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Police say a man walked into traffic on Saturday morning and pointed a weapon at officers in a marked vehicle.

ALTON - Alton Police Department is investigating a pedestrian who died after being struck by a train at about 6:32 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, on the railroad tracks in the area of 2800 block of Circle Drive near Homer Adams Parkway in Alton. The Alton Police Department and Alton Fire Department responded to the area after a call of a pedestrian who had been struck. "Preliminary investigation revealed that an Amtrak train collided with a pedestrian who was on the train tracks, in the area of the 2800 block of Circle Drive," the chief said. "This area is just southeast of where officers were initially dispatched. There is no train crossing at this location. "Unfortunately, the pedestrian has died and this investigation is still ongoing."

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A congressional oversight subcommittee is investigating the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of a high-risk heart pump, citing safety issues detailed by ProPublica.

The HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device, created to treat patients with severe heart failure, stopped meeting key federal standards as early as 2014. But the FDA took no decisive action even as those problems persisted, and thousands of Americans continued to be implanted with the pump.

By the end of 2020, the FDA had received more than 3,000 reports of deaths related to the HeartWare device, according to a ProPublica data analysis. A father of four died as his children tried to resuscitate him when his device suddenly stopped. A teenager died after vomiting blood in the middle of the night, while his mother struggled to restart a faulty pump.

“I am concerned by FDA’s slow action, over multiple administrations, to protect patients from this product despite early warning signs,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., in a scathing letter sent Tuesday to the agency’s commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf.

Krishnamoorthi, the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, requested information on how the FDA made regulatory decisions related to the HeartWare device and why it didn’t take further action.

The FDA did not provide comment to ProPublica on the subcommittee’s investigation and said it would respond directly to Krishnamoorthi. It also reiterated its response to ProPublica’s findings and said the agency had been closely overseeing the HeartWare device since 2012, with patient safety as its “highest priority.”

Medtronic, the company that acquired HeartWare in 2016, took the device off the market in June 2021. The company said that new data showed a competing heart pump had better outcomes. In response to the ProPublica investigation two months later, the company said it took the FDA’s inspections seriously and had worked closely with the agency to address issues with the device.

Medtronic declined to comment on the subcommittee’s investigation.

Krishnamoorthi asked in the letter if any steps were being taken to address how patients, doctors and other federal agencies are notified of problems that the FDA finds with medical devices.

Many patients told ProPublica they were never informed of issues with the HeartWare pump before or after their implants. Some people who still have the device said they weren’t told when it was taken off the market. Medtronic said in December it had confirmed 90% of U.S. patients had received notification of the HeartWare discontinuation, but that it was still working to reach the other 10%.

About 2,000 patients still had HeartWare pumps as of last year. The FDA and Medtronic recommended against removing those devices barring medical necessity because the surgery to do so carries a high risk.

In his letter, Krishnamoorthi gave the FDA a deadline of April 5 to respond.

Since childhood you've likely been watching Brook Dubman's wacky Carol House Furniture commercials, in which he wears blindfolds, treats customers like they're in their own living rooms, or does silly Law & Order-style interrogations. His dad, who founded the company, started casting him in the commercials when Brook was nineteen, and his younger sister Amy soon joined as well.

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. - Fragrance thefts across multiple jurisdictions including Chesterfield, Missouri have amassed over $50,000. The Chesterfield Police Department is attempting to identify suspects connected to these incidents. It is unknown at this time how many stores have had items stolen from them. The timeline of these thefts is also unknown at this time. FOX [...]

Police had wanted him charged with robbery and other crimes, but St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner said the evidence doesn't support those charges.

EUREKA, Mo. - Six Flags will open the season on April 2 with some new attractions. Some of those new attractions include Six Flags' new Low Sensory Space to celebrate Autism Awareness Month this April, Spring Blooms flower displays from April 15 to May 2, more relaxation stations, Hurricane Harbor's new Adventure Cove area, and [...]

Koplar Properties, Albion Residential, and Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture presented their proposal for a $135M, 30-story, 293-unit luxury apartment building at Lindell and Kingshighway to the community last night at the Chase. They launched a website for the proposal – www.4974lindell.com Sam Koplar said the family had waited so long to develop the site not due […]

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On March 30, Panera will begin selling two versions of its Chef's Chicken Sandwich with a quarter-pound of all-white-meat chicken breast filet.

WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday sharpened their criticisms of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, probing her work as a public defender on behalf …

Average gas prices in St. Louis saw a dip this week but remained high as the national average saw its first price drop in 12 weeks, according to a recent survey from GasBuddy. Prices were averaging $3.98 per gallon in St. Louis as of Sunday, a drop of 7.5 cents from last week. The average was still 69.6 cents higher than a month ago and $1.18 higher than a year ago. The national average as of Monday was $4.23. The drop comes after weeks of an unprecedented rise in gas prices. In early March, average…