EDWARDSVILLE - Incoming sophomore Jake Brinker delivered a freshman standout season for the Edwardsville High School boys tennis team this past spring, winning the individual sectional championship and turning in a strong performance at the state tournament. Brinker's head boys tennis coach says the future is incredibly bright for this young tennis phenom. Brinker is a Spencer Homes Male Athlete of the Month for the Tigers. Head boys tennis coach Dave Lipe said Brinker played No. 1 singles
Joe Buck, a longtime sports broadcaster with deep St. Louis roots, has had quite a milestone year. He will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer, while he and his family are also preparing for a move to Denver, Colorado.
If a sidewalk can fry an egg, the air is already far past “a little warm.” That familiar phrase sounds funny, but it points to a real idea: when heat becomes intense enough to affect ordinary objects in strange ways, people reach for vivid comparisons to describe it. “Hot enough to fry an egg” is one of the most common heat sayings in English. People use it to describe extreme heat, especially when pavement, car hoods, or metal surfaces feel scorching to the touch. The
On July 16, the event with the widest global impact is the first successful test of an atomic bomb in 1945. Early that morning in the New Mexico desert, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. At the time, it was the result of a massive wartime science and engineering effort aimed at ending World War II before Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan could gain the same power. It mattered immediately because it introduced a new kind of weapon unlike anything
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t appear to secure the support needed to take over the public health agency during a lengthy and often tense confirmation hearing Wednesday. While Dr. Erica Schwartz told lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Committee that oversees health policy she would […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to resume traffic stops Wednesday, reversing a one-day pause on the policy after officers killed two immigrants who were in their vehicles in Texas and Maine. In a post to social media, Trump called the practice of federal immigration officers conducting enforcement during traffic […]
Missouri officials investigated 43 confirmed or probable cases of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic intestinal illness linked to over 1,600 cases nationwide.
Not long after twelve states sued Paramount claiming its $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers would harm market competition, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) filed their own lawsuit, warning that the massive debt load from the media industry’s latest megamerger will result in an ocean of layoffs for an already reeling U.S. entertainment industry. […]
Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]
SSM will seek approval for the bond at a public hearing July 22 in front of a state authority empowered to issue tax-exempt bonds on behalf of Missouri’s hospitals and schools.
After taking over control of local bus drivers' union, international wants money back from former officers, including former state House candidate Catina Howard
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