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San Diego FC intends to take steps to discourage its fans from engaging in the homophobic chant that marred the Major League Soccer expansion club's inaugural home match last weekend.

The Missouri Senate Education Committee discussed legislation Tuesday seeking to ban materials deemed explicit from digital libraries and hold library boards responsible for the content made available to minors. State Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican, filed legislation applying safety measures to “digital library catalogs” after hearing about explicit material available on a state-subsidized […]

Two people from Desloge, Missouri, died Monday in a head-on collision on a rural highway in Mark Twain National Forest.

“I want to have rural Missouri have more of a say in what goes on the ballot,” said Republican Sen. Jason Bean, a Bootheel region cotton farmer.

Trump’s second term has elevated a bunch of people who have no idea what they’re doing to positions of power where every blunder is just considered to be the acceptable outcome for an administration that likes breaking things even more than it likes moving fast. The Department of Government Efficiency still isn’t an official government […]

POCAHONTAS – Attorney General Kwame Raoul charged a Pocahontas, Illinois man for allegedly producing and disseminating child sexual abuse material. The case is part of Raoul’s ongoing work, in collaboration with federal law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement officials throughout Illinois, to apprehend offenders who download and trade child sexual abuse material online. Raoul’s investigators, along with officers from the Illinois State Police (ISP) and Bond County Sheriff’s Department, conducted a search of Blankley’s residence in the 600 block of Academy Street in Pocahontas on Feb. 27, 2025. Blankley was taken into custody after investigators discovered evidence of child sexual abuse material. The Attorney General’s office charged Aaron R. Blankley, 47, in Bond County Circuit Court with 10 counts of dissemination of child pornography, each Class X felonies punishable by up to 30 years in prison; and five counts of possession of

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ST. LOUIS -- Brianna Bagwell is a former Wish recipient at Make-A-Wish Illinois who received a renovated "Mystery Machine" inspired by the cartoon Scooby Doo. Help kids just like Bagwell receive their wishes while facing critical illnesses and enter the 2025 Wish Home Raffle. Your $100 ticket will help Make-A-Wish kids across Illinois, Missouri, and [...]

WOOD RIVER – In an occasionally heated Monday night, March 3, 2025, meeting, members of the Wood River City Council shared dueling perspectives on alleged mismanagement of city TIF funds and agreements. Two meetings ago on Feb. 17, 2025, Councilman Bill Dettmers called for a forensic audit and independent investigation into the city , alleging city officials made unauthorized payments to developers, changed parts of TIF agreements without council approval, and much more. To address these and other concerns, Dettmers called for a special meeting to be held on Feb. 24, 2025. He was told two council members would need to request the meeting in writing; the next day, the city announced a special meeting would be held on Feb. 24. T he special meeting could not be held after Mayor Tom Stalcup and Councilmen Jeremy Plank and Scott Tweedy chose not to attend, ensuring there would be no quorum and no city business could be conducted. Stalcup and P

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The Missouri Department of Conservation says a cybersecurity vendor recently notified the department of suspicious activity on one of its data servers.

Eliminating the $200 annual fee will cost the town about $2,600 in revenue this year, town officials said.

WASHINGTON – Today in a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced that he will host Dr. Elizabeth Sokol, a pediatric oncologist and researcher from Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, as his guest for President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress tomorrow evening. In his remarks, Durbin underscored that President Trump and Elon Musk’s move to gut funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will have disastrous, long-term impacts for Americans suffering from cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and more, as well as for NIH-funded researchers like Dr. Sokol. “This annual address traces its roots back to our Founding Fathers, but I doubt they would even recognize their beloved country today. With President Trump and Elon Musk acting unrestrained, we are barreling down a dangerous path to a constitutional crisis,” Durbin said. “I’m going to have a guest at the Address tomorrow night,

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Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is hitting the road this summer for his first North American solo tour in almost 30 years.The Mandrake Project Live 2025 North American tour, in support…

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Bruno David is pleased to present Femme In The End Times, an exhibition by artist Danielle Mužina. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In conjunction with […]

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Bruno David Gallery presents Music: The Art of Seeing, an exhibition of new paintings by Frank Schwaiger. Frank Schwaiger’s art has been widely exhibited. He is a graduate of the […]

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