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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.

Authorities on Friday identified the woman who died after her house caught fire.

A Minnesota-based provider of janitorial services is laying off workers next month after it lost a contract.

“I don’t even want to really be associated with a head shop, because I feel like I’m in a different category,” the owner said. She specifically searched for space in high-end communities like Frontenac, Ladue, Clayton and Olivette.

It’s pretty amazing to me just how wrong one Senator can be about the internet for years and years and years. But we’ve been writing about Senator Richard Blumenthal and never, ever letting his own confusion about the internet get in the way of him boldly making foolish claims about the internet since before he […]

The Wall Street Journal reports today about a new study on learning loss from the pandemic: In kindergarten, students tested in 2023 were about 2 percentage points less likely to begin school at grade level in both math and reading, compared with 2019, data compiled by the testing company Curriculum Associates show. Scores also remained ...continue reading "Kindergarten kids also suffered learning losses during the pandemic"