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The Town and Country-based private university said the project, which will be about a five-minute drive from its main campus, is aimed at enhancing the college experience for its rapidly growing student body.

"Strange Game," Mick Jagger's theme song to the new Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, was released today as a digital single, coinciding with the premiere of the show's first two…

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An Amazon warehouse on Staten Island has voted to unionize: 2654 yes, 2131 no. It's over.#Amazonlabor — David Dayen (@ddayen) April 1, 2022 This is great news for the Amazon Labor Union, a new union founded only last year. An Amazon warehouse in Alabama, organized by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, lost its ...continue reading "Workers finally win vote to unionize Amazon"

LITCHFIELD – Illinois State Police (ISP) District 18 Commander, Mark Gillock, announces the ISP will conduct Roadside Safety Checks (RSC) in Greene County during the month of April. The RSC combines a strong sense of public awareness and enforcement in order to save lives of the motoring public. These patrols are conducted between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. The ISP has zero tolerance for impaired driving in Illinois. Alcohol and drug impairment are a factor in more than 30 percent of all fatal motor vehicle crashes in Illinois, and throughout the U.S., nearly 10,000 people die each year due to alcohol-impaired driving. RSCs are designed to keep our roads safe by taking dangerous DUI offenders off the road. The project is funded through the Illinois Department of Transportation. Officers working the detail will be watchful for drivers who are operating vehicles in an unsafe manner, driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license, transporting open alcoholic beverages,

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Raintree School plans eventually to expand to 120 students if St. Louis County voters approve a lease in Queeny Park.

A night of soul-stirring jazz awaits you at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts on Thursday, April 14. “An Evening with Branford Marsalis” is must-see.

Ordinary Man, the star-studded 2020 album Ozzy Osbourne made with producer Andrew Watt, was a huge success -- so they've made another one, which features even more stars than the…

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I have to admit that it’s been somewhat amusing watching Truth Social flop. After months of rumors (and a variety of competitors targeting the Trumpworld), Trump announced plans for his own Twitter clone, Truth Social, in October of last year, using a sketchy financial instrument to fund it. He found a perfect dupe in Congressman […]

ALTON - The City of Alton, CJD, and Republic Services are partnering on a bulk/large item drop-off day in Alton. This event allows residents to dispose of large items & electronics at no charge. The drop-off drive will be Saturday, April 2, 2022, from 8:00 A.M. until 12:00 P.M. This event will take place at 1 Henry Street. We will be using the entrance off of Ridge St across from the Marian Heights (the former Old Great Central Lumber Company). Items that will be accepted include mattresses, furniture, bulky items that don’t fit in your trash cart, and carpet (cut into 4-ft lengths). There will also be an E-Waste recycling drive, provided on-site. Residents may bring electronics such as old CRT, projection, console televisions, and CRT computer monitors for recycling. Items that will NOT be accepted include, but are not limited to, appliances (refrigerators, washers/dryers, etc.) concrete, shingles, construction debris, loose trash, trash in bags and cardboard boxes, tires, an

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Making communities pet friendly is a hot topic as more and more of us have fur babies and want to include them in our daily lives away from the home. Leib Dodell and the Bar K team are on a roll in meeting this need. Already Wildly successful in KC they opened in The Grove […]

At Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse, workers have broken through corporate America’s unified, furious opposition to giving employees a voice on the job.

According to an operating manual for the FreeFall ride, the weight limit for the ride was about 287 pounds. Sampson's father said he weighed about 325 pounds.

An explosion from the basement of the Master Auto Repair in the 7000 block of Hampton Avenue led to a partial building collapse.

Today on TAP: The failure of Manchin, Sinema, and Kelly to confirm David Weil as the top official cracking down on wage theft is not principled moderation. It’s all about corporate money.

The American economy gained 431,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 341,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate fell yet again to 3.6%. This is yet another strong jobs report. However, wage growth was terrible: adjusted for inflation, ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Net new jobs in March"

U2 frontman Bono was honored by the Fulbright Association on Thursday in Washington, D.C., with its 2021 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, acknowledging the singer's his dedication to…

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