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April 27, 2026

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Souris, George A., Apr. 28, 2026, husband of the late Anne, father of Renee (Mark) and Paul (Linda). Visitation 9 am, Service 10 am, Sat. May 2 at St. Nicholas Family Life Center. Details at www.k-brothers.com. Kriegshauser BROTHERS

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The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) is hosting a ‘Fast Track Testing Day Blitz’ next week, a hiring event aimed at addressing what the department is calling a critical need for police officers. The department says it still needs to add around 300 officers after losing several hundred cops a few years ago.

Showcasing his photographs of the city of St. Louis alongside his documentation of the aftermath from the May 16 tornado, photographer Richard Sprengeler has returned to his alma mater, Southwestern Illinois College, with an exhibit of his work.

The intersection of North Fourth and West Jefferson Streets in Vandalia, IL was underwater on Wednesday.  Heavy rain earlier in the week led to the intersection closure.

You’re all sick of me saying we need to have more nuance in the discussion about AI use in the gaming industry. I get it. I’m also not going to stop. And I hope you will have noticed that I have called for nuance in both directions. While I’m more optimistic than many in our […]

Rookie Nathan Church ended the game by robbing Nick Gonzales of what would have been a walk-off, two-run homer by making a leaping catch at the left-field wall, giving the St. Louis Cardinals a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night.

A school bus crash in Greene County, Illinois, left a dozen people injured Wednesday afternoon after another vehicle crossed the center line. 

A regional police task force is targeting crime that often moves city to city, usually involving vehicles and often happening overnight.

The largest Target store in the St. Louis area is set to open its doors on May 19. It will be about 149,000 square feet, and will create more than 170 new jobs.

In internal EPA emails obtained by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the multinational conglomerate also told a Zeldin senior adviser it wanted to discuss its case before the Supreme Court.

A 16-year-old from St. Charles was injured Monday morning in a boat crash at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Furr Smoke Shop on Jefferson Avenue and Arsenal Street remains boarded up. It was condemned by the city after a shootout inside and outside of the place April 19.

As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s because traditional academic publishers have subverted the open access model to such an extent that the […]