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A proposal raising the age to purchase or use tobacco products from 18 to 21 would bring the state in line with federal law.

Demond Williams picked up a young girl in 2020, had sex with her, gave her drugs and forced her to have sex with others for money, his plea agreement says.

EDWARDSVILLE – Renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump of Ben Crump Law and Attorney Jennifer Hightower stood with the victims of the deadly Amazon warehouse collapse that occurred on Dec. 10, 2021, when tornadoes touched down in Edwardsville, during a Tuesday news conference at Mount Joy Baptist Church in Edwardsville. The mother of DeAndre Morrow, who lost his life that day, spoke about the loss of her son for the first time. On April 26, 2022, OSHA issued a hazard alert letter to Amazon, detailing critical and potentially life-saving improvements to be made at the Edwardsville warehouse, where six contractors were killed and many were traumatized when this tragedy occurred. Crump and Hightower also had PTSD victims Jamarco Hickman, Evan Jensen, Jada Williams, and Deontae Yancey present at the press event. Deandre Morrow’s mother, Deon January, said Amazon told her son to remain in the warehouse even with knowledge of a potential devastating

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CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today joined a multistate coalition of eight attorneys general urging President Biden to fully cancel federal student loan debt owed by every federal student loan borrower in the country. The coalition urges the president to immediately exercise his authority under the Higher Education Act to cancel the more than $1.7 trillion owed to the federal government by student borrowers. “Without action, the student loan crisis will continue to get worse, stifling economic activity and weighing down families with mountains of debt that they cannot afford to repay,” Raoul said. “While long-term reforms to the student loan system are desperately needed, I urge the Biden administration to take action that will provide immediate relief to student loan borrowers.” In their letter , Raoul and the coalition argue that a full cancelation of student debt is necessary to address the sheer enormity of debts owed, systemically

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Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to air pollution. In conjunction with the start of the Clean Air Partnership’s... Read More

For what it's worth, you should ignore all the folks talking about how badly Roe v. Wade was written. I've read plenty of commentary on this, and even liberal scholars mostly agree that Blackmun did a lousy job. But it doesn't matter. The opinion could have been written by John Marshall himself and no one ...continue reading "Nobody cares how badly Roe was written"

Police said about 18 cars were broken into sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Last week, 29 were broken into at the same garage.

Missouri is the only state where lawmakers have not at least passed a congressional redistricting plan.

ALTON - It won’t be long before the new McDonald’s opens its doors at 717 East Broadway in Alton. Construction started in mid-March and has progressed in a quick fashion, Alton Mayor David Goins said. The Bold family owns this McDonald’s and others around the region. Much of the structure is in place with the foundation, plumbing, and more for the new restaurant. The McDonald’s in Alton was destroyed in a terrible fire on June 18, 2021. The next step is simply to finish the inside and install the new equipment. Mayor Goins said he has heard sometime in early summer the restaurant will open to customers. “The construction appears to be going well,” Mayor Goins said. “I am encouraged by all the work being done to bring it back to functionality. “We are encouraged that all the workers will be able to come back to their jobs. It will definitely be a boom in that area once it is up and running again. Many people stop by McDonald’s

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After the success of her podcast “Dr. Death,” medical journalist Laura Biel dove into the case of a St. Louis-area woman named Sarah Delashmit, who left a trail of fraud and heartbreak going back decades. Biel discusses what she uncovered, and her new podcast chronicling the bizarre case, “Sympathy Pains.”

Eighty years after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the remains of a St. Louis sailor killed that fateful day are coming home for burial.

A company spokeswoman said "we are unable to speak to personnel matters that involve past or current team members." Here's who's leading the company now.

This week entails a Star Wars-themed night, a place to find your zen and the opening of an award-winning play. Thursday 05/05 Planet Fun

Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah said the city has spent about $7 million to fix the locks on one floor of the City Justice Center and has three more floors to go.

A bipartisan bill aimed at improving student literacy morphed into an omnibus education package after it was passed out of the House Monday night with amendments dealing with open enrollment, …

There's not a ton of state-by-state polling on abortion, but when Roe v. Wade is overturned and control of abortion law is returned to the states this is suddenly going to become very important. Here is a Pew survey from 2014 that asks whether abortion should be legal or illegal in "most or all" cases. ...continue reading "Raw data: Views on abortion by state"

Last week, in partnership with Engine, we launched our startup policy simulator game Startup Trail. The game puts you in the shoes of a founder trying to build a successful startup, and facing the many difficult policy decisions that entails without running out of money, losing all your users, or ending up with a company […]

Pearl Jam paid tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins during their concert in San Diego Tuesday. As noted by SPIN and captured in fan-shot footage posted to YouTube,…

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