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On one-year anniversary, Democrats decry dismantling of Department of Education

2 months ago
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats and education advocates Wednesday marked one year since the U.S. Department of Education initiated sweeping mass layoffs. Those layoffs set the stage for more unprecedented efforts from President Donald Trump’s administration over the past year to wind down the 46-year-old agency as part of his quest to return education “back […]
Shauneen Miranda

Wood River Man Accused Of Stealing Body Armor During Alton Home Burglary

2 months ago
WOOD RIVER – A residential burglary in Alton reportedly involving stolen body armor has resulted in a felony charge against a Wood River resident. Clayton W. Sitzes, 33, of Wood River, was charged on March 4, 2026 with a Class 1 felony count of residential burglary. Sitzes allegedly knowingly entered a home on Glenwood Avenue in Alton without authority and with the intent to commit a theft on Dec. 31, 2025. A petition to keep Sitzes detained pending trial was filed The Madison County

Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes

2 months ago
Last month we reported on a strange story in two strange parts: first, a coder had his AI agent create an entire smear campaign against a coding repository volunteer because he rejected AI code. Second, an Ars Technica journalist named Benj Edwards used a bunch of quotes made up by ChatGPT in a story about […]
Karl Bode

Illinois offers $15K down payment aid to first-time buyers

2 months ago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker launched IHDAccess Home on Wednesday. It’s a new statewide program offering up to $15,000 to help first-time homebuyers cover down payments and closing costs. The initiative expands the Illinois Housing Development Authority’s mortgage options.
Kimberly Young

A New Project for Spring from Pretty Together

2 months ago
ST. LOUIS – Liz Sloan and Jennifer Richmond of Pretty Together are a back in our studio with a fresh new project for Spring. Botanical casting is a technique for creating detailed, lasting art by pressing real plants, flowers, and foliage into wet clay to form a mold. This mold is then filled with plaster [...]
Varkita Quinn

Leavenworth officials approve permit for CoreCivic to reopen prison after ‘agonizing’ yearlong fight

2 months ago
LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic will reopen its private prison in Leavenworth to house immigration detainees after city commissioners approved the company’s special use permit on Tuesday, the result of a process one commissioner called “agonizing.” Two people were arrested and multiple people were ejected as they shouted profanity during an hour of public comments and 30 […]
Morgan Chilson

A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans’ Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught

2 months ago
From the very beginning of the DOGE saga, many of us raised alarms about what would happen when a bunch of inexperienced twenty-somethings were handed unfettered access to the most sensitive databases in the federal government with essentially zero oversight and zero adherence to the security protocols that exist for very good reasons. We wrote […]
Mike Masnick

Missouri House passes bill limiting judges’ power to rewrite ballot summaries

2 months ago
A bill to protect ballot summaries written by politicians from judicial revision passed the Missouri House on Wednesday, as lawmakers moved to restore a law struck down earlier this year by the state Supreme Court. The legislation would give the secretary of state three chances to revise ballot summaries found to be insufficient or unfair […]
Rudi Keller