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The contract covers 120 teachers at Bishop DuBourg, Cardinal Ritter, Rosati-Kain and St. Mary’s high schools in St. Louis and St. Pius X High School in Festus.

New data on opioid deaths among Black St. Louisans show fatal overdoses up by more than 500% since 2015. A physician and a researcher with the new CENTER Initiative discuss what they’re doing to reduce those deaths.

ALTON - Basketball and athletic talent seem to be in the blood of the Stotler family. A new Stotler talent, that of 12-year-old Bishop, emerged recently when he cracked one of the more significant marks in Riverbend Community Center games. Bishop recorded a record 135 on the NBA Hoops Game, a remarkable feat. Bishop's grandfather, originally of Bethalto, was a University of Missouri football defensive back/placekicker on the 1969 Missouri team. Nic Stotler, Bishop's dad, was a standout basketball player for Civic Memorial High School and then Illinois State University. Bishop's mom, Amanda, who she said was not a college athlete, but excels more in the artistic arena, is so proud of her son not only for his basketball shooting skills but what kind of young man he is already. "Bishop was really happy about breaking the Community Center NBA Hoops Game record," she said. "He broke it first one week, then went back and broke it again." Bishop said without a doubt, that he loves basketball

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ALTON - The YWCA Southwestern Illinois 31st Women of Distinction Celebration will be held on Thursday evening, April 28 at Julia’s Banquet Center, 101 Eastgate Plaza, East Alton, IL 62024. The deadline for reservations is Friday, April 22, 2022. Doors will open at 5:15 p.m., with the event starting promptly at 6 p.m. The community is strongly encouraged to attend the gala event and meet 2022 Women of Distinction Honorees and the Josephine Marley Beckwith Future Leaders scholars. Tickets are $65 per person or $520 per table of eight. Reservations can be made online at www.altonywca.com , at YWCA, 304 E 3 rd Street, Alton, or by calling (618) 465-7774. Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the event as well. Each year, some of the region’s brightest, boldest, and most influential women are honored at YWCA’s Women of Distinction celebration. The women honored at this event represent a diversity of women’s interests, talents, and achievements in support

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ALTON - Laura Greenwood had her day in the sun on Friday at Lewis and Clark Elementary in Alton when she was honored with a permanent "Buddy Bench" for the school playground in her honor. Laura retired last year after 34 years in the school district. Through donors and other contributors, the "Buddy Bench" was purchased. Laura said she wants the bench to be a place for students when they want to sit or a place where they can invite someone else to play or just talk. Laura's daughter, Cathryn Greenwood Zerkel followed her mother's footsteps in education and is a teacher assistant for seventh graders in the Annex Building at Alton Middle School. "It truly meant a lot to finally be able to honor my mom for her years of service to the Alton School District," Cathryn said. "My mom taught and had loyalty to not just the district but to Lewis and Clark Elementary. She spent her entire teaching career there. "I mentioned how long she taught there and asked students questions about having

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The press release from the sheriff's department said the remains appeared to have been there for several months.

It's the time of year when bad weather moves into the Gateway City and fills our four-legged friends with anxiety.

Attorneys for the three defendants have argued that the men were not aware of the severity of the storm and did not intentionally put their passengers in danger.

A jury found Jerome Tolliver guilty in February of domestic assault and armed criminal action in a 2018 shooting that left his girlfriend at the time paralyzed.

 As nurses, my husband and I witnessed truly awful and devastating things treating patients on the frontlines of this pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died, while millions who …

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City Foundry STL — the popular retail, entertainment and food hub in midtown St. Louis — has 16 food stalls, with another on the way. Sauce Magazine Executive Editor Meera Nagarajan gives her recommendations. She also details a new restaurant to try in West County and one in St. Charles.

ST. LOUIS - The U.S. National Weather Service in St. Louis announced Wednesday afternoon that the forecasts they made earlier in the morning regarding severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the area didn't pan out as severely as expected. “It’s frustrating for us and you when our forecasts don’t go as planned,” the weather service stated in a Facebook post . “So much thought and energy goes into our forecasts, we don’t take tornado or severe thunderstorm forecasts lightly. “When things like this happen we take a critical look at what went wrong. Many aspects of this event favored severe weather, but a few critical details did not develop.” Early Wednesday morning, the weather service predicted severe thunderstorms, high-speed winds, high potential for tornadoes and golf-ball-sized hail in the St. Louis area of southeastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois from about 11 a.m.-4 p.m. “This morning started out

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The 41st edition of the annual Fourth of July celebration will be held July 2-4 at Kiener Plaza and Ballpark Village.

A 19-year-old is facing multiple felony charges for allegedly striking a pair of Eureka police officers with a stolen car.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner will likely face a reprimand, but not lose her license to practice law, as a result of alleged misconduct during the investigation of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.

A proposed state ban would ax the state's remaining red light and speed cameras.

It must be tax season, because here we are yet again talking about Intuit and the company’s skullduggery when it comes to offers for “free” tax filing. You can go back and look at the plethora of posts we have done on all of this. The quick summary for you is that Intuit has deceptively […]