EDWARDSVILLE — The Edwardsville High School Color Guard brought home the school’s first Winter Guard International regional championship Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026, winning at the WGI Kansas City Regional after advancing from prelims to finals in a field of more than 20 teams from eight states. Edwardsville competed with both A and AA teams at the WGI Regional+ event. In the preliminary round, the EHS A group earned first place in its division and advanced to finals, where it won its
On This Day, Feb. 10, 1978...Van Halen released their self-titled debut album, which peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.The album featured such future classics as “Runnin’ with…
Women with breast cancer living in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility were less likely to die from the disease — but not everyone benefited equally, according to a recent study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Howard University, the University of Alabama, Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan, and others looked at […]
On display at the ever-popular orchid show, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s vast orchid collection includes more than 6,000 individual plants representing almost 700 unique species, and approximately one in 10 […]
Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, worship, and even survival. The “I can’t stop thinking about you” style we expect now is a relatively new idea. Once you see that, old love poems stop feeling like museum pieces and start looking like early versions of the messages people still send every day. Why love poems keep changing Love is a constant, but the way
The story of February 10 begins in the early Middle Ages. In 1258, the Mongols captured Baghdad, bringing the Abbasid Caliphate’s political center to an end. Baghdad had been a major hub of learning, commerce, and administration for centuries. Its fall marked a turning point in the region’s political landscape, and it shifted the flow of power and scholarship across the Islamic world. The event also showed how quickly military innovations and mobility—central strengths of the
EDWARDSVILLE – The next stretch of a shared use path running through downtown Edwardsville is one step closer to construction. At their Feb. 3, 2026 meeting, Edwardsville City Council members unanimously approved a $150,237 engineering services agreement with Oates Associates, Inc. for the latest phase of the Route 66 Shared Use Path. Under the agreement, Oates Associates, Inc. are set to perform construction engineering services for the latest section of the Route 66 Trail shared us
O’FALLON – The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced lane closures on West Highway 50 at Interstate 64 beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 9, weather permitting. Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction to allow for bridge construction. The lane closures are expected to remain in place through early summer 2026. Motorists should expect delays and are encouraged to use alternate routes during this closure. Drivers are urged to reduce speed, be alert
COLLINSVILLE – A Collinsville man accused of sharing a victim’s private photo without their consent faces a felony charge in Madison County. David B. Wheeler, 45, of the 2000 block of Raintree Trail in Collinsville, was charged on Feb. 6, 2026 with one count of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, a Class 4 felony. Wheeler is accused of intentionally disseminating a sexually explicit image of another person who is reportedly identifiable from the image without
ST. LOUIS - Mary Jean Price Walls was the first documented Black student to apply to Missouri State University in 1950. The institution was known as Southwest Missouri State College at the time of her application. Walls was denied admission to the college and was never officially notified of the decision. Her attempt to enroll [...]
Twenty states have enacted laws prohibiting the use of unique merchant category codes to distinguish firearm purchases, and Missouri could be the 21st. State Sen. Jill Carter, a Republican from Granby, presented legislation to a Senate committee Monday that would create the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.” The bill prohibits government entities from keeping a […]
This morning starts clear and chilly with temperatures near 28 degrees. The sun shines brightly through the day with a high reaching 59 degrees. Winds pick up in the afternoon from the west-northwest at about 9 mph, gusting up to 26 mph. Evening brings partly cloudy skies and temperatures dipping to the low 40s with a light northwest breeze slowing to around 8 mph. Overnight will be partly cloudy and cooler, with lows around 38 degrees. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny and cooler, with a high near
Gibbons' comments come in response to pressure from residents and preservationists to save the Marquitz-Garesche house, which dates back to the founding of Kirkwood, in the 1850s.
FCC boss Brendan Carr is back with yet another fake “investigation” of media outlets he deems insufficiently deferential to radical (and increasingly unpopular) right wing ideology. This time it involves Carr launching a phony non-investigation of ABC’s The View. The crime? They apparently didn’t kiss MAGA Republican ass with enough zeal: “The Federal Communications Commission […]
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