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GRANITE CITY – Two women from Granite City accused of recklessly firing weapons face felony charges in unrelated cases. Shenelle R. Johnson, 43, of Granite City, was charged on Sept. 2, 2025 with a Class X felony count of aggravated battery with a firearm and a Class 3 felony count of felon in possession of a weapon. Johnson allegedly discharged a firearm without legal justification, striking the victim in the shoulder and causing injury on Aug. 29, 2025. According to charging documents, her possession of the “silver handgun” used in the reported battery was unlawful given her previous felony conviction of reckless discharge of a firearm in a prior Madison County case from 2023. The state’s petition to deny Johnson’s pretrial release from custody states the victim reported seeing Johnson “circling the neighborhood” before parking near the victim’s residence. The situation escalated after the victim approached Johnson. “Victim

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ST. LOUIS - Boeing union members rejected a new contract offer from the company Friday morning, extending a month-long strike that involves St. Louis-area workers. More than 3,200 Boeing defense workers remain on strike across the St. Louis region. The strike began on Aug. 4 when union members with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizens, the Trump administration confirmed. The data sharing comes after Justice Department attorneys this summer demanded that election officials in nearly two dozen states turn over their voter lists, alarming some Democratic state secretaries […]

ALTON — Marquette Catholic High School will face East Alton-Wood River High School in a football game at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at Alton Public School Stadium, 1513 State Street, Alton. The game has been moved from its originally scheduled time of 11 a.m. on Saturday. Marquette Catholic Athletic Director Brian Hoener said the Saturday contest time change was made because of the extremely high temperatures predicted during the day for Sept. 13. The National Weather Service predicts a high temperature of 98 degrees on Saturday. The heat index is projected to be as high as 101 degrees, the National Weather Service said on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Marquette Catholic is 1-1 overall going into the contest and East Alton-Wood River is 0-2. Jhrodyn Croft is leading the Explorers with an average of 63 rushing yards per game and Kalin McGee, a running back, has four touchdowns so far. He has also rushed for 84 yards total to lead the team. Don'tay Longstreet and Jack Beaber ar

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GRAFTON - Pere Marquette Lodge invites the community to come out to their upcoming Halloween-themed programs. At 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 3, 2025, the lodge will host a Halloween Murder Mystery Dinner Party. This will be followed by the Halloween Paddle Battle pickleball tournament at 5 p.m. on Oct. 4 at Lions Club Park in Jerseyville. The Halloween fun wraps up with the Sippin’ with Spirits Halloween party at 6 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the lodge. “We throw an event out there just to see how it does, and we end up selling it out,” shared Arielle Niemeyer. “I get to meet some amazing people on the way. I have a great job. I’m very lucky.” The dinner party costs $60 to attend, which includes the show, tax, gratuity and dinner. There are ten seats left, and they’re going quickly. Niemeyer noted that Pere Marquette hosts multiple murder mystery dinner parties every year, and they’re always a lot of fun. “It’s a great deal,”

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ST. LOUIS - John Kelly, the longtime voice of St. Louis Blues TV broadcasts, is heading west to take on play-by-play duties with the Los Angeles Kings next season. The Blues announced in July that Kelly would not return to Bally Sports Midwest for the 2025-26 season, ending his nearly 20-year run as the team's [...]

COLLINSVILLE — Alexis Haynes, a student at Collinsville High School, was awarded her Apprenticeship Certificate at the City Council meeting this week, recognizing her year-long work as a housekeeper at the Gateway Convention Center. The certificate was presented by State Senator Erica Harriss, State Representative Katie Stuart, Collinsville High School teacher Cathy Kulupka, and other officials. Haynes is one of eight students with disabilities to earn the credential through the City of Collinsville Apprenticeship Program since it began in 2021. The program, a collaboration between the City of Collinsville, Madison County Employment & Training Department, Collinsville Community Unit School District #10, the Regional Office of Education, and the U.S. Department of Labor, aims to provide students with disabilities with hands-on experience and training tailored to their abilities and career interests. According to program officials, the apprenticeship offers participants the opportunity

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WENTZVILLE, Mo. - Stefanina's in Wentzville has been in business for over 25 years—serving customers and becoming a staple in the community for its homemade dishes. But the mom-and-pop business has recently come across a peculiar problem—something even full-time manager Eva Gannon wouldn’t have expected. It involves Google AI displaying items on the menu, as [...]

MARYVILLE/SAINT LOUIS - Community members are invited to support a local nonprofit that provides education, healthcare and housing to children in Zambia. African Vision of Hope, based in Maryville, will host their 25th anniversary gala on Sept. 25, 2025, in St. Louis with special guests Dennis and Laura Quaid. Judi Bertels, who started African Vision of Hope with her husband 26 years ago, shared that the gala aims to raise $200,000 to build more classrooms while finding 40 new monthly donors to support Zambian students’ higher education. “We’re about four things: a Christ-centered education, rescuing children, allowing them to grow up healthy and safe, and also just giving them some critical life skills,” Bertels said. “What I love about working with these children and adults is, they don’t have any expectations. Everything they get is a gift, and every gift they get, they multiply.” Two decades ago, Bertels volunteered to house

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By noon, union spokesman DeLane Adams said that members had rejected it.

Smashing Pumpkins are taking off with the release of a song called "Chrome Jets."The track was originally recorded during the sessions for their 2024 album, Aghori Mhori Mei, and is billed…

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This news — you know, the stuff that shows National Guard troops aren’t exactly happy to be expendable pieces in Trump revenge schemes — is unsurprising. No one signed up for this, but Donald Trump and a bunch of suck-ups scattered across a handful of red states have made Trump’s War on DC the new […]