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The last case that could overturn Missouri’s newly gerrymandered congressional map without a statewide vote went before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, with attorneys for the NAACP arguing lawmakers should never have been called together in the first place.

EDWARDSVILLE - During their regular meeting on May 26, 2026, the Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 Board of Education discussed the possibility of creating a Curriculum Advisory Committee. The committee would support the curriculum reviews completed by teachers and administrators. Board President Bob Paty explained the purpose behind creating a new committee. “The Curriculum Advisory Committee exists to inform, educate, and ensure that all curriculum decisions brought

A St. Louis man was found shot to death inside his car Tuesday night in Berkeley after what witnesses described as a rolling shooting incident on Airport Road.

GRANITE CITY — Downtown Granite City is preparing to welcome hundreds of visitors on Saturday, June 6, 2026, as communities along Illinois’ historic Route 66 come together for a regional celebration centered on tourism, local business support, history, and community involvement. The event, culminating in a downtown Granite City celebration in Civic Park and extending to the Neon Sign Park area, is expected to bring visitors from across Illinois and surrounding states into local restaurants

ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Detectives with the Major Case Squad are investigating after a man was found dead Tuesday night in Berkeley.

Torriono Baker is being held on a $600,000, cash-only bond. She's charged with first-degree murder and five other counts.

As a vegetarian, Paul McCartney doesn't eat chicken, but that isn't stopping him from appearing on the popular YouTube series Chicken Shop Date on Friday.The show features host Amelia Dimoldenberg…

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A major redevelopment proposal in Ladue calls for the city's first-ever apartments, along with dozens of villas, custom homes and neighborhood retail space, at the Rock Hill Quarries landfill site.

Homicide detectives arrested a second person for a shooting at a fast-food drive-thru window in April that left one woman dead and another person injured.

“They’re playing stupid,” scoffed Alderman Rasheen Aldridge, of downtown.

Like most of the U.S., Western Massachusetts towns and cities have spent decades dealing with expensive, spotty, and slow broadband from private telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon. As a result, a lot of these towns and cities have explored building their own community owned fiber networks. Community broadband has been increasingly popular since COVID, […]

SHIPMAN - A building in Shipman is getting a refreshed look with a new mural. Logoline, located at 129 Keating Street in Shipman, is a woman-owned business that offers in-house printing and merchandising services. Owner Tye Christopher shared that the business recently collaborated with Kelly Christenson with Hype of Type to paint a mural on their building, with the hopes of sharing their investment in the community. “I just thought that bringing some color to that side of the building

ALTON – Alton officials are holding off on creating a new dedicated fund for downtown festivals and events. At the May 26, 2026 Committee of the Whole meeting , Alderwoman Martha Pfister moved to postpone a resolution to establish a Festival and Event Fund using Food and Beverage Tax revenue. The resolution’s stated purpose is “to support events in the Downtown District of Alton.” “Events held within the downtown area generate increased activity for local restaurants,

A violent carjacking in the Central West End has a St. Louis man facing serious charges and behind bars without bond.

Hazelwood Police say a minor had just stepped off a school bus when a white vehicle sped past, then circled back. Several people jumped out, confronted the victim at gunpoint and beat him with a firearm before taking a cellphone, hoodie, shoes and glasses.

GODFREY - Community members and business owners from across the region gathered at the RiverBend Growth Association Chamber Choice Awards. On Wednesday, May 27, 2026, the RiverBend Growth Association (RBGA) hosted their fifth annual awards luncheon, featuring music by the Alton Youth Symphony Chamber Strings, a meal catered by Nicky G’s, and the recognition of several award and scholarship winners. The event, held at The Commons at Lewis and Clark Community College, invited community

EDWARDSVILLE — Albert Lee Zigler was ordered to be held in the Madison County Jail pending trial after appearing Wednesday before Judge Hackett for a detention hearing in the 1993 murder of Randy Gail Sperino of Granite City. Hackett ruled that Zigler should remain jailed until trial in the case, which prosecutors said stems from Sperino’s killing on Nov. 9, 1993. During the hearing, the Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office argued that Zigler drove by Sperino as

Andrew Watt produced The Rolling Stones' well-received 2023 album Hackney Diamonds and the band's upcoming release, Foreign Tongues. But Watt says he prefers latter, out July 10, because the Stones "never play…

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New York, May 27, 2026 — A federal judge twice rejected search warrant applications for the YouTube accounts of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, according to court records unsealed yesterday. Federal prosecutors sought the search warrants in connection with the spurious criminal cases they’re pursuing against Lemon and Fort for covering a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. A third journalist, photographer Junn Bollmann, is also facing baseless charges.

Magistrate Judge John Docherty rejected the initial warrants — which sought information about Lemon and Fort’s use of their YouTube channels as well as information about the people who may have watched them — because they lacked probable cause, a basic legal requirement for all search warrants.

Docherty then refused to sign the resubmitted search warrants because they failed to comply with the requirements of the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, a federal law that prohibits most search warrants targeting journalists and others who disseminate information to the public. The government later withdrew the search warrants, and Docherty ordered them unsealed.

The following statement can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Senior Advocacy Adviser Caitlin Vogus:

“These failed search warrants are what happens when incompetent prosecutors pursue political vendettas instead of justice. Having or watching a YouTube channel aren’t crimes, and neither is reporting on a protest. Before the Department of Justice embarrasses itself even more, it should immediately drop the prosecutions of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Junn Bollmann.

“Once again, the DOJ also conveniently left out of its applications any mention of the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 and later wrongly insisted that prosecutors don’t need to tell judges when the warrants the government seeks may violate federal law. At this point, every judge should assume the DOJ will try to sneak illegal search warrants past the court. Congress should pass the Privacy Protection Updates Act before this abuse gets even worse.

“Secrecy around search warrants can be dangerous. These applications only became public because the government failed so badly, and Judge John Docherty properly recognized the public’s right to see them. Given the DOJ’s repeated attacks on First Amendment rights and flagrant abuse of the legal system, journalists and all Americans should be asking what’s still buried in sealed search warrant applications around the country.”

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