Missouri lawmakers took a step toward improving conditions in some Missouri prisons last year by setting aside millions to install air conditioning in one of the state’s 17 prisons. That cooler air is still a year and a half away. That decision came as global temperatures broke summertime heat records. Prisoner rights advocates celebrated the […]
September 13th has witnessed some of the most significant events in human history, spanning continents and centuries. 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall On September 13, 1989, the world watched in awe as the Berlin Wall, which had divided East and West Berlin since 1961, began to crumble. Although the official fall is often celebrated on November 9th, it was in mid-September that significant cracks began to appear. Demonstrations had been escalating, and the East German government was under intense pressure. The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era of freedom and unity in Europe. People from both sides of the wall celebrated together, marking the event as a powerful moment of reconciliation and hope. 2001: The Tragic Attack on the Pentagon On a more somber note, September 13, 2001, was a day of mourning and reflection as the world grappled with the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. In particular, the attack on the Pentago
Elvis Costello is revisiting his 1986 album, King Of America, by doing a super deep dive, not just into that album, but all the albums he made in the U.S.…
As the pregnant woman's contractions rolled in every two minutes, staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dispatched an ambulance to send her elsewhere.
Missouri’s campaign to legalize abortion has more than doubled its fundraising totals since it was approved for the ballot in mid-August, despite — and perhaps fueled by — a lawsuit that threatened to knock it off the Nov. 5 ballot. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the coalition behind what will appear on the ballot as Amendment […]
Oktoberfest returns to Grant’s Farm this September, celebrating the attraction’s German heritage. Included with free general admission, the event will feature cold beer served in commemorative steins, alongside traditional German […]
BUZZ MAGAZINE - It was April 9, 2004. The United States Army 724th Transportation Unit of Bartonville, Ill. was in Iraq. Their mission: to escort fuel convoys to Baghdad and the Anbar province in Western Iraq. During their tour they experienced many fire fights, IEDs, land mines and more. But nothing compared to the attack on their convoy on April 9. After a failed email, the unit drove their support convoy directly into an ongoing offensive between the 3rd Cavalry Armored Division of the U.S. Army and Shiite militiamen of the Mahdi Army. Enemy fighters were estimated to be in the numbers of three to four hundred. The 724th convoy consisted of eighteen American civilian driven fuel trucks with only eight armed support vehicles. Dustin Row from Columbia, Ill. was driving one of those military support vehicles. “We were completely picked apart and destroyed,” Row said. “My 50-caliber gun truck was one out of six trucks to even make it through the three mile
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - A man was left dead after being ejected from his vehicle in Cedar Hill Thursday evening. The single vehicle accident occurred a little before 6:30 p.m. on eastbound Missouri Route 30 at Local Hillsboro Road, involving a Chevrolet 1500. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol's (MSHP) crash report, the driver, [...]
The cities of O’Fallon and St. Charles in Missouri are coming together to build and operate law enforcement training center.
Construction of a new $24 million law enforcement training center is already underway in O'Fallon.
“What I like about it is this was designed by police officers, for police officers, the elected officials, had nothing to do with it,” O’Fallon Mayor Bill Hennessy said.
O'Fallon Police Chief Frank Mininni said it's not just for their officers. Thursday, they signed…
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