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ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Interstate 44 near Big Bend Boulevard will close for the weekend in both directions beginning Friday night for removal of the Big Bend bridge.

The number of viewers increased by 36 percent since last year and it was the most-watched local program in St. Louis since the Super Bowl.

For years, we’ve noted how telecom and media giants have been trying to force “big tech” to give them huge sums of money for no reason. The shaky logic usually involves claiming that “big tech” gets a “free ride” on telecom networks, something that’s never actually been true. This narrative has been bouncing around telecom policy […]

Grateful Dead spin-off group Dead & Company are planning to stop touring after 2022, unspecified sources have confirmed to Rolling Stone. The band, which includes three core Grateful Dead members…

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Red Hot Chili Peppers have joined the lineup for the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in place of Foo Fighters, who dropped off the lineup following the unexpected…

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St. Louis County Police are investigating after a 38-year-old man was shot and died Thursday afternoon in Moline Acres.

Owner Kurt Eller has been eyeing potential places to expand for several years.

An Illinois-based provider of linen management services that was organized by St. Louis-based Thompson Street Capital Partners now has a new majority investor.

The new “mini-fulfillment center” already employs 200 full-time and part-time workers, with another 300 expected to join the ranks over the next few months.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Home security company Safewise has released its annual report of the safest cities in the state. Several St. Louis area towns rank in the top ten. The list is created by examining crime rates calculated by the FBI. They also conduct a survey to find out how concerned people are about [...]

EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County homeowners can apply for up to $30,000 in assistance through the Illinois Homeowners Assistance Fund (ILHAF) starting Monday. “The state received federal funding to assist homeowners who are delinquent in paying their mortgage or about ready to lose their home due to the pandemic,” Madison County Community Development Chief Deputy Program Administrator Chris Otto said. Otto said the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) announced a $309 million fund that is available to help homeowners pay past due mortgage payments, property taxes, property insurance, and delinquent homeowner and/or condominium association fees. ILAF is targeting homeowners who have experienced financial hardships caused during COVID-19. Applicants must also currently own and occupy their home in Illinois as their primary residence, be at least 30 days late on their mortgage or other homeowner expenses, and have a household income at or below 150 percent of th

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GODFREY – With a three-day celebration for their grand opening and a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the RiverBend Growth Association, Reiniger Jewelers has officially arrived in the Riverbend. It is now open in the former Maneke Jewelers location in Alton at 1633 Washington Avenue. There were about 25 people on hand to join in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, including Alton Mayor David Goins and RBGA Member Engagement Director Stefanie Withers. The grand opening included refreshments, gifts for those who stopped in during its three-day celebration, a drawing for six different prizes, and the store’s grand prize of a $1,500 shopping spree. Owner and third-generation independent jeweler Paul Reiniger bought the Alton business from Charlie Maneke at the end of December 2021, just weeks after opening a third location in Effingham in November. “Paul knew Charlie was retiring in Alton, and he called him to see if he could buy any equipment for his new Effingham location

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WASHINGTON — Jon Zang walks his dog several times a day in his mobile home community in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. It’s quiet, as most of his neighbors are at work. But he often wonders how many more walks he and his bulldog mix, Ladybug, will have down the streets of the place he’s called […]

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Drivers will want to avoid a stretch of Interstate 44 this weekend in St. Louis County. Crews are shutting down all lanes in both directions at Big Bend Boulevard. The Missouri Department of Transportation began work to remove the Big Bend bridge over I-44 Friday morning. Crews started by closing the right lane in both directions to remove that bridge near Kirkwood and Crestwood. After rush hour Friday evening, crews will start closing all lanes of I-44 at the bridge for the weekend. Additional…

Major League Baseball teams, including the St. Louis Cardinals, will be able to sell space on their jerseys to sponsors beginning in 2023. Cardinals President Bill DeWitt this week shared details about the type of sponsor the Cardinals are looking to add to their jersey.

A month ago, we wrote about a bizarre, nonsensical, Twitter rant from Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma that followed a bizarre, nonsensical appearance at the CPAC conference in which he lashed out at “big tech” for supposedly “censoring conservatives.” This fact-free grievance has been an item of blind faith among the Trumpist set, that big […]

Here is Hilbert looking magnificently toward the future, which he envisions as a chicken in every pot and a thousand cans of cat food in every garage.

The biggest state budget in Missouri history could also leave the biggest surplus in state history when the next fiscal year ends. The Missouri House on Thursday sent 15 appropriation bills to …