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As the REAL ID deadline looms, Missouri and Illinois residents are rushing to local DMVs, but many are walking away confused, frustrated or empty-handed.

The split among Senate Republicans over a bill allowing Missouri students to enroll in neighboring school districts widened to a chasm they could not bridge Wednesday after the legislation was tied to an obligation to fully fund public education. The state Senate debated the legislation, dubbed “open enrollment,” for five hours, finally setting it aside […]

On Wednesday, a jury found a 61-year-old man guilty of multiple sex crimes involving children.

Operations have been halted at the St. Louis County Animal Control and Adoption Center as the facility responds to a case of canine parvovirus.

A bankruptcy court judge in St. Louis has approved the appointment of a data privacy czar for a potential sale of the genetic testing firm.

The 2025 Loop Trolley season kicks off tomorrow, May 1.

The Chicago Department of Health and Cook County Department of Public Health confirmed two measles cases.

After a car was swept off a Clinton County road by flash flooding, two brothers dropped their boat in a ditch to rescue a woman clinging to brush.

ALTON/GODFREY - A special volunteer was recently recognized for his dedication to keeping the community clean. Robert Lack, age 8, was awarded the Outstanding Citizen Award at the Pride, Inc. Annual Celebration last weekend. Lack has spent the last five years picking up trash every time he takes a walk with his family. “I don’t want the earth to be polluted,” Lack explained. “One day when I was walking with my dad when I was 3 years old, we saw trash and we decided to pick it up. And every time we went for a walk, we would grab our grabbers and a trash bag and start picking up the street.” Pride, Inc. has many beautification initiatives throughout Godfrey and Alton. Pat Stewart, president of Pride, Inc., explained that the organization held their Annual Celebration as a way to recognize community members who go out of their way to improve the Riverbend region. Lack has been on their radar for five years, and Stewart was ecstatic to honor him wit

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement during a Senate Democratic spotlight hearing entitled “Clear and Present Danger: The Trump Administration’s Whitewashing of the January 6th Insurrection.” The witnesses include Harry Dunn, former U.S. Capitol Police Officer, and Daniel Hodges, an 11-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), who were both brutally attacked by the insurrectionist mob on January 6, as well as Mike Romano and Sara Levine, two former prosecutors in the now-disbanded Capitol Siege section within the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. The hearing will focus on honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol; acknowledging the work of the prosecutors who brought the January 6 insurrectionists to justice in the years following the attack; and condemning President Trump’s dangerous

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today participated in a Committee hearing entitled “Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation.” During the hearing, Durbin emphasized the disastrous consequences of the Trump Administration’s desire to slash federal funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), effectively grinding medical research in the U.S. to a halt. Drawing from his family’s own experience , Durbin began his remarks, “If you’ve ever been a parent sitting in a doctor’s office with a baby on your lap and heard those words that were changing about a diagnosis, you knew your life would never be the same.” “The questions that you would ask, I’ve been there, were pretty obvious. Is there a medicine? Is there a surgery? Is there a procedure? If not, is there a clinical trial? We all ask the same questions

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GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College and CJD E-Cycling will host a community E-Waste event from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3, 2025, in the Tolle Lane parking lot across from the college’s Godfrey Campus. Most items will be accepted for free, providing community members with a secure, Earth-friendly option for discarding used electronics. The following is a sampling of the items that will be accepted: Servers Switches, PC towers Printers Landline phones Cable boxes Cell phones Wireless modems Servers Audio and video equipment Holiday lights Home electronics Lead acid batteries CRT, Console, Projection, Plasma, and Flat Screen TVs and computer monitors. (Please note that CRT, Projection, Plasma, Console, and Flat Screen TVs will be accepted with a minimal charge between $5 and $35 based on size; computer monitors with no tower will be accepted with a minimal charge of $5-$10.) Dehumidifiers and Refrigerators ($5-$10 each) The

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ALTON – A man from St. Louis faces a felony charge in the newest case of forgery at Schwegel’s Market in Alton. Antwayne O. Bradley, 29, of St. Louis, was charged on April 25, 2025, with one count of forgery, a Class 3 felony. Charging documents state that Bradley knowingly presented a fraudulent check to Schwegel’s Market on Feb. 21, 2025. The check, purported to have been made out by Chipotle Services LLC, was written out in the amount of $527.71 and dated Feb. 19, 2025. The Alton Police Department presented the case against Bradley, who was granted pretrial release from custody. This marks the fourth such case of forgery at Schwegel’s Market reported so far in 2025, after three other local individuals were charged with similar offenses in March. It also marks the latest in a string of similar forgery cases at the same location filed in recent years, including two individuals charged in December of 2024 , an Edwardsville

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Last year, we were thrilled with the success of our Kickstarter campaign for One Billion Users, the Social Media Card Game. In case you missed it at the time, One Billion Users is a fun, fast-paced game where 2-4 players compete to build the biggest and best social media network. Now, the game is about […]

MARYVILLE - The Village of Maryville will host their second annual Maryville MusicFest this weekend. From 1–10 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2025, community members are invited to Firemen’s Park in Maryville for a day of live music, food trucks and fun. There will be ten bands playing on two stages throughout the day. “It’s a music festival,” explained Dawn Mushill, president of the Troy/Maryville/St. Jacob/Marine Chamber of Commerce, who helped promote the event. “These guys have worked so hard, and this bandstand that they’re looking at is going to just add so much to Maryville.” Tickets to the event cost $20. Kids ages 12 and under are free. Proceeds will go to Build Maryville to build a permanent entertainment pavilion and stage at the park. “It’s an all-day event for $20,” Mushill said. “All day. You can come see all the bands.” The event itself is cash only. There will be food trucks onsite,

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