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Karen Foss, Cindy Preszler and other news personalities joined the crowd Thursday night at the Missouri History Museum.

On Thursday, the California Senate’s appropriations committee was set to review a collection of anti-internet bills to see which ones should move forward. It decided to drop one that was particularly terrible: AB 2408, which would allow basically any California prosecutor (local or state-level) to sue companies for “addicting” kids (with addiction being extremely loosely […]

Two people have died and two others are hurt after a head-on crash Thursday evening in rural Missouri.

The next “big thing” in the forecast is a weather system that should bring heavy rain and storms back to parts of Missouri and possibly Illinois Monday night into Tuesday. At the moment, the heaviest rain of 2-4 inches appears to be focused just west and southwest of the region. It will be a close call so we need to monitor this pattern closely for early next week.

The FBI's search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate has been unsealed. Here are all the documents and the details.

It’s “a big f****ing deal.”

EDWARDSVILLE - Liberty Apple Orchard, a U-pick orchard located just east of Edwardsville, will celebrate its tenth season by opening on August 27, 2022. The orchard features 18 varieties of apples from August through November, a replica of a one-room schoolhouse, and a new farm market building filled with products from the orchard and treats from local businesses. The orchard will be hosting a Golden Apple Harvest Festival and 5k Run on September 24 to benefit childhood cancer research through the American Cancer Society. Liberty Apple Orchard is conveniently located near Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Troy, Highland, Granite City, and St. Louis, yet still situated in a rural setting. Guest may pick-their-own apples on Saturday from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sunday from 12:00 - 4:30 pm, and after school Tuesday – Friday from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. On Labor Day the orchard will be open from 10:00 – 3:00 pm. A traditional family orchard, Liberty Apple Orchard is owned an

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CHICAGO — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) today issued five additional Conditional Adult Use Dispensing Organization Licenses to applicants selected in lotteries held in the summer of 2021. These awardees join the 177 conditional licenses issued by the Administration in July, bringing the total number of issued licenses to 182 (of 185 available licenses). All businesses qualify as Social Equity Applicants under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. The list of today’s awardees and the next steps for the conditional license period are available on the IDFPR’s Adult Use Cannabis webpage . Of the businesses selected through the lottery, 41% are majority Black-owned, 7% are majority White-owned, and 4% are majority Latino-owned, while 38% of awardees did not disclose the race of their owners. To date, Illinois has made and executed the greatest commitment of adult use cannabis tax revenue to community

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SPRINGFIELD — Governor JB Pritzker joined the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) today to announce a $34.6 billion program to improve roads, bridges, transit, rail, airports, and ports over the next six years. This funding represents a robust commitment to invest in people and communities backed by the historic Rebuild Illinois capital program. “Since I signed our historic, bipartisan infrastructure program into law, Rebuild Illinois has undertaken a massive transformation of our state’s transportation systems,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “And today, I am proud to announce IDOT’s new Multi-Year Program for the next six years — with $20 billion going towards transportation investments including 2,500 miles of roads and nearly 10 million square feet of bridge deck and $10 billion going towards our state’s rail and transit systems, airports, and ports. At its very core, Rebuild Illinois and this MYP are an investment in our future

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ST. LOUIS - Centerstone, a nonprofit health system specializing in mental health and substance use disorder treatments, was recently awarded a $106,000 grant from the Community Behavioral Healthcare Association (CBHA) of Illinois to expand supervised and skillful care access for children. The grant, over the course of two years, will fund clinical supervision and a stipend for eight, second year master’s degree level interns. “This grant will help improve our staff’s ability to address the needs and challenges that are experienced by youth. With a youth-specific training focus, providers will have access to tools and resources that will ultimately help address the service entry bottleneck, support the development of clinicians new to the field, and enhance the training of up-and-coming clinical professionals,” said Jenna Farmer-Brackett, Centerstone clinical manager. “Centerstone has long been a center for learning and development of behavioral health

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Big Bend Road over Interstate 44 will reopen Monday, the Missouri Department of Transportation said.

Rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, and actor, Machine Gun Kelly landed his Mainstream Sellout tour in St. Louis on Wednesday, August 10.

The list refers to one set of documents as “Various classified/TS/CSI documents,” meaning top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information. It states that FBI agents acquired four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. 

The internship program is part of a strategy designed to help the firm build a deeper pool of recruits trained to meet the job's unique skills requirements. "It's like building your bench."

BETHALTO - “It’s exciting times,” Todd Hannaford said, CM’s athletic director. The fall sports season usually brings a lot of excitement around the Riverbend area, but that excitement is ramped up to 11 for the Bethalto community. Work has been going on at their football stadium this summer to make it look almost unrecognizable from a season ago. Upgrades include the addition of new storage under the grandstands, a brand new track, a completely re-done turf field, new fencing, and tons of new concrete to transform the area into something special. CM football fans were a little worried that all the work may not be done in time for the home opener on August 26th against Marquette, but workers were adamant that they are right on schedule. Some estimated that it could all be done by the end of next week. That's not saying there isn't still work to be done. It appeared as if a lot of concrete still had to be poured, the track needs to be lined, the turf

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Snō will open at 3611 Juanita St. in a 4,000-square-foot-space that was previously occupied by VP Square, which closed in late 2021. The building is owned by Cafe Mochi Owner Victor Pham, who also owned VP Square. The building has two floors and occupancy of about 120 guests.