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Residents living in some majority Black neighborhoods in St. Louis have a 18-year lower life expectancy than residents of majority white neighborhoods less than 10 miles away, a regional health study found. For over a century, Black St. Louis residents have experienced housing policies and development strategies that have trapped generations in segregated and disinvested neighborhoods, […]

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One of the largest school districts in the area will start to require masks starting Monday.

GRANITE CITY – Granite City High School Principal Daren DePew announced that 514 students from GCHS earned Honor Roll accolades for the second semester of the 2021-22 school year. Students who obtained a grade point average of 5.0 or higher during the second semester earned High Honor Roll accolades, while students who achieved a 4.2 GPA or higher earned Honor Roll status. To view the complete list of honorees, click on the Honor Roll link for each graduation year: CLASS OF 2022 - High Honor Roll - Honor Roll CLASS OF 2023 - High Honor Roll - Honor Roll CLASS OF 2024 - High Honor Roll - Honor Roll CLASS OF 2025 - High Honor Roll - Honor Roll For more information about Granite City School District #9, visit www.gcsd9.net .

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PONTOON BEACH - In an effort to keep the Madison County Transit (MCT) Trails clean, welcoming, and appropriate for all ages, MCT is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any individuals or groups vandalizing or dumping on the MCT Trails. Although MCT has offered this reward for several years, a recent increase in vandalism and graffiti on the MCT Trails has prompted this reminder. In many cases, the graffiti that is appearing on the trails and in the tunnels is inappropriate, lewd, and not in line with MCT’s mission to provide Madison County residents and visitors with a safe, scenic, and family-friendly venue for outdoor recreation or transportation. Most of the graffiti is being found on the MCT Trails in the Edwardsville-Glen Carbon area. In addition to offering the reward, MCT is partnering with local law enforcement from various municipalities to track these incidents, investigate, and hopefully soon apprehend the offender. “W

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It’s no secret that China wants to erase from history the student protests at Tiananmen Square, and the resulting massacre by the government, but it keeps proving more and more difficult in the internet age. Even with China’s infamous Great Firewall. The latest example is really quite striking. Li Jiaqi is an astoundingly popular social […]

The Dubb Nubb band members can tell you many things, but one is for sure: There is no music scene like St. Louis’. A local folk band, Dubb Nubb has been playing for over a decade in the area, with brief pauses to pursue other dreams. Started by twin sisters Delia (who has written for the RFT) and Hannah Rainey as teenagers, the band now includes the sisters plus Todd Anderson on bass and John Hamms on drums.

We return you now to our regular Friday programming featuring fully American cats. In today's photo, Charlie is showing off his hunting skills by leaping onto a painted ping pong ball. He mainly likes it because it rolls around nicely and makes a great sound when it bounces off walls. He never quite brings it ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 10 June 2022"

Today on TAP: The January 6th hearings should move us closer to a prosecution of Trump.

The deluxe 50th anniversary reissue of Elton John's fourth studio album, Madman Across the Water, released in late 1971, hit stores Friday. The collection is available now as a super…

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The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was called in Friday to help solve a homicide that occurred late Thursday outside the Madison Meat Market in Madison.

A woman tells police that her 75-year-old neighbor broke into her home and tried to smother her with a pillow while she slept.

Juneteenth celebrations are starting up this weekend and will continue on through the month. Here is everything you need to know about the holiday and how to celebrate. Background Juneteenth started when Gordon Granger, a Union general, told the enslaved African-Americans of Galveston, Texas, that they were free.

In suspending medical marijuana facilities, the state noted security camera outages, “pervasive irregularities” in recordkeeping and other issues.

Two men are charged with robbing postal workers in St. Louis County.

"I had a lot of childhood trauma, two divorces, had cancer."

Speaker Michael Madigan quietly greenlighted efforts to kill his own daughter’s legislation as he pressed ComEd to give jobs to two political allies.

A gunman shot two men, one fatally, in the parking lot of a Metro East supermarket Thursday evening.