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Illinois State Police say one person was killed in a Centralia shooting Sunday evening.

The shooting was reported around 5 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Kell Street in Centralia, which is about 70 miles east of St. Louis.

EDWARDSVILLE - The flute students of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) have been invited to perform this summer at the National Flute Association Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon, an opportunity that organizers say comes with high travel-related costs and has prompted a call for donations to help students attend. The SIUE flute choir plans to present “a unique and exciting program featuring music written exclusively for low flutes,” according to information provided

Guns N' Roses performed the live debut of their cover of The Runaways song "Black Leather" during a show in Brazil over the weekend.The rendition, which featured bassist Duff McKagan on…

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Robots are being spotted at City Museum just in time for the VEX Robotics World Championship being held April 21-30 at the America's Center convention complex in St. Louis. These […]

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Now open at the World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries, Charles Houska: Master of Play is a retrospective of the St. Louis artist’s work over his impressive 25-plus-year career, […]

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Newly announced Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Billy Idol made a surprise appearance during weekend two of the Coachella festival in Indio, California.The rocker and his longtime guitarist…

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Delivered in the City Hall Rotunda on April 17, 2026

HIGHLAND - Several students from St. Paul Catholic School in Highland were recognized by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for their writing. Suzanne Horan, a middle school English teacher at the school, worked with her fifth and sixth grade students to submit work to the Annual Poster, Poetry, and Prose Contest through the Illinois EPA. Students were encouraged to write about the theme “Together for Healthier Air!” and share poems and prose about how they can reduce

On This Day, April 20, 1992…Queen hosted the star-studded Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness at Wembley Stadium in London.Also known as A Concert for Life, the event was a…

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A ten-minute walk past trees and birds can lower stress more reliably than many people expect. It does not fix every problem, but it changes how the body feels—breathing slows, shoulders drop, thoughts get less noisy. That reaction is a clue: humans don’t just like nature. We often need it. Nature matters because it shapes our health, our culture, and our sense of meaning. Even in a world of screens and cities, people keep reaching for parks, gardens, beaches, hiking trails,

A single oil-soaked river helped spark a global holiday. In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire—again. The image of flames on water was so shocking that it became a symbol of how badly pollution had been ignored. People were already worried about smog, pesticides, and toxic waste, but this made the problem feel impossible to shrug off. Within a year, that growing frustration would be channeled into something new: Earth Day. Why Earth Day wasn’t “just a holiday”

Lest We Forget is a large-scale public art installation by UNESCO Artist for Peace Luigi Toscano, featuring larger-than-life photographic portraits of Holocaust survivors as they are today. Installed in open […]

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The geometric and glowing art of HYBYCOZO is coming to St. Louis this spring and summer, on display for daytime visitors of the Missouri Botanical Garden and during special illuminated […]

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The National Museum of Transportation is proud to announce a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of historic Route 66. Titled “Roads, River, Rooms, and Reels,” the exhibit will open […]

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY - St. Louis County Police detectives are investigating a triple shooting that left an adult man dead and two adult women injured Sunday evening in a parking lot in the 10900 block of New Halls Ferry Road in Ferguson, Mo., authorities said. Officers from the Ferguson Police Department responded at about 6:26 p.m. April 19, 2026, to a call for service reporting a shooting in the parking lot, police said. When officers arrived, they found three victims with apparent gunshot injuries