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Alton High School Marching 100 Drumline Drums Up Excitement for New Uniforms, Homecoming, Halloween Parade

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ALTON - Alton High School’s Marching 100 drumline traveled around town to drum up excitement for Homecoming Week. The drumline stopped at Board of Education members’ houses, Beverly Farms, Brown Bag Bistro and several other locations in the community on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. Chuck Willard, the director of the Marching 100, shared that the band hopes to raise money to purchase new band uniforms. “We are going around town spreading the word about our band program, hoping to fundraise for our new uniforms,” Willard said. “I love it. I’ve been wanting to do this since I was very little, so I love this.” The drumline performed throughout the day on Oct. 24, but the entire Marching 100 will be on hand during the homecoming football game on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. They will also be marching in the 107th Alton Halloween Parade on Oct. 31, 2024, where they will be performing “Thriller” by Michael Jackson. Willard said that

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Patrenia Butler-Turner's Family Finally Sees Justice After Ten Years

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EDWARDSVILLE — The jury deliberated about three hours Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, before finding Roger Dale Sutton, 57, guilty of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death. The jury found that he fatally beat and strangled Patrenia “Trina” Butler-Turner, who was 40 and had been a resident of East St. Louis. Butler-Turner was reported missing by her family in January 2013, after she failed to return from a trip to the store. The murder came to light in December 2022, when Sutton's nephew Nathan Beyer walked into the Pontoon Beach Police Department and made a report: He had witnessed his uncle kill a woman nearly 10 years earlier and helped dispose of the body. The Beyer led investigators to a wooded location in Pontoon Beach, behind Sutton’s former apartment. There, amid dense brush and debris, investigators discovered a skull and other skeletal remains. The Beyer testified at trial about how he began feeling guilt after seeing

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Federal government, Missouri AG’s office argue over future of student loan forgiveness

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The fate of a partially enacted federal plan to forgive student loans and lower monthly payments is in the hands of a panel of three GOP-appointed judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys from the federal government and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office made their arguments Thursday afternoon before Judges Raymond Gruender, Ralph […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Prosecutors must drop case against Indian Time journalist

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

New York, Oct. 24, 2024 — Isaac White, a journalist for Indian Time in northern New York, was arrested in May while covering a demonstration opposing a proposed settlement of a land claim by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe involving New York’s Barnhart Island.

He’s not accused of doing anything illegal besides failing to disperse when police broke up the protest. Here’s the problem: The U.S. Department of Justice has repeatedly said — most recently this month — that under the First Amendment, police dispersing protesters can’t also disperse journalists covering the protests, because how police respond to protests is news. 

Over 20 national and local press freedom and civil liberties organizations signed a letter led by Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) calling on St. Lawrence County District Attorney Gary Pasqua to drop all charges against White. 

The following statement can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at FPF: 

“Arresting journalists for reporting on protests has always been a constitutional nonstarter. But with the DOJ, courts, and legislatures all recognizing the rights of journalists (and others) to document how police respond to protests, there’s no excuse to continue prosecuting White for doing his job. Authorities in St. Lawrence County need to drop the case against White, and police and prosecutors nationwide need to better educate themselves about the First Amendment so this doesn’t keep happening.”

You can read the letter here or below.

Please contact us if you would like further comment.

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Transportation Policy Gets Left Behind in Presidential Race

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From Bloomberg CityLab:  In 2019, two Kentucky regions applied for federal transportation grants. The first, Taylor County, wanted to build a new four-lane highway bypass through a rural area of the state. The second, the city of Louisville, hoped to add bike lanes, bus stops and large, vegetated sidewalks to existing thoroughfares — while cutting […]
Dede Hance

Anheuser-Busch InBev Investing $8M at Soulard Campus

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From St. Louis Business Journal:  Anheuser-Busch said Tuesday it plans to invest $8 million at its flagship brewery in south St. Louis, adding to more than $165 million invested there since 2019. A spokesperson said the $8 million investment will be used for capital infrastructure projects that involve “equipment and additional improvements that will enhance […]
Dede Hance