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ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Regional Freightway’s 2023 Priority Projects List includes 25 projects representing a total investment of more than $3.8 billion, up from $2.75 billion last year. More than $2 billion of the total covers infrastructure projects that have recently been completed, are already funded and under construction or expected to start in 2022 and 2023, or are programmed to begin within the next few years. The list, which represents the infrastructure needs of the manufacturing and logistics industries in the Eastern Missouri and Southwestern Illinois area, indicates tremendous progress on a range of projects that will strengthen critical roads, bridges, rail infrastructure, and port and airport facilities across the bi-state St. Louis region. “These projects are supporting multimodal connectivity and providing global access to shippers and carriers throughout the world,” said Asim Raza, who leads the Freight Development and Needs Analysis Committee

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SPRINGFIELD – The unemployment rate in April 2022 stood at 5.6 percent in Alton compared to 8.3 percent the same month in 2021 and in Edwardsville remained stable at 3.4 percent to the same 3.4 percent a year ago. Granite City's rate was 4.2 percent compared to 6.7 percent in April 2021. East St. Louis has made considerable progress, moving from 12.1 percent in April 2021 to 7.7 percent in April 2022. Jersey was the lowest in the region in April 2022 at 3.7 percent compared to 4.3 percent in 2021, while Macoupin County was at 4.0 percent compared to 4.5 percent in April 2021 and Madison County was 4.1 percent in April 2021 and was at 4.9 percent in 2021 during the same month. Greene County also had a 4.1 percent rate in April 2022 and was listed at 4.9 percent in April 2021. St. Clair County is now at 5.2 percent in April and was 6.3 percent in 2021. The unemployment rate decreased over the year in all fourteen Illinois metropolitan areas in April according to preliminary data

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A black swastika was painted on the outside wall of an historically Black church in southwestern Missouri, and police are investigating the vandalism as a hate …

Bag Phones, Brick Phones, Blackberries, a Satellite Phone and more – these are some of the cellular telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone

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GLEN CARBON – Heather Hall, a fourth-grade teacher at Albert Cassens Elementary School in Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7, has received a $300 grant through WGU’s “Fund My Classroom” initiative. The funds will be used to purchase Tinker Crates to spark creativity and curiosity using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) principles for her fourth-grade students. Hall learned she was selected for the grant on May 5 when WGU staff surprised her with a check presentation at her school. The Tinker Crates will feature engaging, hands-on learning activities designed to help students discover, explore and create things in the world around them. Hall believes this method of learning is the best way for her students to acquire and retain information, while having fun doing so. The grant money received from WGU will allow Hall to add Tinker Crates to her classroom, enabling her fourth graders to use STEM learning as a key to creative problem solvin

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UVALDE, Texas — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hoping to console a city stricken by grief and anger when they meet with families affected by the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 students and two teachers. The visit to Uvalde on Sunday is Biden’s second trip in as many [...]

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - Sunday and Monday, you can honor veterans at St. Charles Memorial Gardens as part of their annual county-wide Veterans Memorial Service Program. This is the 61st annual veterans memorial service program, and it started on Wednesday and continues through Monday. Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day because of the tradition of decorating [...]

Black Lives Matter listed the grant's purpose as “to conduct activities to educate and support Black communities.”

The event started with a parade and was followed by a rally led by educators, business and state leaders.

The left lane of eastbound I-44 is now the only lane closed for road repair.

Memorial Day weekend events are scheduled to take place throughout the region.

I am thousands of miles away from the land of mass shootings, about to head out with Marian and a picnic lunch for a beautiful afternoon walking along the Coulee Verte, an elevated park similar but larger than New York's Highline Park. But don't think I'm not thinking of you. I've been collecting Republican proposals ...continue reading "Republicans have ideas about our mass shooting problem"

The 71-year-old woman was found safe.