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Ezra Klein put up an interview yesterday with our real border czar, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. It was interesting. Mayorkas talked about several causes of increased illegal immigration, the prime one being the evolution of highly professionalized smuggling organizations. He also mentioned wars and crime surges in certain Central American countries, which have ...continue reading "Why has illegal immigration gone up and down so much?"

Timothy B. Stokes robbed a St. Louis man, then fatally shot him, before killing a woman and shooting at police.

Gaby Deimeke is a portrait and music photographer based in Austin, Texas. This exhibit is filled with her bold, color-saturated images of music artists include Ed Sheeran, J Balvin, Taylor […]

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Rocker Ted Nugent has responded to reports that Pearl Jam used the riff of his song “Stranglehold” to share an anti-gun message. During Pearl Jam's show in Baltimore Thursday, the band surprised…

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Otters are believed to be the only mammals that can detect scents underwater.

The fox managed to purloin a golfer's ball.

ALTON - The Alton High School Class of 1974 will be sponsoring an exciting weekend for their 50th reunion. From 5–10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, members of the AHS Class of 1974 are invited to come out to Bluff City Grill in Alton for a night with their classmates. The weekend fun includes a mixer on Friday night and a “Sunday on the River” afternoon. “I think people are excited. We had a really big class,” said Linda, one of the reunion’s organizers. “There are a lot of people out there.” Linda and Mark, who run the official AHS Class of 1974 website , said they have just under 1,000 members in their graduating class. They are hoping to contact as many people as they can to bring everyone together for one of the last reunions they will host. Tickets to the reunion on Oct. 12 cost $50 and include a buffet dinner, a free drink and entertainment by Eclectic Celebrations. You must register by Oct. 1 to attend. The

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These photos show a couple of the kitchens included in last year’s tour. Top: Dana and John Yowell, bottom: Keran and Walt Harrington. BUZZ MAGAZINE - Chapter AB of the International PEO Sisterhood will host its annual Kitchen Tour of selected homes from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. This year’s tour will highlight the kitchens of six Carlinville area homes owned by: Shannon and Paul Boente, Stacey and Quinn Steiner, Danielle and Owen Sullivan, Siri Engstrom and Tim Wilson, Julie and Chad Stults, and Brandon and Taylor Little. “After several years of no kitchen tours due to Covid, we brought it back last year and enjoyed the most well attended event as yet,” said Janet Lippold, a member of the Tour committee. “It’s become a popular end-of-summer event, and we’ve had a lot of requests for it this year.” “People take the tour for a variety of reasons,” added committee member Elisabeth Herndon. “Som

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BUZZ MAGAZINE - At the junction of Interstate 55 and IL State Route 40 sits the most amazing shopping venue you could hope for - Kim’s Countryside Marketplace. Formerly known as The Rusty Star, the business was purchased by Kim Bowen and her husband Steve just a few months ago. They took over ownership and changed the business name in May. Kim’s Countryside Marketplace is very similar to what it was as Rusty Star, with 81 individual booths in the sprawling 14,000 square foot building, featuring antiques, vintage, collectibles, primitives, home decor, farmhouse chic, painted and refurbished furniture, boutique clothing and accessories, and so much more. There is literally something for everyone inside Kim’s. Kim has always been an artisan and sold her products for years at area markets. When the couple’s four children were all grown and out on their own, she decided to dive a little deeper and expanded her offerings via booth space in a local craft mall.

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HIGHLAND - In a recent episode of “Our Daily Show!” with CJ Nasello , GRID Solar breaks down a net metering policy change that will affect Ameren Illinois customers. Ryan Wagner, co-owner of GRID Solar, explained that the new policy is “less than advantageous” to customers because it will affect how solar customers “trade” energy with Ameren. Solar systems overproduce electricity in the summer and underproduce in the winter. In the past, Ameren would calculate how much energy was overproduced in the summer and provide this energy back to the customer during the winter. Now, Ameren Illinois will make these calculations every month, meaning winter power bills will likely rise. To prevent this, GRID Solar will begin installing systems with a battery included. The surplus energy produced during the day will now go to the battery, so the battery can power the home during nighttime when no energy is being produced. “If you

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EAST ALTON – The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC?) is encouraging community members to attend an Illinois RiverWatch Mentoring Event this fall and help collect stream-quality data from sites across Illinois. The Illinois RiverWatch Network is hosting a number of these events across the state in September and October, including two in Lewis and Clark Community College’s district. These events are intended to help new RiverWatch volunteers get involved without first attending a training workshop and to help current volunteers get more comfortable with the monitoring methods. “Our mentoring events are a great way for volunteers to participate in stream monitoring for the first time,” said RiverWatch Volunteer Coordinator Hannah Griffis. "Volunteers can learn about stream health and RiverWatch monitoring or spend the day looking for bugs in a creek." Volunteers who participate in the Mentoring Events will collect macroinvertebrates

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Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - St. Louis City police officers are cracking down on illegal guns and drugs. On Friday, District 4 officers were patrolling the Hyde Park neighborhood in north St. Louis when they saw a man acting suspiciously, trying to hide a gun. After investigating, officers discovered the 22-year-old had what they believed were [...]

Francine is weakening and drifting a bit farther to the south so its impacts on our region will decrease over the weekend. Lingering showers will be possible each day, but the focus will be across southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. While the metro could see a few isolated showers, there will be a lot of [...]

Imagine an agricultural chemical so vial, so poisonous, so unsafe to human health that even the pesticide-friendly and herbicide-happy Environmental Protection Agency eventually couldn’t look the other way. That chemical is dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known as DCPA, sold under the brand name Dachtal. The herbicide is widely used on broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and onion […]