BELLEVILLE – A new excavator valued at more than $100,000, stolen from a job site in Belleville, was recovered in working order in a cornfield in St. Clair County on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The recovery was facilitated by the Metro East Auto Theft Task Force, which acted on a tip generated through social media. The Metro East Auto Theft Task Force, which serves Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair Counties, continues to make a significant impact on reducing area crimes. The task force is funded by insurance companies required by Illinois law to contribute to a fund administered by the Secretary of State’s office, through the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council. During the last fiscal year, the task force said it had recovered 649 vehicles, with a total recovery value of $9,970,757. Additionally, 223 arrests were made, and 195 suspects were charged during the same period. The task force's efforts are crucial i
Urban Fort Play, under new ownership, will be located inside a 4,600-square-foot space in City Foundry and is targeting an opening date in early spring 2025.
Missouri's Planned Parenthood affiliates are asking the state administrative hearing commission to block a new law that prohibits the organization from being reimbursed for serving Medicaid patients.
The city of Manchester accepted the resignation of Police Chief Scott Will on Monday, weeks after he was placed on paid leave due to an ongoing investigation.
Will was placed on administrative leave in July as part of an "ongoing independent investigation," but the city has not provided any information on why he was being investigated.
When announcing his placement on leave last month, Manchester communications specialist Darin Wernig only said that the investigation did not concern unauthorized…
This is the shoe fence near Rice, California. It was initially a shoe tree of obscure origin, where travelers would hang pairs of shoes, but the tree burned down in 2003 and was replaced by a "shoe garden." It's a garden only in the loosest sense of the word: a bare patch of ground about ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
A Missouri law declaring some federal gun regulations “invalid” is unconstitutional because it violates the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, a federal appeals court in St. Louis unanimously ruled on Monday.
A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a district court ruling from last year that blocked Missouri from enforcing the Second Amendment Preservation Act, a law passed in 2021 that penalizes police for enforcing certain federal gun laws.
Among the law’s…
Yet another federal judge has blocked a censorial, vindictive government “investigation” into Media Matters for having the temerity to report on seeing ads on ExTwitter showing up next to neo-Nazi content. To recap: in November, Media Matters released an article written by Eric Hananoki. The article detailed an investigation in which they found ads from […]
Yesterday I happened to come across a tweet about how we were all so crushed by work these days that we had no time to cook meals etc. Is this true? Here's some data on how many hours employed people work each day: Over the past two decades, the number of people holding down multiple ...continue reading "Raw data: Hours of work in America"
A Missouri law declaring some federal gun regulations “invalid” is unconstitutional because it violates the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, a federal appeals court in St. Louis unanimously ruled on Monday. A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a district court ruling from last year that blocked Missouri from enforcing the […]
During the first U.S. leg of their M72 tour in 2023, Metallica uploaded a video of fans being offered free passes to the exclusive Snake Pit section of the crowd,…
A western Missouri man appeared in St. Louis Circuit Court on Monday and admitted to gunning down a 14-year-old boy as revenge for his own son's death.
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