JERSEYVILLE - Jersey Community High School Principal Thomas Leslie is pleased to announce that 18 students from the JCHS Graduating Class of 2025 have been designated as Illinois State Scholars. The following students have been selected based on class rank and SAT scores: Abbigail Benz Jaxon Brunaugh Corah Derrick Dax Goetten Brayden Groves Kate Hudson Ari Leslie Reese Lorton Matthew Maag Maggie Maxeiner Kiley Pickel Caitlyn Poletti Katie Schultz Dinah Slusser Amelia Strebel Isaac Wargo Annabelle Yamnitz Corree Yates JCHS Principal Thomas Leslie states: "We are incredibly proud of our eighteen seniors who were named Illinois State Scholars from the Class of 2025. This is an honor that distinguishes these students among the best of the best in the state of Illinois and beyond. These students are bright, determined, and they make Jersey very proud."
A St. Louis County mother has filed a lawsuit against Banquet Enterprises, Inc. for negligence after her child was affected by an E. coli outbreak that has impacted 94 people, with more than half linked to Rockwood Summit High School.
A new federal rule will require water utilities across the country to pull millions of lead drinking water pipes out of the ground and replace them, at a cost of billions of dollars. States, cities and water utilities agree that the lead pipes need to go to ensure safe water for residents. But they say […]
We’ve documented in detail how the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process has been a pointless mess, resulting in no limits of layoffs and damage to the underlying brands. What was supposed to be a gambit by these companies to dominate streaming TV, wound up being a very expensive act of seppuku by over-compensated executives clearly out of […]
The original deadline was Nov. 19, but officials want to give more time. It applies to Cook, Fulton, Henry, St. Clair, Washington, Will and Winnebago counties.
St. Louis County Police and St. Charles County Police have received a $1.5 million grant to hire licensed professional counselors to work with crisis intervention teams, in order to provide more effective responses to mental health calls and ensure the safety of officers and the community.
A woman who said her daughter got an E. coli infection after eating at a catered event for the Rockwood School District is suing the company that catered the event.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Jennifer Cumbus alleges that her daughter ate at an event catered by Andre's Banquets and Catering on Nov. 8, and started showing symptoms of an E. coli infection two days later. In the days since, Cumbus said her daughter has not been able to keep food down and has lost 7 pounds.
On Monday, the St. Louis…
ST. LOUIS - Rain and storms are gone and our gusty winds are starting to ease. Tuesday will still be mild, sunny skies with highs in the mid 60s. A second cold front arrives late Tuesday, swinging winds to the northwest and opening the door to much colder air. As the front clears the area [...]
The federal government is asking a judge to rule that it has the power to impose staffing requirements on nursing homes that collect billions of federal tax dollars through Medicaid and Medicare. The request was made Friday in the form of a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by the nursing home industry. […]
State Sen. Karla Eslinger passed on seeking a second term in the Missouri Senate this year. Instead, the former educator now leads the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She spoke to St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Kellogg about her goals for the Department.
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