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Riverview Gardens School District is seeking a Chief Financial Officer and other staff members to provide leadership and vision in accounting, budgeting, and education to support the financial needs of the district and its students.

GLEN CARBON - As the Glen Carbon Police Department prepares to answer 911 calls for additional local agencies, the Village Board approved purchases of new dispatch center equipment and a new police vehicle on Tuesday night. As part of an ongoing Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) consolidation project, the Glen Carbon Police Department will soon be tasked with answering calls from the Pontoon Beach Police and Fire Departments, as well as the Mitchell and Long Lake Fire Departments. Police Chief Todd Link estimates the consolidation could lead to 6,000 additional 911 calls per year. To prepare for the increased workload, the board approved hiring an additional dispatcher earlier this summer . Two items approved on Tuesday concern new equipment for an additional dispatch desk. Among the equipment approved is a fourth dispatch console from Watson Systems at a cost of $31,390.83 and a fourth radio console for $90,129.75. Link said these would be funded from the village’s

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Residents opposed to the project welcomed the news. But they said it was too late for Arnold city leaders to regain their trust.

EAST ALTON - A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train early Wednesday morning near Silver and Goulding in East Alton. The incident occurred around midnight, and the East Alton Police Department and East Alton Fire Department responded to the scene. A body was discovered in the vicinity, and an Amtrak train was halted nearby. "At this time police are not releasing the male’s identity. It appears to be accidental at this time under investigation," East Alton Police Chief Scott Golike said. The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident is ongoing. Further details have yet to be disclosed by the authorities.

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The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, provided 23+ million low-income households a $30 broadband discount every month. But the roughly 60 million Americans benefiting from the program are now facing much higher broadband bills because key Republicans — who routinely dole out billions of dollars on far dumber fare — refused to fund a $4-$7 billion […]

The former director of the East St. Louis Public Library is facing federal charges after prosecutors said she made more than $10,000 worth of personal transactions using library funds. In an indictment filed Aug. 20, a federal grand jury returned five charges of wire fraud and two charges of theft from federally funded programs against Kenyada T. Harris. According to the indictment, Harris had access to the library's bank account and a credit card as part of her role as director. In the indictment,…

The secretary of state said Gov. Mike Parson’s administration failed to provide justification for the emergency rule required by law.

Dennis Hancock said he tried to hire his step-daughter as his legislative assistant. She started last week, he said, but her new hire paperwork hadn't gone through.

When's the last time you heard someone say, "I'm going to take the Avenue of the Saints to Hannibal"?

Schools are taking extra precautions to keep their athletes safe from the record-tying 102 degree temperatures, following the Missouri State High School Activities Association's strict heat policy and limiting practice time and equipment to protect players from the dangerous heat.

After a dizzying flurry of movement during the summer transfer window, St. Louis enters the homestretch of the season with a remade roster, a newly-potent attack, and reason to believe that better days are ahead.

St. Louis needs to be better in transition—a tall task as the ever-potent LA Galaxy come to town.

The original 'The Facts of Life' cast member discusses the sitcom and her time in St. Louis as the sitcom marks its 45th anniversary.

On July 23, State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick released an audit detailing how a former mayor of Excelsior Estates improperly paid himself more than $37,000 and funneled more than $200,000 to a business he owned. During the course of their work, auditors found that the records for the village of 209 people on the border of […]

Kenyada T. Harris was charged with five counts of wire fraud and two counts of theft from federally funded programs.

For the nation’s chicken farmers, the last nine months have been breathtaking. Poultry producers have been gamed, we might as well say plucked, for decades by chicken companies. Ever since the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow contest, Big Poultry has found ways to increase its profitability at the hands of many individual farmers. In July of […]

61 years ago this week—the Jefferson Bank protests paved the way for the region’s very own civil rights movement. St. Louis Public Radio’s Marissanne Lewis-Thompson reports the demonstrations are the center of the new play “We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jefferson Bank Protest.”