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St. Louis Police Board to meet Wednesday after judge denied police funding

6 days 16 hours ago
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners is set to meet Tuesday to consider a controversial raise proposal for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The meeting comes after a judge ruled against the police board in a critical funding dispute with City Hall over how much general revenue should be used [...]
Nick Gladney

Comfortable summer weather rolls on, scattered weekend storms

6 days 17 hours ago
ST. LOUIS - Lower humidity and tons of sunshine, sounds like amazing June weather to me. We saw that on Tuesday and we’ll see it again on Wednesday, tons of sunshine, a comfortably cool morning, and highs in the low 80s. It will be warmer, but still dry, on Thursday. Top temperatures will be in [...]
Angela Hutti

East St. Louis solar project could cut utility bills by 40%

1 week ago
Thousands of East St. Louis residents could soon see substantial reductions in their utility bills, potentially by up to 40%, through a new community solar project. The initiative aims to transform a former industrial landfill into a source of free and discounted energy for the city.
Taylor Harris

Illinois girl healthy 10 years after liver transplant

1 week ago
10 year old Braylee Frankford of Carlinville, Illinois returned to St Louis Children's Hospital last week for an important checkup. She received a liver transplant as a baby. This exam will check to see how her liver is functioning 10 years later.
Mandy Murphey

Millstadt gardener fights weed citation

1 week ago
A Millstadt gardener is challenging a village citation that labeled her half-acre garden as high grass or weeds, arguing the plants are intentionally cultivated and protected under Illinois law.
Chad Mira

FAA restricts drone flights in St. Louis for FIFA World Cup

1 week ago
The Federal Aviation Administration has implemented temporary flight restrictions for drones in St. Louis from May 29 to July 21, impacting remote pilots around sites related to upcoming FIFA World Cup events. St. Louis is one of 12 cities affected by these stricter drone rules.
Patrick Clark

Rep. Bell visits constituent in Louisiana ICE detention center

1 week ago
Missouri Representative Wesley Bell traveled to the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, a facility being used as a U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) detention center, to visit Boanerges Flores-Bravo, a St. Louis resident who was detained by ICE on May 18 during a scheduled immigration meeting.
Natalie Schaefer

Illinois Senate panel advances bill on transgender, abortion prescription tracking

1 week ago
Senate Bill 4834 would remove testosterone from the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program, a database created to track potentially addictive controlled substances, and would prohibit state officials from adding estrogen, abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol, and puberty‑blocking or hormone‑suppressing drugs to the system.
Jim Hagerty