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Mold levels in check despite slow snow melt in St. Louis

5 days ago
The large piles of snow around the region have been slow to melt thanks to continued cold temperatures. While snow blankets the ground, mold levels should stay in check. But when temperatures warm up is when we may see those increase as well.
Jaime Travers

Senate strikes deal to avert partial shutdown

5 days ago
The Senate struck a deal to fund a large portion of the government on Thursday evening, just a day before a shutdown deadline. The agreement will split the bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) off from a "minibus" package of five other major funding bills. The Senate will instead move a stopgap bill [...]
Al Weaver

'For once, the system did not look away': IL officials react to Sean Grayson sentencing

5 days 1 hour ago
ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- On Thursday, former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of 36-year-old Sonya Massey. In response, leaders throughout the state reacted to the news. The Massey Commission was created in 2024 by Sangamon County Board Chairman Andy Van Meter and Democratic State Senator Doris Turner to discuss, [...]
Molly Sweeney

A former Illinois deputy is sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Sonya Massey

5 days 1 hour ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had dialed 911 to report a possible prowler outside her Springfield home. Sean Grayson, who is white, was convicted in October of second-degree murder in a police brutality case [...]
JOHN O'CONNOR, Associated Press

St. Louis police set for another 7% pay raise

5 days 3 hours ago
St. Louis police officers are set for another pay increase after the St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA) reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, union officials announced this week.
Alex Barton

The long hunt for hidden gold and treasure in the Ozarks

5 days 4 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For more than a century, people across the Ozarks have believed that untold wealth lies hidden beneath their feet. Spanish silver sealed in caves. Civil War gold buried to keep it from bushwhackers. Outlaw loot hidden along wagon roads. Maps passed down through families. Diaries discovered decades later. Men who dug, searched [...]
Kathryn Skopec