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It comes one day after Major League Baseball and its players' union agreed on a collective bargaining agreement to end a lockout.

The new store is anticipated to open in November 2022, just in time for the holiday retail season.

How Hurricane Michael fueled fires in the Panhandle.

LIVINGSTON - A Belleville woman has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence causing death and driving under the influence causing great bodily harm in the traffic death of a child and severe injury to another. Laura Schmittling, 28, pleaded guilty to the two counts with no agreement as to her sentence. The crimes each carry a sentence of between three and 14 years in prison. A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date. Schmittling was southbound on Interstate 55 when the Chevrolet Malibu she was driving went off the road and hit a guardrail, then ended up on the left lane. A tractor-trailer truck swerved to avoid the Malibu but side-swiped a Ford Focus in an adjacent lane. Another big truck then hit the Malibu. Court documents said tests showed she had methamphetamine, amphetamine, and marijuana in her system. A 4-year-old and a 6-year-old in the Focus were also injured. Schmittling was originally charged with three counts of aggravated driving causing death, three counts

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A month ago, the controversial EARN IT Act sailed through a markup hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. If enacted, the bill would strip the providers of online services of Section 230 immunity for their users’ child sexual exploitation offenses, meaning they could be subject to civil suit by private plaintiffs and criminal charges under state law. The idea is that […]

A portion of the Marathon Pipeline is leaking crude oil into the Cahokia Canal.

Marcus C. Robinson, Normandy Schools Collaborative superintendent, announced Wednesday he is resigning and will leave the district at the end of the school year.

Simmons Hanly Conroy attorneys represented 76-year-old Missouri man diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer decades after replacing asbestos-containing brakes ST LOUIS – Simmons Hanly Conroy , one of the nation’s largest mesothelioma law firms, has secured a $20 million verdict against Ford Motor Company on behalf of Missouri resident William “Bill” Trokey who was diagnosed in 2020 with mesothelioma, a rare and fatal cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Mr. Trokey was exposed to asbestos starting in high school during the 1960s while working at a service station in St. Louis. He suffered repeated asbestos exposures to the toxic dust while servicing asbestos-containing brakes manufactured by Ford Motor Company. The jury found that Ford failed to warn Mr. Trokey about the dangers of asbestos and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million to his wife, Cathy, for loss of consortium. “After examining hundreds of pieces of evidence,

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In January 1993 a woman's head was discovered along a road near Ina, Illinois. The identity of the human remains was a mystery until new forensic tools made it possible.

Previously, the grocery chain had shortened its operating hours and its specialty counter hours beginning Oct. 4 as it said it was dealing with labor shortages and customers' changing shopping habits.

A bill meant to tie the hands of St. Louis-area officials who want to require building owners to install electric vehicle chargers cleared the Missouri House Thursday.  If passed, it would prohibit …

DuckDuckGo, of course, is a popular “alternative” search engine, using Microsoft’s Bing as its underlying search engine but then doing a bunch of generally good stuff for the wider internet/public, such as not trying to collect as much information on you as possible for tracking based ads, but focusing instead of intention based ads around […]

ST. LOUIS--The St. Louis Board of Aldermen on Friday gave final passage to a bill that supporters hope could lead to lower juvenile obesity rates. Board Bill 207 makes water, low-fat milk, and juice the default options for drinks in restaurant meal offerings. "This is in no way a mandate," the bill's sponsor, Alderman Sarah [...]

When we got invited to opening night at Wally’s in Fenton, it was a no-brainer. Who wouldn’t want to visit an I-44 gas station?…

My old phone spontaneously disintegrated a couple of weeks ago, so I got a new Pixel 6 Pro. I didn't get it for the camera, but it does turn out to have a great camera. This picture of Charlie and Hilbert isn't as sharp as I get with my regular camera, and the resolution isn't ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 11 March 2022"

Def Leppard recently filmed a scene for an upcoming movie titled Bank of Dave, which is expected to eventually premiere in the U.K. on Netflix, the Lancashire Telegraph reports. The…

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Today on TAP: Some of it is purely opportunistic. We need an excess profits tax and maybe price controls.

Good news! Thanks to Obamacare, medical debt is way down. But not everywhere: This is from a study published in JAMA a few months ago. In states that expanded Medicaid, serious medical debt (i.e. debt in collections) has been cut in half. In states that didn't, medical debt has stayed about the same. And needless ...continue reading "Medical debt is way down thanks to Obamacare"