allows New Brunswick Today to publish and write about the video at issue, but only if it redacts the faces and other identifying information of minors from the video and refrains from identifying them in writing.

The order also requires New Brunswick Today to submit the redacted recording to the school district and court for approval before publication.

Most troublingly, the court also significantly broadened the prior restraint to apply to all members of “the press.” The July 9 order prohibits “the press” in general from publishing the video without redacting the identity of juveniles or including identifying information of juveniles when writing about the video.

The following statement can be attributed to Caitlin Vogus, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) senior adviser for advocacy:

“Forcing news outlets to delete or withhold information and to submit their work for government approval before they can publish is censorship, full stop.

“The First Amendment could not be clearer: Prior restraints are almost never allowed. Neither judges nor the law can censor the press. Yet that is exactly what Judge McCloskey’s order permits.

“Judge McCloskey was right to narrow his order against New Brunswick Today, but it’s outrageous that he’s extended it to purport to apply to any member of the press who wants to publish or write about this video. Judges should know better. By substituting the court’s judgment about what to publish for that of any news outlet, the court has flatly defied the First Amendment and decades of Supreme Court precedent.

“Even in cases that don’t involve core First Amendment concerns, judges aren’t kings — they have no authority to issue orders binding unidentified journalists across the country who aren’t in their courtroom or parties to any case before them.

“Similar orders have been overturned across the country. If New Brunswick Today appeals and higher courts faithfully apply the law, this one should be as well.”

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EDWARDSVILLE – Water bills for Edwardsville customers will increase later this year as the city faces its own rising costs related to water infrastructure improvements. Edwardsville City Council members approved an ordinance updating water service rates and billing procedures at their July 7, 2026 meeting with Alderman Chris Farrar absent. In addition to moving the city from bimonthly to monthly billing, the ordinance also raises the water rates for customers in and out of the city. Unde

MONROE COUNTY - Two Oklahoma residents, a 48-year-old pilot and his 22-year-old son, were found dead Friday, July 10, 2026, after their aircraft crashed in rural Monroe County, Ill., south of Waterloo, according to a joint statement from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, Waterloo Fire Department and Monroe County Coroner’s Office. Authorities said emergency agencies were dispatched at about 2:34 a.m. Friday, July 10, 2026, after reports of a possible aircraft crash. The search,

EAST ALTON - The East Alton Parks and Recreation Department held its Annual Touch A Truck event at Van Preter Park on Friday, July 10, 2026, drawing families to see emergency, utility, and service vehicles, according to Mayor Darren Carlton. Carlton described the Touch A Truck event as a “big hit.” He said a Survival Flight helicopter flew in and landed, and the event also featured an Ameren Illinois Power boom truck, fire trucks, a police car, an MCT bus, and a Trickey Towing

Fifteen states on Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school shooting at Marjory […]

A deadly shooting following an altercation on a MetroBus in north St. Louis County is under investigation Friday.

“A lot of traumatized people showed up here,” said Sharon Thomason-Sekyi, at Black River Lodge. In some cases, she added, “they’d been in trees since about 4 a.m.,” or saved from rooftops.