ALTON - Marquette Catholic boys tennis notched another big triumph over Hillsboro 9-0 on Monday, April 13, 2026, at Gordon Moore Park. Hubert Allen’s No. 1 singles win over Hillsboro’s Mark Mattson, 6-3, 6-4, was rated as one of the biggest Explorers' victories of the day. The Explorers squad has been sensational throughout the 2026 season to date. With the win on Monday, Marquette moves to a flawless 5-0 record. Nathan Joehl is the head coach for Marquette boys tennis for 2026
It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years ago, these legislators were seeking to end the FBI (and other IC components’) access to Americans’ communications via “backdoor” searches of the NSA’s supposedly “foreign facing” collections. It wasn’t that the Republicans cared that Joe […]
Joe Perry sounds hopeful that Aerosmith isn't over for good.Fans have been wondering about the future of the band ever since they canceled their Peace Out farewell tour in 2024 due to frontman…
ELSAH - Principia College will host their annual Dance Production with the theme “Seasons of Life” this weekend. At 8 p.m. on April 16, 17 and 18, 2026, and 2 p.m. on April 18, 2026, community members can come to the Duvall Theatre in the McVay Center for the Performing Arts on Principia’s campus. The show features students from over 12 majors as well as several alumni. To Erin Lane, chair of Principia’s dance program, this collaboration and connection demonstrates
WASHINGTON — Tucked into President Donald Trump’s new budget request is a plan that could dramatically change — and, critics say, slash — how much money and help states provide to people needing jobs and training. Trump’s latest budget proposes a federal “Make America Skilled Again’’ grant that would combine a dozen current programs and provide […]
Former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley has shared his reaction to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with the metal icons."It's crazy, really!" Bayley tells Metal…
JERSEY - Advanced STEM students from Jersey Community High School tested their engineering skills against other area high school teams at the Lewis and Clark Community College Trebuchet Competition, where one Jersey team placed second and another finished sixth. The Jersey Navy team of Brayden Cox, Jack Deist, Caden Klunk and Brady Maxeiener won second place, and the Jersey White team of Aaron Hughes, Bryce Hutchens, Shane Lamer and Lucas Long earned sixth, according to Jersey Communit
Homicide Detectives are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and three others injured on April 14, 2026 in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.
ALTON - The Alton Police Department will host its 11th annual “Ballin’ With a Cop” youth basketball event from noon to 2 p.m. on May 9, 2026, at the YWCA gym in Alton, partnering once again with A Precious Organization and the YWCA of Southwestern Illinois to bring local kids together with officers for food and a scrimmage game. The event is scheduled for the YWCA Gym at 304 E. Third St. It will include pizza, drinks, and cookies, along with a basketball scrimmage
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are once again looking toward the complex budget reconciliation process as a way to achieve some of their policy goals without Democratic votes. GOP leaders were able to use the special pathway last year to approve the “big, beautiful” law that extended tax cuts, overhauled and cut Medicaid, provided hundreds of […]
Robots are being spotted at City Museum just in time for the VEX Robotics World Championship being held April 21-30 at the America's Center convention complex in St. Louis. These […]
Majestic marble sculptures, vivid plaster frescoes, bronze artifacts and glass vessels chronicle life at the height of the Roman Empire in this ticketed exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum. […]
Combining intergenerational history, archival research and theories of art and film, Andrea Carlson creates incisive works of resistance and sovereignty that disempower colonial storytelling and practices of erasure. A descendant […]
Now open at the World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries, Charles Houska: Master of Play is a retrospective of the St. Louis artist’s work over his impressive 25-plus-year career, […]
For more than 150 years, St. Louisans have entrusted the Missouri Historical Society with countless objects: photographs, diaries, home movies, clothing, books – items that future generations can turn in […]
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