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City Museum’s Spooky Halloween Season on weekends  ’til – Oct. 26 Take fright and fun to a new level this season at City Museum with unique experiences for all ages every Friday-Sunday beginning September 28 and continuing through Oct. 26. Step into a world of wonder in this one-of-a-kind Halloween festival. Fright at the Museum […]

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One of the most horrific acts of police brutality has now resulted in two DOJ investigations. The first concerned the torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker by six white deputies who referred to themselves as the “Goon Squad” for their willingness to break rules and violate rights. The first investigation involved the incident itself […]

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ALTON - Eight empty box cars and an empty coal car escaped from a switch on upper Piasa Street just before 10 p.m. on September 17, 1924. The driverless cars came careening down Piasa Street on the Chicago & Alton Railroad tracks to Union Depot in downtown Alton. Fred Elsner, traffic cop at 3rd and Piasa, was on duty at the time. He saw the cars racing down the steep incline and frantically waved his signals for all automobiles and pedestrians to clear out of the way. It was due mainly to his efforts that no one was seriously hurt when the train cars sped past the busy corner at Broadway and Piasa. The northbound 10 o’clock Chicago & Alton passenger train was on its way up the same tracks, but a railroad worker who happened to be nearby saw the danger and, fearing that the empty train cars would collide with the passenger train, leaped on one of the front cars and set the brakes. Gradually, the train cars slowed down and stopped near the Union Depot in time to avert a collision.

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COLLINSVILLE – The Illinois Department of Transportation is looking to hire more than 270 seasonal positions to help with snow and ice removal in Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair and Washington counties. Applications for snow removal operators and winter salaried highway maintainers, also known as snowbirds, must be completed online at https://illinois.jobs2web.com by Monday, Sept. 30. Both full-time winter highway maintainers and hourly winter highway maintainers are being hired to help maintain more than 45,000 lane miles statewide during the winter months. The positions are required to promptly respond to emerging weather situations for snow and ice removal and be ready to work in emergency conditions at any time, including nights, weekends and holidays. The starting salary for full-time is $5,814 per month, and hourlies are paid $25 an hour. Applicants must have a valid commercial driver’s license and email

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ST. LOUIS – For the third time in just over a year, the American Red Cross is rapidly mobilizing volunteers and relief supplies to respond as Helene bears down on communities in the Florida Panhandle. The Red Cross has assigned some 360 trained disaster workers, stocked truckloads of supplies and is ready to open dozens of shelters to help people in need. The American Red Cross of Missouri and Arkansas Region is ready to help those impacted. Currently, 18 disaster responders from Missouri and Arkansas are deployed to support those in the path of Hurricane Helene. Five of the disaster responders are from Arkansas and thirteen are from Missouri . This includes two Emergency Response Vehicles (one from Arkansas and one from Missouri). The teams left earlier this week and another team with an ERV leaves from Little Rock today (Thursday). “Time and time again, we have seen our volunteers step up to provide help and hope to those in need during their darkest hour,”

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Foo Fighters have pulled out of the 2024 Soundside Music Festival, set to take place Sept. 28-29 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A statement to the "Everlong" band's Facebook simply reads, "Foo Fighters…

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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch experienced a work force reduction Wednesday, causing the newsroom to lay off six of its employees.

We are not staying at our jobs as long as we used to: The average for all workers in 2024 was 3.9 years. I chose to chart a single age group since older workers have held their jobs longer and therefore changes in age composition over the years can affect the numbers even if there's ...continue reading "Raw data: Job tenure in America"

“This is an example of St. Louis in all of its shining best," Executive Director Karen Lanter said of St. Louis HELP. The nonprofit group accepts donations of home medical equipment and lends it free of charge to those in need or their caregivers.

A rural Southern Illinois man was arrested Wednesday morning for wielding a sword in public, threatening to harm people, and damaging property.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced its November 2024 concert lineup, featuring performances of Mozart's music, a live performance of the score for Disney/Pixar's "Coco," a free Veterans Day brass concert, and a chamber music concert at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

The Business Journal's Executive Network program brings new corporate leaders together with their peers. Meet four of the latest participants.

Together, Let’s Make The Hill a Safer Place The Hill Business Association has rolled out a security patrol on July 29 in partnership with Campbell Security. The patrol occurs throughout … Continued

The storm could rapidly intensify into Category 4 strength as it passes over the steaming-hot Gulf of Mexico, sending a huge surge of water ashore.

ALTON — Belle Street in Alton is fully open again to traffic after a comprehensive water/sewer infrastructure upgrade, a project that saw significant collaboration between the City of Alton and Illinois American Water. The barricades officially came down at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. "Obviously, a lot of work went into it, and it's nice to get that section back opened," said Justin Kleinschmidt, P.E., from Sheppard, Morgan & Schwaab, Inc., who has been an engineer on this Illinois American Water project. "Hopefully, it will serve as another route with all the other road construction projects going on in the area." The project involved significant upgrades to water lines, sewer lines, and storm sewers. Some sections, particularly between 13th and 15th Streets, still require additional pavement work and water line replacement. "We hope to have that section back open in 2-3 weeks, weather dependent," Kleinschmidt added. The initiative was a joint effort between Illinois

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