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A winning $2 million Powerball ticket was sold in Girard, Illinois, Saturday, Feb. 12.

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ALTON - Saturday, February 19 is a full moon and SVOUND™ is hosting a Celestial Moon + Tarot Soundbath at Jacoby Arts Center. "Energies are high and it's a beautiful time to look inward to see what we are ready to release and create new space for the things we want in our lives," said SVOUND™ creator Lisa Grezlak. "The moon plays such a beautiful role in our planet and our lives. Using the moon cycle is a powerful way to help us gauge things in our lives as change constantly swirls around us." Grezlak says, the tarot cards messages will provide intuitive ways that one can explore broader perspectives and understandings in their life. Sound vibration is used to promote a state of relaxation, ease, and openness. "Often we may find that thoughts, ideas, and insights that come to us during the soundbath are divine messages related to the card we receive. Join us this powerful evening to discover intuitive messages, release the old, set intentions for new things, and manifest

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The startup has established a new business segment called Connect, which focuses on providing homebuyers with a streamlined way to set up home utilities and services. Transactly’s launch of Connect stems from its September acquisition of a Dallas-based home connection services company.

GRANITE CITY – GCS Credit Union kicks off their 2022 Jeans Program, Don’t Stop Donatin’, by raising $1,520 for the Madison County Child Advocacy Center. GCS Don’t Stop Donatin’ Jeans Program focuses on supporting our local counties. Each month, GCS employees will donate to an organization within the 18 counties that GCS serves. The Don’t Stop Donatin’ Jeans Program is funded by GCS employees who make monthly, monetary donations out of their own pockets to a local organization. By donating $15 or more to a specific organization, GCS employees are able to wear jeans and tennis shoes on Fridays and Saturdays during that month. The Madison County Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is a resource for the brave children who are involved in abuse allegations. Through a confidential forensic interview, children are able to share their stories in a safe and supportive environment. CAC is dedicated to helping children and their families find hope and healing

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He was shot about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 1500 block of Hickory Lane, in the Clinton-Peabody housing complex.

EDWARDSVILLE – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s Cougar Baja team achieved 7th place at this year’s Blizzard Baja hosted Saturday, Feb. 5 at Michigan Technology University. The president of the SIUE Baja team, senior Samuel Churchill, of Ottawa, together with teammates Matthew Buchholz (treasurer), Curtis Lake, and Nathan Buss (secretary) competed against athletes from across the country. This year’s edition had a total of 22 cars competing in dual events of hill climb and a four-hour endurance race where all the cars raced wheel to wheel. “We did well considering our resources,” Churchill shared. “We were up against stiff competition with Michigan schools known for having car manufacturers’ support. The most challenging aspect was the low temperature of around 10-15 degrees and wind. After about a half-hour we had to swap drivers because it was so cold.” “The team worked together well and

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EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville Public Works announced on Wednesday morning it will be shutting down the water main in the 100 block of North Main Street at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday today to make emergency repairs. "At this time, we anticipate the repairs will take an hour and service will be restored upon completion of the repairs," Edwardsville Public Works Department said. "A boil order will be in effect at the time of the shutdown for the east side of North Main Street in the 100 block, and 101 and 103 North Main Street." For updates regarding the boil order, please visit: www.cityofedwardsville.com . Contact the Edwardsville Public Works at (618) 692-7535 with any questions.

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ST. LOUIS - An 11-month-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Zoe was treated for hip dysplasia at the Animal Medical Center of Mid-America (AMCMA) at the Humane Society of Missouri with stem cell injection therapy. The therapy known as BMAC was performed by Travis Arndt, D.V.M., director of the AMCMA. “Zoe’s owner was facing a decision [...]

If you're not familiar with the Free Law Project, you should be. It's a nonprofit that does everything it can to make access to court documents free. It all starts with the RECAP extension, which automatically saves copies of documents downloaded from PACER to CourtListener.com, giving people without PACER accounts and/or the funds (or patience!) to utilize the federal government's broken-down, overpriced system, access to federal court documents.

Unfortunately, the Free Law Project still has to play by PACER's exceedingly stupid rules, even when it's doing nothing more than automatically archiving documents accessed by PACER users with the RECAP extension enabled. The US Courts system continues to believe it needs to generate a profit, even when it does nothing more with millions in PACER fees than purchase new perks for the people who work for the court system or have the ability to actually visit federal courthouses.

That's not what PACER fees are supposed to be used for. They're supposed to be used to modernize the PACER system and eliminate barriers to online access -- the chief among those being fees. Instead, fees have increased while the front end of PACER -- along with its completely broken search function -- have mostly remained unchanged.

The US Courts PACER program has always been extremely mercenary, even when it's engaging in acts of temporary benevolence. Users can sometimes obtain fee waivers to lower the cost of accessing multiple documents. In this case, a researcher obtained a waiver and accessed thousands of court records. Great news for the beneficiaries of the Free Law Project's CourtListener site… or so you would think.

But that's not how this works, as the Free Law Project recently tweeted. [Threadreader version.] It had to delete thousands of court records this researcher legally obtained with a fee waiver because the federal court system says users with waivers can't do what they want with the data and documents they've obtained.

We scraped these records for a researcher using a fee waiver they got. According to the fee schedule, any content that you get while using such a waiver cannot be shared. This is the extremely absurd official policy:

If you can't read/see the embedded picture, it contains a portion of the restrictions on users who secure fee exemptions:

- the user receiving the exemption must agree to not sell the data obtained as a result and must not transfer any data obtained as the result of a fee exemption, unless expressly authorized by the court…

This means the Free Law Project downloads the content as instructed by the RECAP extension. Then it has to delete the content to comply with the user's fee exemption. Why does it have to do this? Because the federal court system says so. And why does the court system say users with fee exemptions can't share the documents with others? Well, I'm sure court reps would say several things in response to this question, but none would be as true as the answer once given to the Free Law Project:

Once, in a fit of honesty, a high-level member of the AO [Administrative Office] explained that the reason for this was because otherwise it would undermine the fee schedule.🤯

In other words, if researchers could share their raw data, the AO wouldn't make as much money off court data

PACER is here to provide access to court documents. But not without making some money first. Hence the numerous restrictions on seldom-granted fee waivers. As the Free Law Project points out, this is not how PACER is supposed to work.

Obviously, this contravenes the goal of PACER. It also makes reproducing research largely impossible.  

The documents were obtained legally. But the court system says it's against the rules for another party to continue to retain them. And now documents that could have increased the public's understanding of the court system have been vaporized because the government doesn't want the PACER money train even slightly derailed. And stupidity like this is only going to continue until PACER is deprived of its revenue stream with legislation making PACER access free.

Rain become widespread Wednesday evening and overnight, with a few non-severe thunderstorms possible into Thursday morning.

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards will headline the sixth annual edition of the star-studded Love Rocks NYC! benefit concert, which will take place March 10 at the Beacon Theatre in…

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Kevin Perkins is facing charges of second-degree murder, knowingly burning and tampering with evidence.

Wentzville School Board votes to keep a challenged book on library shelves after banning "The Bluest Eye" last month.

ST. LOUIS - A penthouse apartment is for sale in the Central West End for nearly $900,000. The building located at 110 North Newstead Avenue was built in 2001. Apartment 304 is listed at $899,000. The seller was an original buyer of the 12-unit building. He is the last of the original buyers to sell. [...]

Back in September I asked: If each U.S. Senate primary candidate held a Texas Hold ‘Em starting hand, what would they be, and why? Five months later, it’s time for an update.  But first, the rules. In Texas Hold ‘Em, two cards are dealt face down to each player, while five “community cards” are dealt […]

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