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ALTON/ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Dead carp have been reported recently near the Melvin Price Lock and Dam area in Alton, along the Great River Road near the city and in the Mississippi River in Pike, Lincoln and St. Charles counties, where state wildlife officials said warm temperatures and low oxygen in shallow water are primarily causing mass fish deaths, not a chemical spill. The photo above was taken this week and shows dead carp floating in the Mississippi River along the

Neil Young has announced the details of his second album with his Chrome Hearts backing band.The record, which as Young first teased in May is called Second Song, will arrive Sept.…

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A 19-year-old charged after police found 16 pounds of methamphetamine in an Alton home is also suspected of shooting at police officers in St. Louis, prosecutors said.

EAST ST. LOUIS — A 15-year-old East St. Louis juvenile was arrested after a 78-year-old Jennings, Mo., man was stabbed to death Sunday night, Aug. 3, 2026, while waiting at a bus stop in East St. Louis, Illinois State Police said. The Illinois State Police Division of Criminal Investigation Zone 6 Public Safety Enforcement Group said special agents arrested the juvenile male on a charge of first-degree murder, a Class M felony, after the stabbing attack that killed John W. Allen. East

At the Oct. 9, 1912, annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Anti Horse Thief Association in Monett, members passed a resolution denouncing a proposed constitutional amendment to restructure Missouri’s tax system. Backers promised their proposal would ease the burden of government and fire up Missouri’s economic engine by sweeping away almost all state […]

Rush has announced a pair of new vinyl releases. The band's 2003 best-of compilation, The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974–1987, will be available on vinyl for the first time on Oct. 2.…

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First responders were met with heavy fire and smoke at a house fire in the 10400 block of Bellefontaine Road

The changes reflect the fluctuating school landscape as birth rates dropped and families shifted to charters or moved out of the city.

On August 7, one of the most far-reaching events in modern history is the start of the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, when United States forces landed in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The campaign was the first major Allied offensive against Japan in the Pacific. At the time, it mattered because it challenged Japanese expansion and helped protect sea routes linking the United States and Australia. It still matters today because it marked a turning point in the Pacific war, showing

After authorities rescued 16 children last month who had been confined to a single room in a home in rural Ohio, attention turned to their mother, who had been 15 and pregnant when she married their father. The child endangerment case has recharged a national conversation around child marriage, which is defined by the United […]

"When I initially heard it, I thought there's absolutely no way this can be true. Farming is everything, it's our way of life out here."

A resident called 911 on Thursday night after one victim showed up at a home in the 1100 block of Morris Drive, bleeding and asking for help.