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Conservative Caucus members are trying to advance the high-profile, hot-button issues they support by tacking the policies on as amendments to other bills.

Remember NetzDG? This is the German content moderation law that has been a complete disaster from day one. It puts all sorts of requirements on social media companies to remove undesirable content in a very short period of time. Other countries, like Turkey, have used it as inspiration to pass their own laws to censor […]

GODFREY - A man accused of crashing a pickup truck into a 2-year-old girl and her dog, killing both, has pleaded guilty to failure to report an accident involving injury or death. Paul Broadway, 64, of Godfrey, was charged after an Aug. 31, 2020, accident in which the pickup truck he was driving crashed into Ellee Grace Kiser, 2, of Godfrey. The victim ran into the roadway at Pine Grove and West Broadway. The child died at St. Anthony’s Health Center a day later of head injuries. Broadway left the scene but was arrested by Alton police the next day. Broadway pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a prosecution agreement that he be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison. A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date. At a press conference shortly after the accident, Sheriff John Lakin said that, after the accident was reported, the Sheriff’s Office was flooded with calls from the public. Police obtained a description of the truck, and the accident

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FLORA - On March 9, 2022, Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Zone 8 announce the arrest of Phillip Blaine Henson, a 52-year-old male from Flora, IL, for Drug Induced Homicide (Class X Felony). On November 17, 2022, at approximately 1:26 p.m., the ISP DCI - Zone 8 was requested to conduct a death investigation in Flora, IL. A female, later identified as Stephanie L. Harrell, a 54-year-old of Flora, IL, was found deceased in her vehicle parked in an agricultural field entrance on Olive Street, just north of US Highway 50 in Clay County. On March 8, 2022, Phillip Blaine Henson was charged with Drug Induced Homicide (Class X Felony), filed in the Circuit Court for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Illinois in Clay County. Henson is currently detained at the Vanderburgh County Jail in Evansville, Indiana with bond of $1,000,000 / 10 % to apply. No further information is available at this time. ISP DCI - Zone 8 was assisted by the South Eastern Illinois

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Multiple burglaries occurred in mid-February.

Two officers were injured and another was killed in a shooting Tuesday.

Each week we bring you our picks for the best shows of the next seven days!…

Veering from the false realism of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy and the more earnest fantasias of Zack Snyder's work, Matt Reeves' The Batman moves toward a looser and better-humored fantasy space in its treatment of its title figure.…

Several firefighters responded to a blaze at a north St. Louis County apartment complex Wednesday afternoon.

Piper Johnson and her mother her were found by police in Utah Wednesday, more than 1,000 miles from home.

ALTON - Alton School District is working on the last leg of renovations at Alton Middle School located at 2200 College Avenue and is offering up novelty auditorium seats to anyone interested. As a part of their renovation, they are getting new seating, new carpet and paint, a larger stage, new sound and light equipment and more. Each party is limited to small number of seats. Pickup time has been updated to avoid the before and after school traffic. Please call to schedule your pickup time. Appointments will be available between 9 am and 2:45 p.m. and between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. this Friday, March 11. No tools are needed, they will even help you load your truck or trailer. To schedule your pickup or for more information contact Ann Norman at 618-433-7850.

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The Missouri State Highway Patrol is looking into a possible drowning in a pond in north county off Dunn Road.

KMOV (Channel 4) management told staff earlier this week that the station plans to relocate and is considering a location outside the city, sources said.

THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA comes out looking pretty good in a new report from the Brookings Institution, which calls attention to St. Louis and other “rising stars” that have done a solid job in recent years of adding jobs in fast-growing technology sectors. Employment data from 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

The site once housed a restaurant tied to ex-Cardinals broadcaster Mike Shannon. Now a developer wants to build 125 to 130 apartment units, with retail on the ground floor.

One of Cortex’s first tenants in the early aughts, Stereotaxis has now moved to a new headquarters in downtown St. Louis. CEO David Fischel explains why he bet big on the surgical device maker and why the former home of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat makes sense for its future growth.

Michael Kelly, of St. Ann, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds around 11 a.m. Tuesday in the 3900 block of North 25th Street, police said.

WOOD RIVER - It's been said that of all the sports that anyone could take up, wrestling is perhaps the one sport that requires the most discipline and sacrifice of all. It's constant weight-watching, requires very hard work and a lot of sacrifices, both of self and for the team. It's not an easy sport to master. In the case of eight-year-old Karson Stoeckel of Wood River, he may very well be on his way to becoming a top high school and college wrestler in the future. Stoeckel recently won the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation bantam state championship at 46 pounds in a tournament held at Bolingbrook High School in suburban Chicago. And to say that both his teams and his family are proud of him is just scratching the surface. Stoeckel is a Midwest Members Credit Union Male Athlete of the Month For Roxana. "I'm very, very, very proud of him," said Lindsey Quigley, Karson's mother, in a recent interview. "He has been working his tail off to prepare for this, and this was his third

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