JERSEYVILLE - The Jerseyville location of Scooter’s Coffee at 600 S. State St. has officially opened for business. Scott Gaffner, who co-owns this location with his wife Jamie, said the reception from the community has been wonderful so far. The location opened at 11 a.m. on Monday - a delayed start due to final inspections - but the location’s full hours are 5:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. from Monday-Friday and 6 a.m.-8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. “Everything so far has been well-received,” Gaffner said. “We’re just ecstatic the way Jersey, Greene, Calhoun, Madison County - we have so many people from so many different areas that have come and just been so excited to see us here, and that’s made us even more excited to be here, back to our home area.” Gaffner and his wife lived in Jerseyville from 1990-1995 while Gaffner worked for the Illinois State Police, after which they moved to Greeneville. He said he’s since retired from
The governor says Darren Bailey’s statement was “antisemitic and disqualifying.” Bailey says he wasn’t trying to diminish the atrocities of the Holocaust.
It’s an election year, and like clockwork, legislators around the country want to show they care about protecting kids online. This pre-election frenzy leads performative bills that won’t actually help any kids. Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408, “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” (For more on how the California legislature […]
ST. LOUIS - A man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting Monday of a teen inside the lobby of a greyhound station. Montrel Alexander, 21, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. The shooting that killed a 17 or 18-year-old boy happened at 430 South 15th Street at about [...]
ST. LOUIS - Police caught a convicted felon with a gun when they responded to a domestic violence incident in the Shaw neighborhood. Now that man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. In May, De’Aliz’e Jones, 25, pleaded guilty to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On [...]
A variety of famous veteran acts populate the top of Pollstar's new lists of the top touring artists by total box-office grosses and total ticket sales, based on information the…
Boeing has built up an inventory of 120 undelivered 787 jets. With the green light, the company can expect to see its cash flow greatly improve as it hands them off.
ST. LOUIS - The person killed Friday night on I-55 has been identified. Deolandis Dabney, 27, was shot at about 12:30 p.m. on I-55 at South Broadway. Officers found him inside a four-door silver car suffering from gunshot wounds to his head and torso. The back passenger window was shot out, though it remains unclear [...]
A Clayton-based wholesale distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products is expanding its reach in the industrial automation and control sector with two acquisitions.
This is the Long Beach skyline seen through the Seal Beach pier. The roundish building a little left of the midpoint is the Long Beach Arena. You can see the Queen Mary between the farthest left pilings. A cruise ship is docked at the far left.