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The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department and the municipal forces in Alton, Belleville, Granite City and Madison getting federal funds to upgrade equipment

Investigators with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are asking for the public’s help to find a man who stole a large box trailer belonging to a local painting company.

GODFREY – The annual Freer Auto Body Cookies and Cocoa event, a cherished local tradition, took on added significance this year as area students contributed their efforts to support the Community Christmas campaign. The Cookies and Coca event took place this past Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, and aims to ensure that every child in the region experiences the joy of the holiday season. Kamryn and Vincent Hollinger, children of Bret and Jamie Hollinger, along with Nora, Abigail, and Charlie Murray, children of Tim and Marisa Murray, sold homemade bracelets and raised additional funds through a yard sale to benefit the Cookies and Cocoa initiative. The children came with an abundance of toys to the Cookies and Cocoa event for Community Christmas. Their contributions align with the broader goals of Community Christmas, which supports various agencies during the holiday season. Margaret Freer of Freer Auto Body expressed her admiration for the children’s initiative, stating, “They

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District 1 is investigating a robbery that happened at approximately 12:05 a.m. on December 9.

The post Delivery Driver Robbed in Dutchtown appeared first on St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

A man in Pennsylvania has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, officials said Monday.

Ringo Starr and his All Starr band are returning to the road in 2025 with a string of new tour dates. The latest trek kicks off June 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut,…

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Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s to 1970s is the first major exhibition to examine the complex connections among modern architecture, urban renewal and racial and spatial change […]

The post Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s to 1970s appeared first on Explore St. Louis.

Missouri Democrats will keep three of the party’s four top leaders in place for the next two years despite an election result where the party lost every statewide race and failed to make gains in the General Assembly. Former U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan of St. Louis will stay on as party chair, with Yvonne Reeves-Chong […]

Omnicom Group, the giant advertising firm that owns St. Louis-based FleishmanHillard, said Monday it has agreed to acquire large rival Interpublic Group, whose Weber Shandwick has a St. Louis office.

SPRINGFIELD - The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) is announcing the opening of the application period for our new Fire Station Construction and Rehabilitation Grant Program. The Fire Station Construction and Rehabilitation Grant program provides grants up to $350,000 for the construction or rehabilitation of fire stations with a total of 5 million dollars available to departments across the state. Applications must be electronically submitted or postmarked no later than February 28, 2025. “We continue to see and hear the need of fire departments across Illinois. As the cost of equipment and fire apparatus increase, the need to store these assets in an adequate station that doesn’t leak and is free of any hazards will help to keep the Illinois firefighters safer and help equipment last longer,” said Illinois State Fire Marshal James A. Rivera. “I hope this grant shows that our commitment to helping provide funding to departments across

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SAINT LOUIS - “Christmas Carol: The Remix” tells the classic Charles Dickens story with a hip-hop twist. The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival will be sponsoring the show until Dec. 22, 2024, at the .ZACK Theater in St. Louis. Tom Ridgley with the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival explained that this show is a contemporary retelling of “A Christmas Carol,” refreshed so that the setting and characters have a more modern feel. “It feels like St. Louis in 2024,” Ridgley said. “It’s just brilliant because it’s so fresh and funny but it also is the story of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ which is just so moving and uplifting and never gets old because we’re always hoping that there’s a chance we can start again and do things over.” “Christmas Carol: The Remix” tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts of Hip-Hop Past, Present and Future. Ridgley said it’s “identical”

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On This Day, Dec. 9, 1989 ...Billy Joel began a two-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “We Didn’t Start The Fire” from his 11th studio album, Storm…

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The driver was going too fast for the wet conditions, causing the car to slide off the roadway and overturn in a cornfield, according to MSHP.

EDWARDSVILLE - With a cast of voices, an assortment of sounds and a body in motion, the award-winning, international storyteller and author Bobby Norfolk masterfully weaved a web of tales, folklore and history around his audience on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Lovejoy Library. Norfolk’s performance kicked off the library’s celebration of holiday traditions from around the world during the month of December, according to Simone Williams, Diversity and Engagement librarian and assistant professor. Norfolk started his presentation with his rap rendition of “Three Billy Goats Gruff.” “… He should have learned not to be so greedy,” sang Norfolk, as he snapped and swayed. “He should have learned to help the needy. So, the goats ate grass, and they got fat. Trip trap. Trip trap. That’s that.” “We took a 400-year-old Norwegian folktale and put it into the African American tradition

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Are you curious about how the US did on the latest international TIMSS test of mathematics? Here it is: I had to leave some countries out to make everything fit. All the Asian countries topped the charts, so you can take that as read. I also removed some tiny countries that don't test their entire ...continue reading "Raw data: TIMSS math test results for 2023"

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today issued the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit stayed an injunction a district court entered regarding the Protect Illinois Communities Act. The stay will remain in place while the appeal is pending. “I am pleased the 7th Circuit has stayed the district court’s injunction. My office will continue to prosecute the appeal, and the Protect Illinois Communities Act remains the law of the land as the litigation is pending in the lower courts. The Protect Illinois Communities Act is an important tool to prevent weapons of war from being used in our schools and on our streets, and I am committed to defending its constitutionality.”

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Anita Jackson, Neil Salsich, and other stars will be on hand for sing-along fun during extended museum hours this Thursday.

Nearly 26% of public and charter school students in St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County were chronically absent during the 2023-2024 school year.