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EDWARDSVILLE - As the school year starts, kindergarteners at Leclaire Elementary School in Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 are learning basic skills to be successful students. Interim Principal Cari Wencewicz is always impressed by the teachers and K–2 students at Leclaire, and this year has driven home the work that teachers do to ensure their students have a good year. Especially as the kindergartners learn how to interact in a school setting, Wencewicz is thankful

The official trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth has arrived.Netflix released the new trailer for the upcoming film from director David Fincher. The movie stars Brad Pitt back…

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Dylan Hembrough majors in pharmacy at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. In the four years since he started taking classes there, he has learned much more than chemistry and medicative therapy.

Satire is dead. But it’s been dead since the first Trump administration, back when people were “owning the libs” with a combination of horse dewormers and willfully contracting COVID. Bleach consumption was discussed. It was a whole thing. Not enough of those people died, apparently. We somehow got a second season of Trump and at […]

For Mark Segobiano, the hardest part of his prostate cancer journey came before treatment ever began. It was hearing the word “cancer” again. Mark had already battled acute promyelocytic leukemia years earlier, so when blood work and prostate testing revealed an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, the news brought back familiar fears. He and his wife, Cindy, had learned firsthand how quickly a health concern could become something much more serious. The Bloomington,

A Ste. Genevieve man pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony charge accusing him of making threats against the Archdiocese of St. Louis in TikTok videos.

COLLINSVILLE – As harvest season gets underway across Illinois and Missouri, Ameren is encouraging farmers and agricultural workers to make safety a top priority when working around overhead power lines and operating large farm equipment. National Farm Safety and Health Week, observed Sept. 21-25, serves as an important reminder that modern farming technologies can improve efficiency, but vigilance remains essential when working near electrical infrastructure. Large combines, tractors,

WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for the ongoing war in Iran that has driven fuel prices to staggering levels in the United States and across the globe. Already House Republicans locked in tight races as […]

ALTON - Alton High School students have the opportunity to engage with local professionals and learn more about their career paths. The high school’s Guest Speaker Series invites people to come in and speak with juniors and seniors about their post-high school careers. The hope, explained Director of Student Services Angela Kuchnicki, is to help students think about their own paths and how they can achieve their goals. “It’s been very eye-opening for our students to hear

EDWARDSVILLE/GLEN CARBON - The Daughters of Isabella O’Reilly Circle No. 218 in Edwardsville presented a $2,000 scholarship check on Sept. 9, 2026, to Father McGivney Catholic High School to support Catholic young women who show academic promise, parish involvement and a commitment to service. The scholarships were awarded to Veronica Noronha and Ella Roundcount for the 2026/2027 academic year. The organization described Noronha and Roundcount as examples of faith, service and leadership.

Hanaway's office previously said a rule similar to newly proposed one by the Trump administration would not resolve its request for a do-over of the 2020 Census.

GRANITE CITY — Granite City Police Department Lt. Nick Roberts was among 265 law enforcement officers who graduated Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va., after completing advanced training designed for experienced law enforcement professionals. The 299th session of the National Academy included men and women from 44 states and the District of Columbia, along with 29 international law enforcement members from 28 countries, five military organizations and

A nearly three-year restoration transforms a long-vacant University Street large single-family home into affordable housing

Graduate Workers of St. Louis University-UAW's ratification vote closed Friday with a 72% voter turnout, said Zach Davis, a member of the union's bargaining committee.

The Illinois State Police issued safety tips for both drivers and farmers to prevent crashes involving agricultural equipment during the harvest season.

A caregiver is accused of financially exploiting an MS patient at a Town and Country nursing home by stealing tens of thousands of dollars via improper Cash App transactions.

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New York, Sept. 21, 2026 — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced at a news conference that a coalition of state attorneys general has reached a settlement of its case opposing the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, which would put both CNN and CBS News under the control of the David Ellison-led Paramount Skydance.

The agreement requires the creation of an “independent” editorial board, to be appointed by and answering to Paramount’s board, to oversee CNN and CBS News and, according to Bonta, to “ensure independent, objective, fact-based reporting.”

The following can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern:

“A Paramount-appointed editorial independence board for CNN and CBS is worthless. The fish rots from the head, and this particular fish is headed by a compromised oligarch with a history of throwing journalists under the bus to advance his business interests.

“The editorial board creates the same First Amendment problems it’s supposed to solve — the government meddling in the news. It’s unclear how the attorneys general or courts can constitutionally hold Paramount accountable for the board’s actions or inaction without themselves interfering in content. The attorneys general might be fine with censorship when they’re the ones doing it, but what happens when successors with opposing political views inherit enforcement powers?

“And with respect to CBS, the editorial board makes even less sense. Ellison already traded away CBS’ editorial independence in his negotiations with Federal Communications Commission Chair and Trump loyalist Brendan Carr, hiring a career partisan as a “bias ombudsman” and committing in regulatory submissions to truthful and unbiased reporting — practically the same words Bonta uttered at his shameful press conference. To Carr, of course, that means reporting that is uncritical of the administration.

“Carr has said that he’d attempt to punish failure to abide by those terms, as he interprets them, as false statements to a federal agency. Bonta says his agreement is enforceable in court. So who will decide whether the news is fair, true, and unbiased? Will it be Carr, the bias ombudsman, the attorneys general, or the editorial board?

“Ultimately, the answer is Ellison, and by extension his buddy Donald Trump.”

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Mayor Gary Johnson urged "fostering cohesive communication, rather than adversarial interactions" between the city and police.