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A spokeswoman for Mayor Cara Spencer offered few specifics on the plans for the 99-year-old Cass Bank & Trust building. But she said more information would be forthcoming.

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. — Officials issued a shelter-in-place order Wednesday morning, Aug. 12, 2026, after a fire involving hazardous material broke out in the area of Sauget, Cahokia Heights and East St. Louis, according to the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency. The agency said the fire occurred south of Missouri Avenue between South 50th and South 19th streets. An Everbridge notification was sent to phones in the affected area. Residents and people in businesses within

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - All schools in the East St. Louis School District #189 will be closed Wednesday morning as officials respond to a hazardous fire in the Metro East. The closure comes after a chemical fire broke out in the Metro East, impacting areas of Sauget, Cahokia Heights and East St. Louis. According [...]

Out-of-state 'landlord' tried to turn renter into buyer, and then evict her when she fell behind. She's fighting back.

Kennedy Reed, 26, grew up in Mississippi, and her passion for biomedicine had taken her to St. Louis.

House Rep. Dirk Deaton, R-Seneca, is term limited

On May 14, Kansas City was told in no uncertain terms by its own consultants that its practice of racial and sex-based preferences in city contracting faced serious legal problems. The Council chose not to end the program. There was no coverage of the report in local media until my column in The Kansas City Star […]

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - A shelter-in-place order was lifted Wednesday morning after officials responded to a fire involving hazardous material in the Metro East, impacting areas of Sauget, Cahokia Heights and East St. Louis. The shelter-in-place order was lifted at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning as conditions continued to improve, St. Clair County Emergency Management [...]

ST. LOUIS - While the focus is the dangerous heat, we are monitoring a complex of storms near Omaha early Wednesday morning, along a boundary that is attempting to sink south into the region. This boundary has a hard time punching into St. Louis completely, but this complex of storms is expected to fade as [...]

Exposure to a highly toxic weedkiller called paraquat is tied to a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. Lawmakers in Missouri and other Midwestern states have tried to pass measures banning paraquat. But as the Midwest Newsroom’s Luke Nozicka reports, their efforts have stalled this year.

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Headlines from the Aug. 12, 1926, front page include: Showers bring 12-degree drop in temperature

Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year.

More than 88 percent of the taxes on wind and solar went to just 10 of the state’s 93 counties.

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