EDWARDSVILLE - Senior shooting guard Miccah Butler led Edwardsville with 18 points in the Tigers' 61-43 win over Collinsville to win the IHSA Class 4A regional on Feb. 27, 2026, at Lucco-Jackson Gym, extending an incredible three-year career for Edwardsville. Edwardsville won again over Alton in the sectional semifinals on Tuesday night and now heads to Rock Island for the sectional championship game. Miccah had nine points in the sectional semifinal win. It's the first-ever regional championship
CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, today filed an amicus brief challenging the first Trump administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations undermining the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer health care plans. The regulations expand religious and moral exemptions to allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive car
A mother of three from rural Missouri has advanced on American Idol after performing an original song inspired by the challenges of early motherhood and postpartum depression.
Charles "Chuck" Stone Jr., a groundbreaking Black journalist and St. Louis native, is in line to be honored by having a post office named in his honor.
Venkatesh Reddy Sattaru told court officials that he "has memory issues" and did not recall the specific encounter, but acknowledged in his guilty plea that it likely could have happened.
Letter To The Editor: The governor's budget proposal (you reported on) was a good start, but he failed to address one of the affordability issues I experienced as a person with disability. I spent years in a nursing home I didn't want or need to be in. The barrier was lack of affordable and accessible housing in the community. Home and community-based alternatives to institutions provide better care, better working conditions, at less cost to the state. Fortunately, some legislators, like
Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood and Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen are among the artists paying tribute to blues singer and guitarist John Hammond, who passed away Feb. 28.The Grammy-winning Hammond, who…
CARLYLE - The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is asking the public for help as it investigates the death of 41-year-old Carlyle resident Sadie L. Tull, who was found dead at her home in the 2100 block of Fairfax Street in Carlyle, Illinois. Tull was discovered with a single gunshot wound to the head, according to information released by the Major Case Squad. The case is being investigated in Carlyle, in Clinton County. Since the investigation began, detectives have followed up on more
New rules restore officer appeal boards and mandate penalties for body camera violations, but do not include a civilian oversight panel sought by Mayor Cara Spencer.
Of course, we’ll see what comes of this, but it’s starting to look like this administration won’t outlast this level of judicial scrutiny. It may have bullied its way past courts during Trump’s first year back in office, but now lines are being drawn. Whether or not those lines matter is an open question. But […]
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