A woman was convicted earlier this month after pleading guilty to abandoning the corpse of her infant daughter in a wooded area of East Kansas City nearly three years ago.
OTTAWA, Ill. — Officials say two people were hospitalized on Tuesday morning after an explosion and fire at a manufacturing facility in Ottawa. According to officials from the Ottawa Fire Department, the incident unfolded around 8 a.m. at a Coogee Chemical manufacturing facility, located in the 1500 block of Titanium Drive. Officials from Coogee said [...]
Last fall, an Alabama police officer decided he wasn’t going to allow a 62-year-old woman to exercise her First Amendment rights — not if she was going to do so from inside an inflatable penis costume. Yes, these are sentences we actually have to write here at Techdirt — things that seem so implausible you’d […]
ZZ Top will be spending some more time on the road this year. The Texas rockers have extended their The Big One! tour with seven more weeks of shows.The latest…
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress appeared to be on the same page Tuesday about how to fund immigration activities for the next three years as they released a party-line measure that will pave the way for a special process known as budget reconciliation. But they weren’t unified about another problem — when to clear […]
Voting rights groups launched a legal challenge Tuesday against the Trump administration’s effort to sweep up sensitive data on millions of Americans with the aim of identifying noncitizen voters, arguing that the U.S. Department of Justice is building a dangerous centralized national voter list ahead of the midterm elections in November. The federal lawsuit, filed in […]
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COLLINSVILLE – On Wednesday, April 15, 2026, Collinsville High School social studies students were honored with an opportunity to meet Tony Foulds and hear his personal story of lifelong gratitude for a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) air crew that spared his life during World War II. Foulds, 90, was visiting St. Louis this week from England. The journey involved his first airplane flight and his first time in the U.S. His trip is the culmination of 82 years of gratitude and paying
ALTON - Community members can check out local resources and speak with expert panelists at an upcoming Mental Health Awareness Educational Workshop. From 3–5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at Alton Square Mall outside of Hayner Library, community resources will gather to share information about their work. Attendees can learn about local mental health and crisis services and join an interactive Q&A discussion with three mental health professionals. “One of the most important
A child is unlikely to survive after suffering fentanyl and methamphetamine intoxication over the weekend. The child’s mother appeared in court Tuesday morning for negligence.
ALTON — Alton High School freshman Leah Hubbard has opened the 2026 track and field season with a series of personal-best performances, including an athlete-of-the-meet honor at the Granite City Freshman-Sophomore Invite. Hubbard was named the Granite City Freshman-Sophomore Invite Top Track Athlete after winning the 100 meters in 13.04 seconds, a personal best. She also placed second in the 200 meters (27.09) and second in the 400 meters (1:00.70) at the meet. Leah is an Auto Butler Female
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