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ALTON - The Alton Little Theater says, "Yes, love is in the air" with Joe Simonelli's stage play, With This Ring , opening on Friday, February 11th and running through Sunday, February 20th. There will be eight performances with evening shows beginning at 7:30 pm on Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Matinees on Feb. 13th and Feb. 20th will be at 2 pm. One of ALT's favorite actors, Shea Maples, will be making his directing debut with this lovely tribology about four couples living in the same New York City apartment over the span of 100 years - and yet each couple has a varying connection to a magical ring that changes the course of their love for each other. The couples, aptly portrayed by Cheri Hawkins, Kelly Hougland, Chelsea Gould, Dylan Heck, Ian Wonders, John Kirkpatrick, Gail Drillinger, and Megan Kolosieke, take on the lives of real people enduring the realities of love, pain, loss, and gain as they traverse the course of deep and lasting love. ALT welcomes newcomers

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Our Love Story: The Couple: Elizabeth & Scott Schepers from Brighton Date Met/Started Dating: October 28, 1998 Briefly Describe First Date: Went to the movies to see Something About Mary Date Married: July 20, 2002 Name Something You Enjoy Doing Together: Watching our boys play baseball & soccer, spending time with family & camping. During COVID pandemic we have done home improvements together. Share Advice For A Happy Relationship: Always say love you, be honest, and open communication is what has worked for us for 20 years.

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The donation was described as one of the largest individual gifts that each of the organizations has ever received.

Armaud Green, 18, was the youngest to die Saturday after being shot in the Kingsway East neighborhood.

Instead of an encampment for the unhoused, City Hall is now looking at a redevelopment plan for the area.

URBANA – In addition to reducing carbon emissions, innovations in the capture, transport, and storage of carbon dioxide hope to help reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions. Officials at public meetings in central Illinois describe the plan to transport CO2 through 1,300 miles of underground pipeline, crossing 12 Illinois counties, ending at a central Illinois location for storage in underground rock. Storage of CO2 is also not new. "Illinois was the first to develop a carbon dioxide storage system from industrial sources," says Duane Friend , University of Illinois Extension natural resources, environment, and energy educator. "Geologists and engineers from the U of I Prairie Research Institute and the Illinois State Geological Survey have been working on these methods for over 20 years." The process passed safety tests. "Researchers and engineers, working with Archer Daniels Midland, closely monitored the capture, injection, and observation at the Decatur-based site," Friend

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ELSAH - Historic Elsah Foundation will offer its first Hosmer-Williams Lecture of 2022: “Discovering the Underground Railroad.” The speaker will be J. Eric Robinson, assistant professor of history at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis. Robinson is a graduate of Howard University and the University of Missouri-Columbia and is currently an assistant professor of history at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy. He is a former president of the Elijah P. Lovejoy Memorial of Alton. Since 1995, his tours of the Underground Railroad in Alton have attracted guests from almost every state and from four continents. The tours have been featured in the New York Times, Business Week, and on the BBC World Service. The lecture will be held in person at Farley Music Hall in Elsah (limited capacity) on Thursday, March 3 at 7:00 pm. The presentation will be virtual and in person. If you wish to attend in person, please register in advance to ensure there is enough

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Slash will be pulling double duty on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week. The Guns N' Roses icon and his solo band, Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, are set to perform on…

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What are the Red Hot Chili Peppers are up? In a recent tweet, the "Under the Bridge" outfit shared a mysterious video featuring a clip of what might possibly be…

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ALEXANDER COUNTY - This is information from ISP about a two-vehicle fatal traffic crash on Jan. 30. The Following Preliminary Information is Being Released by Illinois State Police District 22 WHAT: Two-Vehicle Fatal Traffic Crash. WHERE: Illinois Route 3, just south of Illinois Route 127, Alexander County WHEN: Jan. 30, 2022 at approximately 4:42 a.m. VEHICLES: Unit 1 – Orange 2017 Ford F650 Box Truck Unit 2 – White 2008 Mercedes-Benz AMG DRIVERS : Unit 1 – A 59-year-old male from Stone Mountain, GA – Deceased Unit 2 – Correy Wilson, a 47-year-old male from Cairo, IL – Transported by ambulance to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. PASSENGER: Unit 1 – A 76-year-old female from Stone Mountain, GA - Deceased PRELIMINARY: Preliminary investigative details indicate the following occurred: Unit 1 was northbound on Illinois Route 3, just south of Illinois Route 127 in Alexander County

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SPRINGFIELD - Illinois State Police released this information on a fatal single-vehicle crash on Friday. The Following Preliminary Information is Being Released by Illinois State Police District 9 WHAT: Single-Vehicle Fatal Crash WHERE: Interstate 72 eastbound near Milepost 105, Springfield, Sangamon County WHEN: Jan. 28, 2022, at approximately 11:49 p.m. VEHICLE: Unit 1 – Gray 2017 Toyota Camry DRIVER: Unit 1 – Terieica L. Smith, a 44-year-old female from Decatur, IL – Deceased. PRELIMINARY: Preliminary reports indicate the following occurred: Unit 1 was traveling east on Interstate 72, near Milepost 105 in Sangamon County. For an unknown reason, Unit 1 drove off the right side of the roadway and struck a tree. The driver of Unit 1 was transported to an area hospital where she succumbed to her injuries. No further information will be disseminated at this time.

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Marcus Robinson has drawn sharp criticism from Normandy residents and North County leaders as superintendent of schools.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - A female donkey was found by police in Jefferson County Sunday. Now they are searching for her owner. The Byrnes Mill Police Department said on Facebook that they couldn't believe it when they got a call for a donkey in a resident's yard, but then they received another call about the [...]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hospitals across Missouri are asking staff members and administrators to take on additional duties to help deal with the current surge in COVID-19 patients. Hospital employees …

"According to the Department of Education, 47% of people who don't fill out the FAFSA would have received some kind of aid if they had."

State officials last year investigated allegations that a law enforcement officer pointed a handgun at his son’s head while intoxicated.  The same officer was also intoxicated during “multiple incidents of domestic disturbances,” Sandy Karsten, director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety, testified last week during a Senate committee hearing.  Karsten wanted to suspend the […]

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