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EDWARDSVILLE – The Metro-East Lutheran High School music department will go for the gold on Sunday, May 1, with a spring concert that is a tribute to the world of sports. The concert, which will begin at 4 p.m., will feature MELHS’s band, choir, strings ensemble guitar ensemble and choirchime ensemble.The program will focus on a sports theme, with musical selections ranging from “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and the theme from “Rocky” to John Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare” and the theme music from the NFL on FOX. “Some of this music is really challenging and some of it is more tongue-in-cheek, but the whole program should really be just a lot of fun,” said Karen Shimkus, music director at MELHS. The concert, which will last about an hour, will be held in Henschen Hall at the school’s campus at 6305 Center Grove Road in Edwardsville. The event is open to the public. The MELHS music department recently celebrated

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"I made a promise to Nekia (Tyre's mom) that Tyre's legacy would live on," the Pro Bowl lineman said on Instagram.

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EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Tuesday afternoon Jerrica Christine Rudebeck, age 31, now residing in Belleville, was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Madison County to a term of four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for her role in stealing over a half a million dollars from a small family business in Granite City. Rudebeck pleaded guilty to the offenses on December 6, 2021. The victims of this crime were Jeff and Todd Overby, owners of Overby InkJet Solutions. Over a period of six years, after earning the trust and respect of the Overbys with whom the defendant worked in very close proximity, she started stealing from their business, eventually stealing over $500,000. This created a deep financial hole for the Overbys by plunging them, unknowingly, into crippling debt. Through hard work and incredible resilience by the entire family, their business has thankfully survived. “Small businesses are the bedrock of our community,”

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LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who got elected by appealing to the Hispanic community and promising to represent them, has turned out to be an unbelievable piece of shit. His latest stunt is to open a criminal investigation of an LA Times reporter who obtained surveillance video that Villanueva didn't want her to have: Los ...continue reading "Alex Villanueva is a horrible human being"

A Cole County judge denied the state health department’s attempt to relitigate a case stemming from a 2019 licensing dispute with Missouri’s lone abortion provider and ordered Missouri to pay …

The Wentzville community is coming together to honor the life of a young boy who died of cancer during a Make-A-Wish trip. 

Negotiators now have a little more than a week to hash out differences between the House and Senate's proposed spending plans before the May 6 deadline.

Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine, the 2021 documentary about the Canadian power trio Triumph, will get its global streaming premiere via the nugs.net platform on Friday, May 13, at 8:30…

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Last year, an RFT cover story detailed a brutal beating at the downtown City Justice Center, which was captured on surveillance video. The attack on the victim, pseudonymously named Edward, appeared to be undertaken with the blessing of a corrections officer named Demeria Thomas. The story made international news, though Thomas’ motivations remained unknown.

Three eastbound lanes on the Poplar Street Bridge will be closed on Wednesday.

Greitens says he wants to defend himself against his ex-wife’s allegations. Her lawyers say the information he seeks isn’t relevant to the case.

The Wall Street Journal editorial page is obsessed with Elon Musk and Twitter: Two-thirds of their featured opinion pieces are about Musk and Twitter. Why are conservatives so preoccupied with Twitter? For that matter, why is everyone so preoccupied with the fate of America's 15th biggest social media company?

The idea that there is a link between the exclusivity period on patents and higher drug prices is about as noncontroversial as a view can be. It is the easy question on an ECON 101 exam on monopolies, supply and demand. Yet, somehow, this has come under attack thanks to big PhRMA and their minions. […]