GRANITE CITY – The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced that repairs on eastbound Interstate 270 between Illinois 3 and Riverview Drive in Missouri will require lane closures starting, weather permitting, at 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19. One lane will remain open. All lanes are expected to reopen by 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. Motorists should expect delays and are encouraged to use alternate routes during this lane closure. Drivers are urged to reduce speed, be alert for changing conditions, obey all construction signage, and refrain from using mobile devices while approaching and traveling through the work zone. For IDOT District 8 updates, follow us on the social media platform X at @IDOTDistrict8 or view area construction details on IDOT’s traveler information map on GettingAroundIllinois.com.
At least 17 states have taken steps to ensure broader access to the COVID-19 vaccine since last month, when the federal government significantly restricted eligibility for the shot. Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin have issued orders that aim […]
A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state legislators recently hatched a plan to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in health care. Four Pennsylvania House Democrats and one House Republican plan to introduce legislation that would require insurers, hospitals and other providers to follow certain rules when using AI for patient care, billing and coding, claims […]
Nate Hayward, the new head of the St. Louis City Justice Center, has outlined his plan to improve the facility by prioritizing staff feedback and reviewing the jail's 'use of force' policy, aiming to replicate the successes he achieved at St. Louis County's jail.
You might recall that one of the conditions of the FCC’s approval of The Ellison family’s $8 billion acquisition of CBS was that the agency would install a “ombudsman” at the network to ensure CBS journalism was appropriately feckless and deferential to our mad, idiot king. This was particularly ironic given decades of whining by […]
Democracy is under strain, and the right question to ask is whether anyone cares enough to make a difference, former Gov. Jay Nixon told a crowd Wednesday afternoon at Westminster College in Fulton. “Do we care enough about the principles of our democracy to preserve it? And what can each of us do to rekindle […]
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has reappointed five members to the St. Louis Police Board, including St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer, restaurant owners Chris Saracino and Eddie McVey, photographer Brad Arteaga, car dealer Don Brown, and former St. Louis City HR chief Sonya Jenkins-Gray, after withdrawing their appointments earlier this month.
ST. LOUIS - A man was was killed early Thursday morning after a shooting in south St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), the shooting happened shortly after 12:50 a.m. in the area of Minnesota Avenue and Osceola Street in the city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood. The man was initially in critical [...]
Additional public education experts are joining discussions on the future of the state’s school funding formula as work groups convene for bi-monthly meetings. Gov. Mike Kehoe created the Missouri School Funding Modernization Task Force in an executive order in January and appointed members from a wide swath of backgrounds, including a leader from the Missouri […]
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