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Re-branding isn’t going to save ShotSpotter. While it would prefer to be called “SoundThinking,” its flagship product is still its acoustic detection tech — something the company claims reliably detects gunshots. Whatever the preferred (and trademarked) nomenclature, the claims the company makes are rarely backed up by facts. Even when it works, it still kind […]

A new school year brings new concerns for law enforcement in the war on drugs.

With dozens of people already convicted, the feds say you can expect more criminal charges in connection with a fraud that began at a former chiropractic clinic in Arnold.

It’s been almost two months since the sinkhole in Alton formed, leaving summer camps canceled and sports leagues relocated. Locals are still struggling to process just how lucky everyone was that nobody was on the field at the time of the collapse.

So far the Trump team has proposed: No tax on tips. No tax on Social Security. Extend the 2017 corporate tax cut. Implement a $5,000 Child Tax Credit. This would collectively blow the deficit to hell, raising it by something like $1 trillion per year. Does anyone care? Maybe. It makes me wonder if Kamala ...continue reading "Does anyone care about the deficit?"

“And then the smell; the smell is horrible. Then you've got mosquitoes; you got all these bugs.”

SPRINGFIELD - Today, Governor JB Pritzker signed Executive Order 2024-02 to begin a cross-sector planning process to outline a clear framework for addressing the needs of older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers over the next decade. The Executive Order creates a new strategic position, the Chief Planning Officer, within the Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA). This position will lead the development and implementation of a multi-year Multi-Sector Plan for Aging (MPA). The MPA will serve as a 10-year blueprint to support healthy aging in Illinois communities and set clear, measurable objectives for evaluating public and private sector progress toward this goal. The Chief Planning Officer will deliver the MPA to the Governor and General Assembly by Dec. 31, 2025, and an additional status report by Dec. 31, 2026. “Taking care of our older Illinoisans is a responsibility my administration does not take lightly—which is why this plan will examine every aspect

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One of the individuals charged with property damage to the Ferguson Police Department Friday night is a member of St. Louis’ Police Civilian Oversight Board (COB). He’s also a Democratic National Convention delegate.

Voters will have a lot to decide on this November.

EarthDance uses 14 acres of land to teach and provide healthy foods to surrounding communities.

GLEN CARBON - Tennis courts are getting closer to returning to Glen Carbon as part of the Schon Park Phase 3 improvement project, which is making progress following Village Board approval of two related resolutions on Tuesday. After swapping the Miner Park tennis courts for pickleball courts last month , the Village Board voted to pursue funding a project which will bring tennis courts and much more to Schon Park. Public Works Director Scott Slemer outlined the full scope of the project’s third phase at Tuesday’s Village Board meeting. “Schon Park Phase 3 is expected to include a sports complex including tennis, pickleball, and basketball courts, in addition to connecting paths to the existing parks system per the Parks and Trails Master Plan,” Slemer said. The village is now set to pursue Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grants for Fiscal Year 2025 for the development of the Schon Park Phase 3 project. The grants will reportedly reimburse

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Several weeks ago a handful of big-name news outlets began receiving a trove of documents about J.D. Vance from "Robert," all of which had been hacked from the Trump campaign. So far, though, nobody has published any of it—even though when the same thing happened in 2016 to Hillary Clinton, they eagerly splashed the hacked ...continue reading "Why is everyone keeping mum about that hacked J.D. Vance material?"

Behold the following timeline: November 21, 2023: Twitter, owned by Elon Musk, sues Media Matters for saying mean things about him. Nine months pass . . . August 9, 2024: NPR reports that the judge in the case, Reed O'Connor, holds stock in Tesla, which is also owned by Musk. Today: O'Connor recuses himself from ...continue reading "Musk judge recuses himself . . . but only from one case"

Ferguson community members, law enforcement and pastors gathered Tuesday in front of the police department to pray for the healing of an officer who was injured in a protest Friday.

The weapons sales totals $20 billion when including advanced air-to-air missiles, 120 mm tank ammunition and high explosive mortars, and tactical vehicles, according to a report.

Earthworms' late, dear, zany friend Jay Schober was one hemisphere - with he dearest friend Jim Findlay - of the St. Louis Brain Sandwich, in the early glory DAZE of KDHX. 

Honoring Jay, we serve up again this interview, recorded in January 2021, promoting Jay and Jim's memoir, We Never Got To Be Zombies (yet) - 55 Years of Friendship and Fiddling with Fate.

Jay was a kind, gentle, big-hearted bear-hug BIG guy. Missed and beloved by many who knew him, and MANY more who heard him and Jim carry on, on-air, while snacking on braunschweiger and cheeseballs. Rest in Love and Laughter, Jay.