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St. Louis Community College (STLCC) recently celebrated the Grand Opening of its Emerging Technology Center and Financial Services Education Center on its Meramec Campus. These new buildings are part of the college’s STLCC Transformed initiative.  S. M. Wilson, serving as Construction Manager as Agent for the project, participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The event was […]

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From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: The rate of suicide for construction workers is 5.5 times the rate of all construction fatalities on the job site. How to support those affected by suicide was the topic of a seminar Aug. 21 hosted by Aetna, the Construction Forum and the AFL-CIO’s Missouri Works Initiative’s (MWI) Worker […]

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From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Investments in pre-apprenticeship programs have helped women and people of color become the two fastest growing demographic segments within Illinois’ construction workforce, according to new research by the nonpartisan Illinois Economic Policy Institute (ILEPI) and the Project for Middle Class Renewal (PMCR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. […]

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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore is married to a WashU administrator involved in handling student issues after a pro-Palestine protest on campus

From KMOV: Green Street, 4565 McCree Investors, LLC. has filed a lawsuit against the owner of Bar K, Leib Dodell.  In July, all Bar K locations permanently closed due to a “variety of challenges that ultimately proved too difficult for our start-up business to overcome.” Green Street’s lawsuit, filed a month after Bar K’s closure, accuses Dodell […]

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Wallethub recently published a study that places Missouri as one of the worst states for teenagers to drive in. According to Save MO Lives, car crashes are the No. 1 cause of death for teens in Missouri.

Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace have decided otherwise. In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, these two Republicans are demanding that Wikipedia hand […]

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FRANKLIN COUNTY, IL. — The U.S. District Court in St. Louis on Friday announced that Timothy Brandon Parsons, the former manager of the MC#1 Mine in Franklin County, Illinois, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration in connection with an underground fire that occurred in August 2021. Parsons, 38, of Louisa, Kentucky, admitted to conspiring to conceal the fire that was ignited on Aug. 12, 2021, when a cutting torch was used to cut collapsed steel beams underground. Court documents state that after the fire could not be extinguished within 10 minutes, Parsons and others agreed not to evacuate miners or notify MSHA, despite gas detectors alerting to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. Coal mining continued during informal firefighting efforts over three shifts from Aug. 12 to 13. The next day, Parsons attempted to hide the fire by ordering a mine evacuation under the false claim that a coal belt was broken. MSHA later received

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By: Allie Reed and Erich Hellmer In St. Louis, dangerous speeding is a common occurrence and leading cause of our City’s roads becoming more and more dangerous every year. Trailnet’s 2024 Crash Report analyzed vulnerable road user (VRU) crash data for St. Louis City and St. Louis County (see Figure 1). Looking back at data […]

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The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday the motive behind two deaths earlier this year.

ALTON/WOOD RIVER – Residents of Alton and Wood River have been charged with unlawful weapon possession in separate felony cases. Brennen R. Sykes, 18, of Wood River, was charged Aug. 20, 2025 with one count each of aggravated unlawful possession of weapons (a Class 4 felony) and resisting a peace officer (a Class A misdemeanor). On Aug. 19, 2025, Sykes allegedly carried an EIG .22 caliber revolver on his person which was uncased, loaded, and immediately accessible; he also allegedly had no valid Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card at the time of the offense. He was additionally accused of resisting arrest by fleeing on foot from a police officer. Wood River Police officers responded to “a report of a suspect brandishing a firearm at 11:15 a.m., walking two blocks from East-Alton Wood River High School,” according to the state’s petition to deny Sykes’s pretrial release from custody. Once officers located Sykes, he reportedly fled

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A Missouri judge will decide whether a proposed abortion ban appears on state ballots next year as written, needs revisions or is struck down entirely.

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The Sex Pistols' iconic album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols is the latest album to get a high fidelity audio release.The English punk rockers' only studio album is now part of Rhino High Fidelity’s…

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