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The Missouri General Assembly's budget calls for boosting the Missouri Technology Corp.'s budget tenfold. But it remains to be seen if Gov. Mike Parson will approve the budget hike.

One man is dead and a woman and 3-year-old boy injured following a train and truck collision in Kimmswick.

HARDIN - Jerry Sievers and Calhoun Entertainment Company have provided a great touch of culture and exposed theater for many in the county over the years. Ellie Nolte played the part of Ariel in the spring “Little Mermaid” production, which was a rousing success. Scotty Browning played Sebastian and Craig Johnson was King Triton. Nora Delaney and Sophie Cotner were Flotsam and Jetsam and Emma Godar was Ursula. Anna Eberlin played Flounder and Teresa Goetten was Scuttle. the lead male, Jackson Cotner was the lead male and played Prince Eric. Sievers started his quest with the entertainment company in 1989. “Little Mermaid sold out every night except the first night,” he said. “We had a great cast and the show was amazing. We started this group as an outlet for adults and then kids to perform." “Musicals are once a year at the Center for Archaeology, the old Kampsville Grade School, a Christmas concert at the Hardin Presbyterian Church Hall on th

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Police said in some cases the suspects put stickers for baby wipes on expensive items and scanned them for a cheaper amount at self-checkout.

Beginning May 21, the company will stage four different operas, opening roughly one week apart.

Take a load off and take in the views on a relaxing daytime cruise that shows St. Louis from the river that built it. Narrated

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LITCHFIELD – Illinois State Police (ISP) District 18 Commander, Captain Mark Gillock, announces the results of a Roadside Safety Check (RSC) held in Greene County from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on April 24. The RSC was conducted at IL-267 @ IL-108, by District 18 officers. Violations Enforcement Activity Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Citations 0 Other Alcohol/Drug Citations 3 Occupant Restraint Offenses 2 Registration Offenses 8 Driver’s License Offenses 1 Insurance Violations 0 Total Citations/Arrests 8 Total Written Warnings 23 Alcohol and drug impairment are factors in more than 30% of all fatal motor vehicle crashes in Illinois, and throughout the U.S., nearly 10,000 people die each year due to alcohol-impaired driving. RSCs are designed to keep our roads safe by taking dangerous DUI offenders off the road. This project was funded through the Illinois Department of Transportation.

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Some of the characters in John Grisham's debut novel A Time To Kill will be spending some time in St. Louis. The author of best-selling legal thrillers is releasing "Sparring Partners" later this month. The city's iconic skyline is featured prominently on the book's cover. The story follows fictional lawyer Jake [...]

WEST FRANKFORT – Centerstone, a not-for-profit health system specializing in mental health and substance use disorder treatments, will host a free, virtual Road to Resiliency training on May 25 from 10-11:30 a.m. While learning the definition of resilience and how trauma impacts our ability to be resilient, participants of this webinar will take a dive into assessing their resilience traits and the five strategies for building their inner strengths. Objectives of the training include: Define the concept of resilience and assess our own resilience traits Look at how trauma exposure impacts our ability to be resilient Gain a deeper understanding of resilience characteristics and traits Learn five key strategies for building on your own inner The presenter of the training will be Amber Anderson, the prevention specialist with Prevent Child Abuse Illinois. This training has 1.5 hours of continuing education approved for IL LCPC / LPC, IL LCSW / LSW, and IL Nursing (LPN,

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URBANA – Every spring, magnolia trees across the Midwestern landscape offer some of the most spectacular flowering displays of any woody plant. These beautiful ornamental trees, native to Asia, are some of the first landscape plants in our area to deliver such a showy display; truly one of the most endorsing signs that spring is finally here. Most of Illinois’ native, deciduous trees are primarily wind-pollinated and many bloom even earlier than magnolias, although often unnoticed by many of us says University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator Ryan Pankau . Their strategy is to produce a lot of pollen in the hopes that wind dispersion will spread their genes far and wide. Wind pollinated species do not need a showy display to attract pollinating animals or human attention. They typically lack aroma and nectar which, along with color, are the primary means plants use to attract pollinators to their flowers. “Since most of our native trees, like oak, ash,

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BLOOMINGTON - Health officials are working to learn more about a concerning outbreak of the serious liver disease in children in Europe and the United States. Reported cases of “acute hepatitis of unknown origin” in young children continue to climb. According to the latest data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, there are 450 reported cases worldwide, which is nearly double the 228 cases the World Health Organization reported last week. This includes three cases in Illinois. So far this outbreak has resulted in dozens of hospitalizations around the globe and has required liver transplants in some children, while 11 have died. The children’s ages range from one month to 16 years old. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently working with health departments across the country to identify children with hepatitis of unknown cause. Researchers are scrambling to find the cause of this illness,

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ST. LOUIS - Starting next week, visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo will not need to make a reservation. Reservations will stop being necessary on May 23. They must still be made until May 22. Reservations started to be required at the zoo in June 2020. The zoo's extended summer hours began Friday. The Zoo will [...]

As you’ll recall, last Wednesday, the 5th Circuit surprised lots of people by immediately reinstating Texas’s ridiculous content moderation law that basically creates an open season to sue large social media sites for any moderation choices those sites make. The surprise wasn’t necessarily the judges’ decision, which had been telegraphed two days earlier via the […]

A St. Louis Fire Department crew went to a two-story property in the 6000 block of Maple Avenue this week to find out as much as they could about the building without going inside.

Here's a chart of COVID-19 deaths that has long puzzled me: This shows COVID deaths, so it's fairly reliable. What it shows is that, generally, the US has been about average compared to other similar countries except for three specific periods: Summer 2020 Autumn 2021 Winter 2022 In two cases, we have spikes that were ...continue reading "There are three puzzling eras in the US COVID-19 timeline"

ST. LOUIS - The Blues are moving on to Round 2 of the playoffs and the schedule has been released. The Blues start the series at Ball Arena in Denver against the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. Game two will be played there at the same time on Thursday. Games 3 and 4 [...]

The exhibition, on view through July 9, brings together 21 American artists across disciplines.