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Illinois State Police To Conduct Nighttime Enforcement Patrols

4 months 3 weeks ago
COLLINSVILLE – Illinois State Police (ISP) Troop 8 Commander, Captain Casey Faro, announces the ISP will conduct Nighttime Enforcement (NITE) patrols in Madison and St. Clair counties during December. NITE patrols allow the ISP to focus on preventing, detecting, and taking enforcement action in response to impaired driving and occupant restraint violations especially between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. The number of unrestrained drivers killed in traffic crashes is significantly higher

John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting

4 months 3 weeks ago
Not that long ago, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insight from UPenn media professor Victor Pickard, whose work on the (many) problems with modern consolidated U.S. corporate media has always been essential reading: But Oliver also walked the talk. […]
Karl Bode

This weekend's Weather: Chilly with late snow Sunday

4 months 3 weeks ago
Friday starts chilly with a high of 39 and a low around 28. Expect intermittent clouds and southern winds around 7 mph, gusting up to 14 mph. It will feel a bit colder, with a feels like temperature dropping to 24 in the morning, warming to about 37 in the afternoon. Friday morning brings a mix of sun and clouds, becoming partly sunny with mild wind in the afternoon. Overnight, skies stay partly cloudy with lows near 28. Winds shift to the west-southwest at about 7 mph with light gusts. Saturday

Some patients are just learning about Cerner health data breach in January

4 months 3 weeks ago
In January, hackers gained access to a cache of Cerner electronic health records stored on a legacy network. But some patients whose sensitive health and financial information may have been exposed are only now being notified β€” and many others still haven’t been told. NKC Health, formerly North Kansas City Hospital, is one of the […]
Suzanne King

Feds seize thousands of 7-OH products from Kansas City warehouses

4 months 3 weeks ago
Federal agents this week seized 73,000 products containing 7-hydroxymitragine, commonly known as 7-OH, from three Kansas City-area warehouses. The seized products included things like power bars, pills and liquids shots that are made with a concentrate of 7-OH, which is the main opioid-inducing element in kratom.Β  The action came out of a partnership between the […]
Rebecca Rivas

Why America is losing the fight against preventable disease

4 months 3 weeks ago
This past summer a young mother purchased raw milk for her family after seeing it promoted online. Tragically, she not only lost her 20-week pregnancy, her young son required hospitalization and surgery due to a severe Campylobacter and E. coli infection linked to the raw milk. Her story illustrates a painful truth: parents trying to […]
Darcy Wooten, Priya Pal