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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging those with weakened immune systems to get their COVID vaccine booster shots sooner.

Rare earth minerals — the commodities used to manufacture everything from smartphones to missile systems to electric vehicles — are in high demand. Missouri State Geologist Joe Gillman discusses the search for critical minerals in the Midwest.

Rare earth minerals — the commodities used to manufacture everything from smartphones to missile systems to electric vehicles — are in high demand. Missouri State Geologist Joe Gillman discusses the search for critical minerals in the Midwest.

Police were called to an address in Cahokia Heights Sunday morning after two people were shot to death during a domestic incident.

Billy Joel has always been a huge supporter of the arts, as well as a huge supporter of his home base of Long Island, New York. Now, he's shown once…

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Our Love Story: The Couple: Brooke "Babe and Kenneth "Love" from Cottage Hills Date Met/Started Dating: November 11, 2017 Briefly Describe First Date: We drove down the river road. Date Married: October 21, 2023 Name Something You Enjoy Doing Together: Riding motorcycles, hanging out with our nieces and nephews, going to the movies, and camping. Share Advice For A Happy Relationship: Communication, praying for each other, always stay dating each other.

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ALTON - The Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the Alton Police Department teamed together on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, to get a juvenile in custody after a report of a reckless driver. The call about the driver came in at 8:37 a.m. Monday, and Madison County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Will Dimitroff said it was determined it was a stolen vehicle and the young driver was “driving erratically.” “We pursued it into the City of Alton and the car was eventually stopped by the City of Alton Police and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office,” Capt. Dimitroff added. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office captain said the case is under review about potential charges of aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer and stolen vehicle. Dimitroff said he was thankful the juvenile was taken into custody and off the road. Capt. Dimitroff thanked the Alton Police for their cooperation in stopping the reckless driver.

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Our Love Story: The Couple: Shaun & Nikki from Alton Date Met/Started Dating: August 19, 2021 Briefly Describe First Date: He hopped in my DM on social media asking if I wanted to go on a date, that he would take me. I declined, letting him know I don’t need a pity date - I want something real. Date Married: Name Something You Enjoy Doing Together: We enjoy date nights out in town patronizing our local businesses. Our favorite is Macs TimeOut and Santinos. We really enjoy a Netflix and chill kind of night the most. Foot rubs and a good movie. Share Advice For A Happy Relationship: Never expect your partner to make you happy. Do the work to keep yourself happy.

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Arguments in Missouri Supreme Court on controversial new gun law focus mainly on procedural questions.

Our Love Story: The Couple: Allen & Kayla from East Alton Date Met/Started Dating: December 2, 2010 Briefly Describe First Date: Buffalo Wild Wings, He gave me his hoodie because it was cold outside. Date Married: July 25, 2015 Name Something You Enjoy Doing Together: Working on cars, fishing, camping, taking our RZR out. Share Advice For A Happy Relationship: Never go to bed angry, and always love each other when times get tough.

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Rod Stewart spent the weekend celebrating two things: the engagement of his daughter, Kimberly Stewart, and the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's ascension to the throne. Kimberly, Rod's daughter…

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The European Union's data privacy law, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), has caused all sorts of problems since its debut. Its debut was itself a mess, something that immediately resulted in a whole lot of websites simply refusing to allow European users to connect with them.

Since it was unclear how to avoid running afoul of the law, it was easier to avoid potential fines by simply cutting European users out of the equation. For everyone else, it was being greeted with a new warning about cookies at nearly every website they visited -- a small hassle to be sure, but a hassle nonetheless.

Then there were the truly unexpected consequences of the new law that imposed data-gathering and data-sharing restrictions on any business, whether they were internet-based or not. In some areas, GDPR was read as requiring retailers to notify purchasers of items when the items were returned -- something that would make the exchange of unwanted Christmas gifts extremely awkward.

In another weird case, post offices in Ireland removed waste bins from their facilities because customers were throwing out unwanted mail and receipts, resulting the offices' unintentional collection of personal data. When the waste bins went missing, customers resorted to throwing their trash on post office counters and floors, leaving it even more unregulated than it was when the waste bins were still in place.

Yet another side effect no one saw coming: the use of Google's Font API was enough to get a website fined by a German court. (via Slashdot)

Earlier this month, a German court fined an unidentified website €100 ($110, £84) for violating EU privacy law by importing a Google-hosted web font.

The decision, by Landgericht München's third civil chamber in Munich, found that the website, by including Google-Fonts-hosted font on its pages, passed the unidentified plaintiff's IP address to Google without authorization and without a legitimate reason for doing so. And that violates Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The court says whether or not Google did anything with the forwarded IP address is beside the point. The fact is the website engaged in the unauthorized transmission of this IP address to Google by using its font API to access a font to render the text on the site. The court's decision points out this can be avoided by self-hosting the font and notes that the website operator has chosen to do this going forward. That being said, the court still feels a fine is the only way to ensure future compliance with GDPR.

Risk of repetition is to be affirmed. It is undisputed that the plaintiff's IP address was forwarded to Google when the plaintiff visited the defendant's website. Previous unlawful impairments justify an actual assumption of the risk of repetition, which was not refuted by the defendant. The risk of repetition is not eliminated by the fact that the defendant now uses Google Fonts in such a way that the IP address of the website visitor is no longer disclosed to Google. The risk of repetition can only be eliminated by a declaration of discontinuance with a penalty.

The fine here may have been minimal, but the law allows a penalty of €250,000 ($286,000) per violation, which the court warns the website operator is not only possible, but probable, if the problem doesn't go away. There's also the (very slim) chance the improper use of Google Fonts could result in prison time, because that's also a potential GDPR violation penalty.

While the solution here appears to be simple enough -- self-host fonts -- the reality of the situation is that this decision will lead to yet another pop-up asking for consent that will stand between site users and the content they're trying to access, and that no one will read before clicking "accept." It won't make the web a better place and it won't do much to limit the sharing of personal data with off-site entities. It will just make everything a little more annoying.

Our Love Story: The Couple: Curt & Vikki from Moro Date Met/Started Dating: March 28, 2007 Briefly Describe First Date: Mall & Applebee’s for dinner Date Married: July 18, 2009 Name Something You Enjoy Doing Together: Traveling, riding our motorcycle, getting together with friends & family, and trying new restaurants. Share Advice For A Happy Relationship: Be the real you. Have fun & create a lifetime of memories! Talk things out and laugh about it later!

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Feldman landed new full-time job outside of radio and can't work on morning-drive show with Debbie Monterrey. Station hopes to bring him back in future.

For the first time since December, the seven-day average of new daily COVID-19 admissions was less than 100.