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Architecture firm HOK said Wednesday it will relocate its office within downtown St. Louis.

Donald Trump's administration hasn't even started and he's already suffered his first loss: Senate Republicans chose Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to be their new leader, rejecting an outside pressure campaign from Donald Trump’s allies to break with the establishment in the secret-ballot election, according to two people familiar with the vote. Thune, a ...continue reading "John Thune elected new Republican leader in the Senate"

A St. Francois County man appeared in U.S. District Court on Wednesday and was sentenced on federal charges in a child pornography investigation.

A mother and her son face felony charges after a bar fight involving shots fired last month in north St. Louis County.

Ramesh Ponnuru says Elizabeth Warren might be responsible for high inflation: In 2021, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) led the fight to keep President Biden from reappointing Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve.... Former Fed official Randal Quarles has said that uncertainty about the Fed’s leadership delayed the central bank’s response to rising ...continue reading "Once more on the Fed and inflation"

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced the establishment of the first-ever Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) within the Attorney General’s office, launching Illinois’ first targeted effort to evaluate the integrity of convictions throughout the state. The CIU will investigate claims of actual innocence to determine whether new, credible evidence substantially proves the innocence of individuals serving time for crimes they did not commit. “Over the past five years, we have worked with state’s attorneys, appellate justices, the Department of Justice and others to establish a unit within my office that would solely focus on reviewing wrongful convictions, seeking relief when warranted and preventing the devastation caused when someone is wrongfully convicted,” Raoul said. “Wrongful convictions destroy lives, diminish faith in our criminal justice system, and put victims and the general public at risk, as true perpetrators of crimes

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Rosenblum Schwartz Fry & Johnson guides clients through a helpful checklist to ensure personal injury victims are best represented.

Sammy Hagar is teasing fans with some big news. The rocker just shared videos on social media of him and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony in the studio, adding the caption,…

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Global architecture firm HOK will leave its downtown St. Louis office for bigger digs just a few blocks north.

Ed Hassinger has been with the Missouri Department of Transportation for 40 years.

What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.

ALTON - An Alton resident has been charged with the sexual abuse and assault of a 10-year-old victim. Bryden A. Barnes, 20, of the 1700 block of Belle Street in Alton, was charged on Nov. 7, 2024 with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child (a Class X felony) and aggravated criminal sexual abuse (a Class 2 felony). From Jan. 1 to July 31, 2023, Barnes allegedly sexually assaulted and abused a victim who was 10 years old at the time of the incident. According to a petition to deny Barnes’ pretrial release, In July of 2024, the victim in this case disclosed to a medical provider that she had been sexually abused by Barnes when she was 10 years old. She detailed the incident in an interview with the Madison County Child Advocacy Center on July 30, 2024. Barnes was interviewed by Alton Police Department on Nov. 6, 2024. During his interview, he “stated that he was wrestling” with the victim and admitted to committing the acts of sexual abuse and assault.

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BRUSSELS — Brussels CUSD #42 today celebrates our staff and students as the Illinois State Board of Education releases the 2024 Illinois Report Card, a detailed look at student performance data from the 2023-24 school year. Our students achieved above the state average in all areas. These gains reflect the district’s investments in staff professional development, college and career readiness and student achievement. “Our staff’s dedication to meeting the needs of each student in and out of the classroom has led to our high school being one of the top 10% in the state,” said Superintendent Dr. Nancy Bitner. “Our elementary school is building strong foundations that contributed to both the high school’s exemplary designation and their own commendable designation. At Brussels we have placed a high value on meeting every student where they are and providing support to ensure they are meeting their full potential.” Brussels also saw no

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Public Notice & Notice of Comment Period for Florissant’s proposed Substantial Amendment #2 to the Fiscal Year 2019 Community Development Block Grant – Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) Annual Plan The Substantial Amendment will be available for a 5-day review starting Tuesday, November 12, 2024, and will run thru Saturday, November 16, 2024.                   A 5-day COMMENT PERIOD […]

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EAST ST. LOUIS — The Illinois State Board of Education recently revealed the spring 2024 Illinois Report Card to update the public on how each school and district are progressing on a wide range of educational goals. IllinoisReportCard.com is the state’s official source for information about public schools across Illinois. One primary element of the School Report Card is the annual summative designation, which indicates how effectively schools are meeting the diverse needs of all students. Summative designations are calculated by assigning each school points across a range of academic and student success indicators, such as graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, and academic growth. Schools can receive one of five designations: Exemplary, Commendable, Targeted Support, Comprehensive Support, or Intensive Support. Of the East St. Louis School District’s 9 eligible schools*, 7 were awarded a COMMENDABLE designation by the State of Illinois in 2024. “We

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At a House of Representatives committee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena Wednesday, lawmakers are hearing from a number of witnesses about what they have seen and heard about UFOs.

For a few hours on Wednesday, Republican Andrew Bailey was considered among the frontrunners to be nominated as President-elect Donald Trump’s next U.S. attorney general. Just a week after winning his first full term as Missouri attorney general, Bailey reportedly spent time with Trump at Mar-a-Lago interviewing for the job, according to numerous sources close to the attorney general and multiple media reports. But by Wednesday afternoon, Trump made his choice official, and it wasn’t Bailey.…

Well, these entities deserve each other. The problem is we really don’t deserve either of them. Trump spent a lot of his campaign touting a logistical nightmare of a policy that sounded a lot like an collapse-of-the-Weimar-Republic sort of thing: the mass detention and deportation of immigrants, whether they’re here legally or not. All that’s […]

Washington University and the Cortex tech district secured a key endorsement Wednesday for their request to receive $4 million in tax increment financing to help fund a new lab development.