An end is in sight to the heat wave cooking St. Louis with some of the hottest conditions it has ever recorded. But the area will first need to endure at least two more scorching days on Thursday and Friday.
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As some states wrap up this year’s summer food aid program, Missouri is still distributing last year’s benefits. Officials say they must complete dispersal by the end of this year.
The draft shows that the bill largely mirrors existing federal law on machine guns and other heavily regulated firearms. But it will not prohibit AR-15s as suggested, experts said.
Area officials in a variety of settings described the list of complications wrought by the heat, which on Wednesday felt like 113 degrees in St. Louis.
The funding, which will be distributed to the Illinois Department of Labor, comes from a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed through Congress and was pushed by Biden.
Six interagency law enforcement task forces received grant funding to combat car thefts through an initiative of Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office.