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A family is in mourning after learning that one of their loved ones was found deceased in a home that caught fire in Wellston.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]

At least two members of the Grohl family are readying new albums.Dave Grohl is putting out a new Foo Fighters record, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24. Meanwhile, his daughter Violet…

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BJC Healthcare announced a new compensation structure that it says would maintain or increase pay for 72% of its employees, but the health system did not immediately clarify impacts on the remaining 28% of its workforce.

A St. Louis man was sentenced Thursday for a scheme taking place in multiple states that stole nearly $300,000 worth of merchandise from Kohl's.

The 10th annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert will take place March 5 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, but you don't have to be in the Big Apple…

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Robert Cornejo, a former state legislator and associate circuit judge, succeeds Matthew Thornhill, who was ousted by the Missouri Supreme Court.

ST. LOUIS –U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced a man who stole nearly $300,000 worth of online merchandise from Kohl’s to 87 months in prison. Judge Autrey also ordered Marshall Lampkin, 36, to pay the retailer $301,713 and forfeit the stolen items that have been recovered. According to evidence and testimony at Lampkin’s trial in August, Lampkin carried out his scheme by first using Kohl’s Cash to purchase merchandise in a Kohl’s store,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) pressed a top U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) leader, Mr. Mark Ditlevson, to assure the American people that the Trump Administration would not station troops near polling places in future elections, which is against the law and against our nation’s fundamental democratic values. When Mr. Ditlevson refused to provide that assurance at his nomination hearing today, Duckworth pressed further asking him what th

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of birthright citizenship. Raoul and a multistate coalition filed the brief in support of a legal challenge to President Trump’s unlawful effort to rewrite the Constitution and overturn federal law. On his first day in office in 2025, President Trump issued an executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship for countless children born in the United States to immigrant

Pressured by businesses on the importance of immigrant labor, some Republican states are backing off plans to require all employers to check for legal employment status before hiring workers. State and federal legislation to require that employers use E-Verify, a federal system to check legal status, has been limited this year as a push grows […]

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Chicago, Feb. 26, 2026 — Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) filed an attorney disciplinary complaint today against Department of Justice lawyer Sean Skedzielewski. The complaint focuses on Skedzielewski’s remarks to a federal judge in Chicago that immigration agents’ violations of protesters and journalists’ rights were justified by “a riot with violent terrorist organizations attempting to dox ICE and their famil[ies].” But no such terrorist riot ever occurred.

The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at FPF:

“It does not take a scholar of legal ethics to conclude that government lawyers should not be allowed to make up a violent and organized terrorist invasion of a major American city. That we have a presidential administration that lies constantly to justify its lack of transparency and crackdowns on First Amendment freedoms does not license government attorneys to repeat the same nonsense in courts of law. The Attorney Grievance Committee should use this opportunity to send a clear message that government lawyers are expected to uphold the Constitution, not undermine it with fabricated hysteria.”

The complaint, which was filed with the Attorney Grievance Committee in New York, where Skedzielewski is licensed to practice law, is available here.

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CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with a bipartisan group of 11 attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), reached a $100 million multistate settlement with Walmart today over allegations that the company deceived customers and drivers who participated in its Spark Driver (Spark) program. Walmart has paid Illinois drivers more than $1.1 million because of Walmart’s alleged actions. Raoul and the coalition’s settlement resolves allegations that Walmart

Joan Jett is a guest on the latest episode of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Music Makes Us podcast, where she opened up about musicians not being afraid to speak out when…

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EDWARDSVILLE - The League of Women Voters and the NAACP hosted a candidate forum ahead of the primary election on March 17, 2026. Candidates for Illinois’s 15th Congressional District include Ryan Tebrugge (R), Judy Bowlby (R), Randy Raley (D), Jennifer Todd (D), Kyle Nudo (D) and Dr. Paul Davis (D). Incumbent Mary Miller (R) was unable to attend. During the forum on Feb. 25, 2026, each candidate introduced themselves and answered questions. Tebrugge shared that he grew up on a farm