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Emergency personnel responded to a residential fire on Griffin Drive in Bellefontaine Neighbors early Sunday morning, with all occupants and animals safely evacuated and no injuries reported. The fire occurred at approximately 2:15 AM on July 20, 2025, prompting a swift response from multiple fire departments to extinguish the blaze and secure the area. The [...]

MARYVILLE - The Home Builders and Remodelers Metro East Association (HBRMEA) is hosting a raffle to support their work in the community. Community members can buy a raffle ticket for $20 or six tickets for $100 for the chance to win $1,500 cash. Second place will take home $500 and third place will win $250. Shannon Stelling with the HBRMEA explained that proceeds from the raffle will support the organization’s work to help the local housing industry. “There’s so many good things that the HBR is doing to help support the housing industry in our local community,” she said. “You’re helping support the local association, and that money goes toward things like helping us with legislation, helping us fight regulatory issues, helping us fight unfair practices when it comes to inspections or getting permits. All of those things we’re working on the forefront of. And then we’re also working with several communities on infill programs.”

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ST. LOUIS — The American Red Cross urges all donors to give blood or platelets now to keep the blood supply strong this summer. Type O blood products are most needed on hospital shelves – especially in the face of summer challenges that can quickly cause blood and platelet reserves to drop. In addition to summer fun and holidays, severe summer weather can have a sudden impact on the ability to collect blood and platelets.?Scheduling and keeping donation appointments are crucial this month to ensure blood products are constantly available in the weeks to come for all patients, including those in trauma situations that may require several lifesaving transfusions. All blood types are needed, and donors who don’t know their blood type can learn it after donation. Book a time to give blood or platelets by visiting RedCrossBlood.org , calling 1-800-RED CROSS or by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App. For those who come to give July 15-31, 2025, the Red Cross will say thank

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At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.

Columnist Bill McClellan tells the story of George "the Creeper” Seper, a homicide detective in the early 1980s.

A man is in custody after allegedly setting a car on fire and seriously injuring another person at an apartment complex on Grant Street in Bethalto. Bethalto Police received multiple 911 calls yesterday morning reporting a man breaking windows at the complex. Upon arrival, officers found a car engulfed in flames and a person with [...]

A complex of rain and storms to our north slowly moves east southeast through the day and doesn't impact much of our viewing area. It will, however, leave behind an outflow boundary which will drift south today. There will be two impacts from this boundary that will likely settle across northern portions of our viewing [...]

Plant of the Week: Carrots. Reminder, if you want Fall carrots, sow them this week. St. Louis Master Gardeners Horticulture Answer Service: Monday through Thursday from 9 am. to 2:30 pm Plan your garden with  Seed St. Louis 2025 Planting Calendar. Start seeds indoors for August planting of lettuce and parsley. Sow Fall carrots. Transplant … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

St. Louis’ leading research university has quietly removed references to the university’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion from many of its websites amid rising federal scrutiny of higher education.

Catch up on local business appointees, awardees and new hires.

The Savannah Bananas celebrated their first trip to St. Louis with surprise pitching appearances from three former St. Louis Cardinals: Adam Wainwright on Friday, followed by Lance Lynn and Jason Isringhausen on Saturday.

ALTON - Dustin Terry captured the pole position in the main Formula 1 category, while Mark Schmerbauch won the pole in the F-Light division, and Cole Wehring won the pole in the Tri-Hull class in the qualifying races at the Alton Midwest National Powerboat Races on Saturday afternoon along the Alton riverfront. The main events all take place on Sunday, July 20, 2025, on the Alton riverfront in all three classes. In earlier qualifying races, in the main F1 class, Chris Rinker won the race, with Jeremiah Mayo coming in second, Dylan Anderson was third, Andrew Tate came in fourth, Spencer Love placed fifth, Terry came in sixth, Jared Jensen was seventh, Aiden Bennett finished eighth, Grant Schubert was in ninth, and Travis Yates was 10th. The average lap time for Rinker was 37.732 seconds for 13 laps. In the F-Light class, Shelby Love won the race with an average time of 35.281 seconds, with Schmerbauch coming in second, Treiden Schleicher was third, Brandon Bobalik came in fourth,

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