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West Alton Man Killed in Highway 94 Crash

1 year 10 months ago
WEST ALTON - A West Alton man - 59-year-old Donald G. Winter - died in a vehicle crash at 3:25 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, on the Eastbound Missouri Highway 94 West of Dwiggins Road. Winter was driving a 2019 Chevrolet Express vehicle that encountered extensive damage and was headed northbound. The Missouri Highway Patrol summary of the crash said Winter’s vehicle was traveling Eastbound on West Dwiggins Road when the vehicle skidded, traveled off the roadway to the right, returned to the roadway, then to the roadway to the right again and struck an embankment and overturned. Winter was pronounced dead at 4:13 p.m.

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In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies

1 year 10 months ago
PORT AUSTIN, Mich. — Deep in the thumb of Michigan’s mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula, Republican election officials are outcasts in their rural communities. Michigan cities already were familiar with the consequences of election conspiracy theories. In 2020, Republicans flooded Detroit’s ballot counting center looking for fraud. Democratic and Republican election officials faced an onslaught of threats. […]
Matt Vasilogambros

Lessons from Houston’s Katrina response

1 year 10 months ago
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to be talking about the lasting political impact of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. When we talk about the impacts of climate change in the United States, and in particular the racial dimension of those […]
Jake Bittle

Snoo ‘Smart’ Baby Bassinet Sees Key Features Paywalled, Loses Functionality If Bought Used

1 year 10 months ago
For many many years now we’ve noted how internet-connectivity (and greed) have changed the consumer equation sometimes for the worse, resulting in people no longer truly owning the things they buy. Expensive gadgets can become less useful (or bricked completely) in an instant due to an inconveniently timed merger, company closure, greed, or just rank […]
Karl Bode

Q in the Lou barbecue festival canceled

1 year 10 months ago
One of the biggest barbecue events in St. Louis has been canceled, despite the event being scheduled to start in less than two weeks. Q in the Lou was supposed to run from Sept. 6-8. The annual event would have been held at the Gateway Arch National Park. One of the event organizers, Sean Hadley, confirmed the news on Monday. Hadley cited a lack of support for the event, including low VIP ticket sales and trouble finding corporate sponsors, at least in part due to concerns sponsors had regarding…
Jonathan Fong

Overturned tractor trailer on I-55 causes huge delays

1 year 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Traffic was backed up for an extended period after a tractor trailer overturned on Interstate 55 early Tuesday morning. The accident occurred a little after 5:15 a.m. Tuesday morning on northbound I-55 near Carondelet Boulevard in south St. Louis City. One lane remained open as crews tried to clear the scene. This [...]
Nick Gladney