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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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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.

BETHALTO - The Illinois Secretary of State has upgraded its Bethalto DMV to a “One-Stop-Shop” design, improving the customer experience through reduced wait times and increased efficiency. The renovation also includes updated signage to create a more logical flow and help customers know where to go, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced today. The Bethalto DMV, located at 20 Terminal Dr., Ste. 103, East Alton, is among the first to undergo the “One-Stop-Shop” transformation and is now re-opened following extensive renovations to allow customers to access services at one single station. As a part of the Secretary of State’s ongoing modernization efforts, the new DMV experience will save customers considerable time and several steps by offering both vehicle and driver services at a single service counter. “Since taking office, I have made it a top priority to provide exceptional customer service and reduce lines and wait times,” Giannoulias

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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that nonfarm payrolls were up +7,100 while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent in September, based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and released by IDES. The August monthly change in payrolls was revised from the preliminary report, from +800 to +6,700 jobs, while the revised unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, unchanged from the preliminary August unemployment rate. The September payroll jobs estimate, and unemployment rate reflect activity for the week including the 12th. In September, the industry sectors with the largest over-the-month job gains included: Private Education and Health Services (+4,600), Leisure and Hospitality (+3,600), and Government (+2,800). The industry sectors with the largest monthly payroll job declines included: Financial Activities (-3,000), Professional and Business Services (-3,000), and Construction (-1,300).

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The largest electric utility in Kansas and western Missouri will add two natural gas plants by the end of 2030, the company announced Monday. Evergy, which serves 1.6 million customers in the two states, plans to build combined-cycle natural gas plants — each with a 705-megawatt capacity — in two Kansas counties in 2029 and […]

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters said today that Kamala Harris has a clarity problem. Liberal Twitter is aghast: I get it: Trump is famous for long, meandering paragraphs of word salad that are sometimes incomprehensible. But even if Peters is wrong in a technical sense, he's right in every practical sense that matters. Trump ...continue reading "Yes, Kamala Harris really does have a clarity problem"

Police said they followed the sound of screams in the rescue of a 6-year-old girl last week in north St. Louis City.