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GREENE COUNTY - A 53-year-old Jerseyville man suffered life-threatening injuries in a two-vehicle traffic crash involving a motorcycle on Kane Road at U.S. Route 67 at approximately 4:03 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Th e Following Preliminary Information is Being Released by Illinois State Police District 18 about the crash on Feb. 28, 2022, in Greene County: VEHICLES: Unit 1- 2008 Black Dodge Charger Unit 2- 1976 Bronze Harley Davidson Motorcycle DRIVERS : Unit 1- Caydn Chapman, 18-year-old male from Kane, IL Unit 2- Winfried Tasker, 53-year-old male from Jerseyville, IL – Flown to a regional hospital with life-threatening injuries. PRELIMINARY: A preliminary investigation indicates the following occurred: Unit 1 was traveling west on Kane Road at U.S. Route 67, stopped at the stop sign, in Greene County. Unit 2 was traveling south on US Route 67 approaching Kane Road. The driver of Unit 1 failed to yield to Unit 2 and proceeded through the intersection.

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Her account was suspended over a tweet in which she said ‘women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.’

She has led the nonprofit, which works to educate and promote medical advances in Missouri and stimulate the economy, for 12 years.

The pandemic exacerbated an already declining pattern.

The St. Louis firefighters union has sued the city of St. Louis, Mayor Tishaura Jones and the Civil Service Commission, calling the mayor’s recent appointment of an interim personnel director a violation of the city’s charter that could cause them “irreparable harm." Personnel Director Richard Frank resigned late last year due to medical reasons, and, per the city’s charter, an interim director was chosen from within the personnel division to serve until the mayor could appoint a permanent…

Anyone with information in either incident is asked to call St. Louis County police at 636-529-8210 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-8477.

The nation’s 100 largest metro areas accounted for 83.5% of the total metro-area job growth in the nation in 2021. St. Louis, though, lagged many of its peers.

Yolanda Soriano brings authentic Oaxacan cuisine to Lemay Ferry Road.

Firefighters Local 73 said the city commission violated city charter by allowing Mayor Tishaura Jones to appoint an interim personnel director.

"Any firm that has investments in Russia has a number of massive problems that have appeared," said Dale Walton.

Bradley A. Thompson, 37, died at the scene along Highway MM. Thompson was from Troy, Missouri.

GREENVILLE - Illinois’ Class 2A Basketball Regional Championship belongs to the Marquette Explorers. The young Explorers team had a dominating performance against the Greenville Comets with a final score of 55-24. While putting up two points in the game, #11 junior point-guard, Dre Davis, did several other key things and played a role in the Explorers championship. Davis is one of the Tucker's Automotive and Tire Explorers' Male Athletes of the Month. Davis plays small-forward, point-guard, shooting-guard, and slots for some of the Explorer’s best players like Parker Macias, Kendall Lavender, and Owen Williams. A team is only as good as its worst player and with the Explorers winning another Championship, Davis deserves a lot of credit. When asked how it felt to be sharing the championship with his teammates, Davis said, “It just feels great. We put in the work every day, so to get this outcome is awesome. We were talking about this all week and this win was something

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BRIGHTON - Junior MaCaylin Day is a multi-dimensional student-athlete for Southwestern High School. For the winter, Day is one of the Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athletes of the Month for the Piasa Birds. Day said she has always enjoyed playing her various sports. “I love the energy sports,” she said. “I like how I can play a sport and it takes everything off my mind. I love how I can provide a positive attitude even when things don’t go my way in athletics. Sports has taught me leadership and determination.” Day is an outside hitter/outside back performer in girls volleyball and plays the wing position in girls soccer. MaCaylin also plays club soccer. She said the club sports have also helped her be positive and her best self. Day said she plans to play college soccer at a four-year school. She is an exceptional student with a 3.4 GPA. At this time, she plans to major in occupational therapy in college. She added that her mom and

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Crowned by Streetsblog readers in 2015, America’s Sorriest Bus Stop is no more. The stop ran away with the title, garnering 42% of the votes in a field of eight. Streetsblog – St. Louis Stunner Runs Away With the Vote for America’s Sorriest Bus Stop The stop was removed as part of a bus system […]

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Ameren Corp. (NYSE: AEE), the St. Louis-based utility company, has added diversity duties to the corporate role of sustainability chief as a longtime executive plans to retire. The company said that effective Tuesday, Gwen Mizell has been named chief sustainability and diversity officer, an expansion of her previous duties as chief sustainability officer. Mizell was named to the then new role of chief sustainability officer, as well as vice president of innovation, in October. She reports to Ameren…

An elder statesman of Missouri politics is weighing in after Attorney General Eric Schmitt's comments this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where Schmitt used a phrase that has a well-known double meaning. "Let's go fight. Let's go win. Let's go, Brandon. God bless America," the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate said as he concluded his remarks from the stage. Monday, Schmitt shared a clip of the comments on his campaign Twitter account with the phrase that doubles…