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Earlier this year, some conservative states began to embrace child tax credits that put cash directly into the hands of families raising children. Long favored by liberals, child tax credits can help ease the financial burdens of parenthood and have been shown to slash childhood poverty rates. But despite initial optimism from sponsors and child […]

TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are considering changes to the way the state taxes sports gambling after receiving less than a 1% cut on more than $2.7 billion in bets in the past fiscal year. As the expiration dates for contracts between the state and sports wager operators draw nearer, Kansas is confronting an increasingly complex […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: New landscaping and a pristine streetscape wraps around the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s soon-to-open north side campus at Jefferson and Cass avenues. A tall concrete median that runs north on Jefferson is now erected to slow drag racers, and the grass on the northeastern corner is manicured and cut short. One block […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio: Plans to build the north-to-south MetroLink Green Line are over. The $1.1 billion proposal would have run a street-level light-rail train connecting Jefferson Avenue, Chippewa Street and Fairground Park. The project would have been uncompetitive and out of reach for the city’s current funding stream, St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer […]

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The City of Collinsville is now advising residents to filter their tap water before drinking or cooking after recent tests revealed rising levels of forever chemicals in the municipal water supply.

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred in the Fairground neighborhood Wednesday, and in which two police vehicles collided while on their way to the scene. According to police, a call for a shooting came in just before midnight in the 4500 block of Fair Ave. Officers [...]

ST. LOUIS - NASA’s Juno Mission will soon be coming to an end. Launched in 2011, the four-ton probe and its wide solar arrays arrived at Jupiter in 2016. Its mission? Look beneath the dense, forbidding clouds of the giant planet to answer questions about the origin and evolution of Jupiter, our solar system, and giant [...]

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has received two nominations at the 2025 International Opera Awards for Best Festival and Best World Premiere for This House.

A 29-year-old woman was injured after being robbed by an unknown woman with a knife in south St. Louis, and police are searching for the suspect.

The Illinois Department of Corrections is under scrutiny after a state audit found some employees are abusing overtime. A report from the Illinois Auditor General found some employees used paid time off before working a different shift. Those employees then got paid at their overtime rate. The audit investigated 10 employees from two prisons over [...]

Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it’s very, very easy to tell them something that they know will be interpreted as a “victory” while actually signaling something very, very different. You […]

The Rolling Stones have released a video for “Shame, Shame, Shame,” a cover of the Shirley & Company track that will appear on their upcoming reissue of their 1976 album Black and Blue.The clip,…

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On This Day, Sept. 25, 2017 ...Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers headlined the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles for what would turn out to be their final concert ever, as Petty would…

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"It was so loud, I thought Oh god am I shot?" Alderwoman Laura Keys said. "It was terrifying."

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS — A Fairview Heights Police vehicle was deliberately struck during a traffic stop Wednesday morning, Sept. 24, 2025, authorities said. At about 9 a.m. on Sept. 24, a Fairview Heights police officer initiated a traffic stop on Old Collinsville Road, approximately a quarter-mile south of Frank Scott Parkway, after noticing a vehicle with a license plate sticker that had been expired for five years. The fully marked police vehicle had its emergency lights activated. As the officer approached the vehicle from the passenger side, a gray 2018 Chevrolet Camaro collided forcefully into the rear of the police car. The impact pushed the squad car into the vehicle ahead, causing them to become lodged together. The Camaro’s driver exited the vehicle and approached the officer, who had his body camera recording. The driver admitted to consuming alcohol and “weed gummies” and said that he intentionally rammed the police vehicle because he dislikes

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BETHALTO - The St. Louis Regional Airport will host its 29th annual Wings-n-Wheels Fly-In this weekend with free activities and flights. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 and Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, community members can tour planes, bounce on inflatables, drive barrel cars and more. On Saturday, there will be a car show and discovery flights. On Sunday, kids ages 8–17 can take free Young Eagles Flights, and attendees can browse at the final Bethalto farmer’s market of the year. Organizers are looking forward to another fun event. “You can expect airplanes, cars, vendors, food, crafts, bounce houses and fun. How about that?” said Airport Director Danny Adams. “It doesn't get much better. And best of all, it’s free.” Adams noted that there will be a wide variety of airplanes available for tours and photo ops, including business jets, vintage military aircraft, single-engine and multi-engine planes, and even a quad-copter

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