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CHICAGO – An Illinois iLottery player is celebrating a life-changing win after taking home $955,540 playing the FastPlay™ Cash Castle game. FastPlay games continue to deliver wins for players across Illinois. Building on the weekend’s momentum, two additional players also won major prizes online yesterday. One player won $364,673 playing Twenty 20s and another won $259,783 playing Luxury Loot. Cash Castle is a $30 progressive FastPlay game. The jackpot begins at $100,000

GRANITE CITY – A local man has been charged with allegedly using a shovel as a weapon in his third felony case of battery this year in Madison County. Brandon L. Williams, 30, of Granite City, was charged on Oct. 30, 2026 with a Class 3 felony count of aggravated battery. Williams allegedly knowingly struck another individual on the head with a shovel without legal justification on Sept. 3, 2026. The victim reported being attacked by Williams and another individual following a verbal disagreement,

Federal officials on Monday announced $10 billion in awards across all 50 states in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Fund, grants created by Congress to bolster rural health in response to concerns about Medicaid cuts. That includes $218 million for Missouri. Texas received the largest grant for the 2027 fiscal year — […]

Common holiday ED visits and how to avoid them (part one) Key takeaways: When hanging holiday decorations, work with someone, and use equipment as intended. When walking on ice, be like a penguin. Wear gloves or mitts when cooking around hot surfaces. Keep an eye on kids playing with toys that can be choking hazards. Know the Heimlich maneuver. If a child swallows a battery, get them to the emergency department. Author's note: This is part one of a two-part story about holida

Bad blood no more.Taylor Swift sat next to her former best friend Karlie Kloss while observing her husband, Travis Kelce, play in Sunday's Kansas City Chiefs football game.Swift and Kloss…

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Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell achieved every baseball player’s ultimate dream this October as he helped lead the Brewers to the franchise’s first-ever World Series championship. That victory is an experience that very few people will ever have. What is far more common, however, is the condition Mitchell had to manage throughout his team’s postseason run. Mitchell is one of more than two million Americans living with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a chronic autoimmune

St. Louis County officials have closed Lone Elk Park indefinitely to ensure public safety and minimize animal stress during the current elk mating season.

ALTON/HARDIN — Patchy fog reduced visibility to a quarter-mile in some St. Louis-area river valleys early Monday, Nov. 9, before giving way to a forecast of sunny, mild weather, according to the National Weather Service in St. Louis. The fog affected parts of the region, particularly river valleys and low-lying areas, through 9 a.m. Submitted photos from the Mississippi River area and a recently submitted image focused on the Joe Page Bridge in Hardin showed the difficulty caused by reduced

James Gunn and Peter Safran are exiting DC Studios.The pair are unexpectedly stepping down as CEOs and chairmen, Gunn confirmed in a statement shared to his Instagram on Monday.ABC Audio…

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In a rare move, a 14-year-old accused of shooting and killing a teen at a school track meet will be charged as an adult.

ALTON - Carson Klasner of Marquette Catholic High School earned a sectional berth with a fourth-place finish at the IHSA Class 1A cross-country regional at Trenton Wesclin during the 2026 season. Klasner finished in 16 minutes, 35 seconds, placing among the top five to advance to the sectional meet in Murphysboro. A sophomore during the 2026 cross-country season, Klasner also broke the school’s cross-country record and won the Gateway Metro Conference championship. Blake Marth, the head

Democrat Budzinski, from Springfield, Illinois, represents parts of Madison, St. Clair counties. She was reelected last week with about 63% of vote.

St. Louis police said that an officer shot and killed a man Monday morning after responding to a domestic assault call.

I now look like an alarmist. I assumed everything done by the Trump administration prior to the midterm elections was designed to swing the election towards MAGA. For that, I don’t apologize. It definitely was. However, I routinely assured readers that the weird shit being done by the administration was just laying the groundwork for […]

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