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Granite City Police Arrest Child Solicitation Suspect From East St. Louis

1 day 11 hours ago
GRANITE CITY – A sex offender from East St. Louis faces a felony in Madison County after allegedly soliciting a minor near a school. Rashad V. Lumpford, 32, of the 400 block of Wimmer Place in East St. Louis, faces a Class 3 felony count of indecent solicitation of a child. The charge was filed Aug. 5, 2026 in Madison County court and stems from an alleged incident two days prior on Aug. 3, 2026. Lumpford is accused of knowingly soliciting a 13-year-old child to perform a sex act with th

Two Charged As Adults In Shooting Death Of Ride-Share Driver, Edwardsville High Grad Shannon O'Brien

1 day 12 hours ago
FERGUSON, MO. — Two 17-year-old suspects are facing adult criminal charges in connection with the Jan. 30, 2026, shooting death of ride-share driver Shannon O’Brien, an Edwardsville High School graduate, in Ferguson, Mo. after investigators said rival groups met for a planned shootout in the 1700 block of Windward Court. The St. Louis County Family Court certified Lamarkus Van, 17, of the 2500 block of Haber Drive in St. Louis, as an adult Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. The St. Louis County

Venice Man Sentenced to 154 Months in Prison for Carjacking, Shooting in St. Louis

1 day 12 hours ago
VENICE - A Venice, Illinois, man was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in St. Louis to 154 months in prison for the 2024 armed robbery and carjacking of one man and for shooting at another man about an hour later. Harry Moore, 21, pleaded guilty in April in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to one felony count of carjacking and one felony count of possession and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime. On Sept. 4, 2024, Moore was driving a Cadillac that had been stolen in

The Censorship Industrial Complex Didn’t Exist Until The People Who Invented It Took It Over

1 day 13 hours ago
For many, many years now we’ve been calling out how the entire narrative around the “censorship industrial complex” was absolute bullshit, made up by a group of either deliberate misinformation peddlers or confused “contrarian” journalists too stupid to understand how basic things work. And I say that as someone who has long been critical of […]
Mike Masnick

New drug-resistant fungal disease increases among vulnerable patients

1 day 13 hours ago
Twenty-eight states this year have reported over 3,500 cases of patients sick with the drug-resistant yeast candida auris, which can cause severe illness and is often reported in healthcare facilities. As of Aug. 1, 3,544 clinical cases of candida auris, or C. auris, have been reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
Nada Hassanein