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ALTON - Alton Community Service League (ACSL) and the Loyal Order of the Moose have a coveted Valentine's Day Wine-Tasting event planned from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, at the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge #1349, 730 Wesley Drive in Wood River. Tickets are $20 and can be obtained by contacting the Moose or Cathy Droste at (618) 971-9191 or Cora Miller at (618) 444-7011. It is important to note that tickets for the wine-tasting will not be sold at the door. Wine selections will be top-notch and handled by Republic National Distribution Company of Illinois. There will be a raffle of a Valentine's Day gift basket and a 50-50 drawing included in the night's activities. Proceeds from the event will benefit Alton/Godfrey area charities through the ACSL grant program. ACSL donates 40 percent of funds raised to beautification and landscaping projects in the area and 60 percent to projects that benefit the community in many ways, including food banks and warming centers. ACSL

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Mötley Crüe is set to headline the North Dakota State Fair on Friday, July 19.  The show is happening on the opening night of the fair, which runs through July 27,…

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Frustrated with legislative inaction on sports wagering, Missouri’s major sports franchises are going directly to voters. On Friday, a coalition that includes six major sports teams and is backed by major donations from two sports betting platforms announced an initiative campaign to put sports gambling on this year’s ballot. In a news release, St. Louis […]

The post St. Louis Cardinals lead Missouri’s major teams to launch initiative on sports betting appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The St. Louis Board of Alderman is taking up a bill regarding drone use in the city limits. This comes after a private company said it will use drones for surveillance of the Gravois Park neighborhood, citing crime issues as its main concern, although the company later stepped back from that plan. SMS Novel Films CEO Jomo Johnson sent a strongly worded letter to the city of St. Louis regarding the cease-and-desist letter sent earlier this week. He wrote that SMS Novel FIlms has every right to film…

ST. LOUIS -- Police found the body of an unidentified man in the 3600 block of Cass Thursday afternoon. They are asking anyone with information on the death to contact them. Officers were called to the area to investigate a shooting at around 3:30 p.m. They found the victim on the sidewalk with puncture wounds. [...]

The 1.46 million-square-foot skyscraper received at least one bid in an online auction, according to people familiar with the matter.

A house in the Alton Fire Department was called to a scene of a house fire on January 11 around 1:30 p.m. The victim of the fire was the one who called 911. She called and told them that her house was on fire and she was inhaling smoke.

The Madison County coroner identified the victim on Friday.

A Germany-based manufacturer of security and surveillance equipment and software is opening a St. Louis-area office.

GODFREY - Jim Lewis, the Village of Godfrey’s Director of Maintenance, has a few tips on how to navigate snow plows and salt trucks during this weekend’s winter storm. As a cold snap approaches, Lewis and the rest of the department will be out on Friday afternoon, Jan. 12, 2024, to put down salt to prevent freezing on the roads. He doesn’t anticipate a lot of snow, but he warns that cars should be aware of ice as the temperature drops. He asks drivers to give the trucks plenty of room on the roadways. “What we do is we try to be preemptive as far as getting salt down on the roads in front of it,” Lewis explained. “Example, today, this rain is supposed to pretty well cut off by noon and right after that we’ll start putting salt down on the whole town because we’re worried about a flash freeze later, and hopefully that will combat it. When you get down to zero, that salt’s not going to do any good for you. But right now, it’

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Iowa has gotten about a foot of snow during the current storm. According to Research™ an inch of snow reduces voter turnout by 0.5%. Roughly speaking, then, we should expect that Monday's caucuses will see turnout about 5% lower than usual. That's not much, really, and there's no telling what it means in an all-Republican ...continue reading "Snowstorm will reduce Iowa caucus turnout slightly"

ALTON - Madison County Coroner Stephen P. Nonn on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, identified an Alton area woman who lost her life following a residential structure fire occurring on Grandview Avenue in the City of Alton on January 11, 2024. Tragically, the investigation, spearheaded by the Alton Police Department, has shown that the victim in this case called 9-1-1 to report that her house was on fire and she was succumbing to the smoke. 9-1-1 was called at 1:38 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, and officers with the police department and firefighters from the Alton Fire Department were immediately dispatched to the scene. Upon their arrival, heavy fire was present from the front of the residence. "Firefighters later located the victim inside the home and subsequent notification was made to the Office of Coroner and Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office," Coroner Nonn said. "The victim was identified as one: Tina Marie Price, 56, of Alton. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene

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Charlie is still in the cone. We've made the mistake twice of releasing him too early, so this time it's staying on until his wound is genuinely better. As you can see, though, it doesn't keep him from a proper snooze. It's a funny thing. Charlie doesn't usually sleep in the bed with us at ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 12 January 2024"

Today on TAP: Shame on Gary Gensler. And the coup against Katherine Tai.

The Who infamously sang, “I hope I die before I get old” in their hit “My Generation," which frontman Roger Daltrey seems to have some thoughts on now that he’s about to turn…

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The acquisition of Circle Health under then-CEO and Chairman Michael Neidorff raised questions last year from a financial analyst about why a U.S-based managed care company would branch out into an overseas country with a universal health care system. Dave Windley, a managing director at Jefferies and founding member of the firm’s Healthcare Equity Research team, said Circle Health was a “non-core” acquisition by Centene.