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The Pearl Jam camp is celebrating their own fuzzy Christmas miracle.The three kittens that the grunge rockers have been fostering at their Seattle headquarters have now been officially adopted.As previously…
GODFREY – Godfrey Village Board members quickly and unanimously passed a corrected version of the decreased tax levy ordinance approved earlier this month. At their last meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025 , trustees were originally set to approve a “flat” tax levy representing neither an increase or decrease over last year’s levy. Trustee Mike Fisher then proposed lowering the levy by 0.5%, which passed by a vote of 5-1, with Trustee Rick Lauschke casting the sole vot
Late Motörhead frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister would've turned 80 on Wednesday, and the band is celebrating the occasion with a throwback to another milestone birthday.The Motörhead YouTube channel has uploaded the band's…
Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There’s just one problem with this theory: Google built its entire business […]
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Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson is paying tribute to the band’s original guitarist Mick Abrahams, who passed away Dec. 19 at the age of 82.In a post on the band’s website,…
2025 began with the surprise news that the original Black Sabbath lineup — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — would be reuniting for one final show. It was…
The Alton Playground and Recreation Commission announced in a December 24, 1925 Alton Evening Telegraph article that it had worked out a plan with the City of Alton to reserve four “good hills” for coasting when there was sufficient snow that winter. Superintendent John E. McWherter of the Recreation Commission met with Mayor George T. Davis, City Counsellor J.F. McGinnis, and Chief of Police Gustave Rotsch to work out a plan. “It was agreed that in case of snow, Summit
Yeah, the economy sucks and trade-war tariff agendas are only making things worse. But as Trump promised/threatened during a recent national address from the White House, things are turning around, even if you (MAGA voters especially) are too stupid to see it. It looks like the first growth market to see a significant increase might […]