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ALTON - If you don't watch closely, our newest Remarkable Redbird could run right by. Junior Hank McClaine has been running for the Alton School District since the sixth grade. Hank has been a headliner for the Redbird cross-country and track team. He was the winner of the Alton Invitational Cross Country meet earlier this year, which had about 40 runners. Hank is the Art Farhner-Edward Jones Remarkable Redbird of the Month. Hank is a runner that likes to start fast and with about a half mile to go, he likes to have someone push him along for the rest of each race, which seems to be working, as Hank has placed in the top three in all starts through the Alton Invitational. During the spring track season, you can also expect to see Hank at or near the top of the runners in both the 800-meter and 1,600-meter runs. Hank will be looking to better his time in the 1600 meter (the mile) of 4.39. Hank has mentioned that he would like to continue running at the college level and gives a lot

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EDWARDSVILLE - Thelma Watershed Wair, one of the historical Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957 amidst an angry mob of white separationist and who later graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has died. She was 83. Wair’s sister, Grace Davis, confirmed to The Associated Press that Wair died Saturday at a hospital in Little Rock from complications of multiple sclerosis. Wair’s history-making story began in 1957 with the other eight students: Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts and Jefferson Thomas. The students integrated Little Rock Central High School three years after the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 declared in the Brown vs. Board of Education case, that segregated classrooms were unconstitutional. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus deployed the National Guard for three weeks to prevent the Little Rock Nine from enrolling in the

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There are some things in life that you just don’t understand until you experience them. That was my realization this weekend, on all fours under the hot sun, with a goat on my back chewing my ponytail. Yes, I’m talking about goat yoga! Turns out goat yoga is the greatest of all time — the G.O.A.T.! For those of you who are reading this and thinking it must be a typo, let me explain. Goat yoga has gained popularity in the last few years. It is literally what it sounds like: yoga with goats. You might be thinking, “How do they stop the goats from climbing on you?” And the answer is, they don’t! The goats climb all over. One might also wonder, “Don’t the goats kind of stink and use the bathroom all over the place?” And the answer is, yes, that also happens! It’s part of the magic. On Saturday, I conned my mother into joining me for a goat yoga session at the Alton Farmers Market. As we approached the goats, we were

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The community at Fort Leonard Wood is asking for the public's help in searching for a soldier that has been reported missing.

WOOD RIVER - All the kids in Wood River are invited to a downtown trick-or-treat event. From 6–8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, kids and families can enjoy the sixth annual downtown trick-or-treat on Ferguson Avenue in Wood River. Kristen Burns, executive director of Wood River Main Street, said that everyone in the downtown business community is encouraged to decorate, dress up, hand out candy and have a fun evening. “It really is a community event,” Burns said. “We’re really excited. We get such good participation through the entire district.” Burns said the participating downtown businesses pass out candy to kids. She promises you can collect “bags and bags of candy” if you manage to visit every business on the street. Rachel & Co. Coffee House will be selling specialty drinks as well as handing out candy. There will also be Halloween movies playing on a big screen overlooking the street, courtesy of Wood River Main

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The cases could be refiled in Missouri.

EDWARDSVILLE - Kids at Riverbend Head Start and Family Services will stay warm this winter thanks to a coat donation by the Edwardsville Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus donated six boxes of coats to the Edwardsville Riverbend Head Start on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. The coats will be given to kids who do not have winter clothing so they can play outside and stay warm as temperatures drop. “We are totally a charitable organization,” explained Chuck Burcham with the Knights of Columbus. “We were founded on charity. We’ve been that way ever since.” Burcham, Steve Edwards, Paul Pizzini and David Green, all members of the Knights of Columbus, delivered the donation to Riverbend Head Start. They explained that 350 Edwardsville K of C members collected the funds needed to purchase the coats. The “Coats for Kids” initiative is a mainstay for Knights of Columbus organizations across the country. Green said that the local K of C chapter

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Following the recent discovery of Sandy Flesh disease in walleye caught in Bull Shoals Lake in Arkansas, the Missouri Department of Conservation is warning fishermen in the Show Me State who frequent waterways near the state border to be on the lookout.

The CEO of Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. will shift to the role of vice chairman, with the firm’s current president to become its new chief executive.

Leisure, 78, was found guilty in 1987 of the 1980 car-bombing of alleged mobster Jimmy Michaels Sr., arguably the most infamous mob hit in St. Louis history.

Ahead of the release of his memoir Brothers on Tuesday, Alex Van Halen has released the full version of “Unfinished,” a previously unreleased track that was the last song he wrote with his…

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The man is suspected of stealing at least 28 checks from six church mailboxes.

Police said Jeremiah Woods left a gun within reach of the child in a Normandy living room.

EDWARDSVILLE - The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department is preparing for its 35th anniversary celebration. This anniversary is not just a celebration but a chance to reflect on the department’s achievements since its inception in 1989. The event will be held in the Enterprise Holdings Foundation Atrium in the Engineering Building on Oct. 24, 2024 from 5 to 8 p.m. Chris Gordon, PhD, Associate Dean in the School of Engineering at SIUE stated, “This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the strides that the Mechanical and Mechatronics Department has made over the years. In 35 years, the department has become one of the largest in the School of Engineering, and both faculty and students have been nationally recognized for their contributions.” With more than 2,000 alumni, this department has helped foster learning for generations of innovative problem solvers. Gordon remarked, “Through this event, we celebrate

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ALTON - Join Senior Services Plus (SSP) in fundraising for United Way of Greater St. Louis by participating in a 50/50 raffle! Participants can win 50% of the total ticket sales, and the other half will benefit United Way. The winner will be drawn on Halloween, Oct. 31, 2024 and announced live on Facebook. The winner does not need to be present to win, Senior Services Plus will be in contact with the winner following the drawing. Raffle tickets are available for purchase online at SSP United Way Fundraisers (seniorservicesplus.org) or visit the front desk at Senior Services Plus. Tickets are $5 each and will be on sale through October 30th, 2024. Individuals must be 18 years or older to play. SSP is an aging services leader in the community and region and a United Way Safety Net Agency. For more information, please reach out to Sydney Peckham at speckham@seniorservicesplus.org or call 618-465-3298 ext. 116. Tickets can be purchased online at SSP United Way Fundraisers ( seniorservicesplus.org

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U.S. lawmakers have spent months focused on speculative risks that China will use TikTok to surveil and propagandize Americans. They’re so concerned that they passed legislation to ban the platform, ignoring the Pentagon Papers case’s clear instruction that vague national security fearmongering is not sufficient to justify censorship.

But while our government was distracted by panic over young people reading about wars it finances on TikTok, The Wall Street Journal reported on a “catastrophic” actual security breach known as Salt Typhoon. The hack, which seems to have taken the lawmakers supposedly protecting us from China by surprise, may have given the Chinese government monthslong access to U.S. wiretapping systems used by internet service providers.

On Global Encryption Day, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Senior Advisor Caitlin Vogus wrote for Tech Policy Press that Salt Typhoon should refocus Congress’s energy on serious measures to combat cyberattacks — like strengthening end-to-end encryption, as opposed to unconstitutional stunts like the TikTok ban.

Salt Typhoon should be a wake up call for Congress: Rather than pushing to expand the openings that adversaries can exploit — for example by requiring backdoors be added into end-to-end encrypted messaging services — lawmakers should start looking for ways to close or narrow them.

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Perhaps if senators and representatives were less worried about grandstanding and more worried about confronting the actual national security threats that China poses to our country, they would have taken a serious look at the backdoors that are threatening Americans’ private data, rather than wasting time on a TikTok ban.

Read Vogus’s article here.