ALTON - Alton Pride will host their fifth annual festival this weekend to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and allies. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, the community is invited to Belle Street in Alton for a day of vendors, food trucks, live music, drag performances, karaoke and more. Juliet Steele, the president-elect of Alton Pride, noted that the event promises to be a fun day of acceptance while supporting local LGBTQ+ community members. “We need a judgment-free
TROY, IL. – This September, Tri-Township Library is joining the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month. To make this year extra special, the library has partnered with local businesses to launch their " Show Your Card and Save " campaign, offering exclusive discounts to library cardholders all month long. Throughout September, community members who show their Tri-Township Library card at participating local businesses will
Sheriff Dave Marshak said, when Congress ended taxes on silencers and some guns, the federal government lost its right to require registration of those weapons.
A recent financial study suggests that achieving financial security in Missouri now requires approximately $80,000 annually for a single adult and nearly $200,000 for a family of four due to rising costs.
The question of which congressional district map Missouri will use in November returned to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday after a federal appeals court refused to block an order requiring use of the Republican-drawn 2025 map. People Not Politicians, the political action committee that forced a referendum on the map, filed an […]
Election Day is only 56 days away, and the numbers are clear: Darren Bailey's campaign for Illinois governor hasn't gotten the same push it did in 2022, and the campaign is changing strategies by going out of state for support. Our Quad Cities News Illinois Capitol Bureau chief Alex Whitney tracks campaign 2026 for Your [...]
HARDIN — A Calhoun County grand jury on Aug. 17, 2026, indicted Richard J. Large, 34, of Kampsville, on a charge of predatory criminal sexual assault involving a victim under 13 years old after a sheriff’s office investigation into a child sexual assault complaint in Kampsville, authorities said. The charge is a Class X felony, according to a Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office press release. The investigation began April 21, 2026, when the sheriff’s office received a complaint
A federal judge sentenced a Missouri man Tuesday for fraudulently stealing almost $285,000 in a pandemic rental assistance program over the course of three years.
Dig up the final trailer for Tom Cruise's new film, Digger.Warner Bros. Pictures released a new official trailer for the upcoming film on Wednesday. It finds Cruise completely transformed into…
The court ordered Hoskins to address why he instructed local election authorities to use the 2025 map and how that is not a violation of the court's ruling.
Here we go again: another case where it’s easy to cheer a court ruling against Elon Musk, and unfortunately easy to miss the much more important underlying point — which the judge clearly did. In July, we wrote about how even as awful as Elon Musk is, and as awful as it was that (with […]
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WASHINGTON — Temporary protected status for 170,000 Salvadorans is set to expire at midnight Wednesday, but the Department of Homeland Security said protections will remain in place until the Trump administration makes a decision to extend or terminate El Salvador’s designation, in place since 2001. “An announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at […]
SPRINGFIELD – Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has eliminated an additional fee for notaries who provide electronic notarization services, making it easier and more affordable for Illinoisans to have documents notarized. As a result, Illinois notaries public can become commissioned electronic notaries without paying the additional $25 commission fee. The waiver, which took effect July 27, is already helping expand access to electronic notarization. As of Sept. 9, 137 applications for
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