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Advocates blast Trump campaign against in-state tuition for immigrants

16 hours 22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — Leading immigration advocates and experts sounded the alarm Wednesday on the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to undo state laws allowing some immigrants to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they reside.  The U.S. Department of Justice has sued 24 states, Washington, D.C., and the University of Delaware since President Donald Trump […]
Shauneen Miranda

Bethalto Students Complete School Beautification Project

16 hours 23 minutes ago
BETHALTO - Bethalto Community Unit School District #8 students recently learned important life skills while building new decorations for Civic Memorial High School. Teachers Allyssa Schmidlkofer and Jeremy Christenson worked together to teach a Civic Memorial life skills class how to complete a basic maintenance project that doubles as new decor for the high school. The students painted two pillars in front of the school to look like giant pencils. As part of this, they went shopping, measured

OSF OnCall launches virtual dermatology service for faster skin care

16 hours 25 minutes ago
A new virtual dermatology service from OSF OnCall offers a way to get skin conditions diagnosed without an in-person appointment. For one Central Illinois woman, it meant finally getting relief from a problem she had been dealing with for months. Susan Scott of Groveland, Illinois had been dealing with red, itchy and scaly skin around her eyelids all summer. She tried over-the-counter ointments, but nothing seemed to work. And as a busy mom with children's medical appointments to juggle,

Passenger Dies After Vehicle Rolls Over In Pontoon Beach

16 hours 57 minutes ago
PONTOON BEACH — A backseat passenger died after being ejected from a vehicle that lost control during a lane change and rolled over on Illinois Route 255 on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, according to Illinois State Police. The Illinois State Police said Troop 8 units responded to the single-vehicle crash at approximately 3:55 p.m. Wednesday in the southbound lanes north of Illinois Route 162, near milepost 30, in Pontoon Beach in Madison County. ISP said preliminary investigative details indicate

Federal agents raid Kansas City USPS distribution center

17 hours 8 minutes ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — FOX4 received a tip that federal agents raided the U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Kansas City, Missouri, last month. The tip comes right after a FOX4 Problem Solvers report that aired Tuesday about customer complaints with postal service distribution centers across the metro. FOX4 has confirmed with the U.S. Postal Service [...]
Bella Caracta

How Autumn Colors Shape Mood, Memory and Meaning

18 hours 16 minutes ago
The same red can make a warning sign feel urgent and a maple leaf feel comforting. Color does not carry one fixed emotional message. Its effect depends on where we see it, what surrounds it, and the memories we bring to it. That helps explain why autumn’s reds, oranges, yellows, and browns can feel cheerful to one person and quietly sad to another. These colors appear in parks, clothing, shop displays, and home decorations. They can draw our attention, stir familiar associations, and chang

Documents show DHS probed nonprofits, obtained millions of records in hunt for noncitizen voters

18 hours 23 minutes ago
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups. The reports from May and June by Homeland Security Investigations, a sub-agency of Immigration […]
Jonathan Shorman

Oct. 8 in Music History: Jerry Lee Lewis, John Lennon, Prince and More

18 hours 24 minutes ago
On Oct. 8, 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis recorded “Great Balls of Fire” in Memphis, Tennessee, giving early rock ’n’ roll one of its defining performances. His forceful piano playing and charged delivery demonstrated that a keyboard could command the same attention as an electric guitar. Looking back on Oct. 8, 2026, that session begins a sequence of milestones in which musicians challenged expectations about what popular music could sound like — and what it could say. Lew