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Six months ago, the name “Gabe Gore” was largely unknown.

Hush-a-Phone, Scissor Phones, One of the First Rotary Dial Phones – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Housed in a restored 1896 […]

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CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced an agreement with Castle Concrete Construction, Inc. (Castle) to pay $76,101.16 to resolve claims that the company unlawfully deducted wages from workers’ paychecks and failed to compensate an employee for time spent transporting other workers to and from worksites. “Any company doing business in our state must follow laws that require workers to be compensated for the hours they work without unauthorized pay deductions,” Raoul said. “I am committed to enforcing laws that protect Illinois workers and support law-abiding businesses.” In 2021, Castle began making unauthorized deductions from its employees’ wages. Castle also failed to pay one of its employees for the time he spent driving the company truck to and from job sites and working in Castle’s facility. Raoul and Castle executed an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance resolving an investigation by the Attorney General’s office

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As 2023 comes to a close, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) highlighted several key accomplishments she secured over the last year: “From helping almost 4,000 Illinoisans recover more than $2 million the Federal Government owed them to bringing home hundreds of millions of dollars to get the lead out of children’s drinking water, and from protecting hundreds of jobs in Peoria to helping bring home Illinois hostages held abroad, I’m so proud of everything we’ve accomplished this year,” Duckworth said. “It’s a true honor to continue serving Illinoisans in the United States Senate and as I look forward to the year ahead, I know there’s still much work to do to help save working families money, protect and defend women’s rights, end preventable gun violence, invest in communities that have been ignored for too long, advocate for Illinois on a global stage, support our troops and make sure we keep the promises

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Cher is taking legal steps to help her son Elijah Blue Allman, 47, who struggles with substance abuse: She's filed for a conservatorship of him. In legal documents obtained by…

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CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced today that veteran service organizations can now apply for a state charter through his office. As part of the Veteran Service Organizations State Charter Act that goes into effect Jan. 1, the Attorney General’s office will approve veteran service organizations’ (VSOs) applications for state charters. The Attorney General’s office assisted with the drafting of the act, which was sponsored by Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit and passed earlier this year by the General Assembly as House Bill 925. The law establishes requirements that a VSO must meet before being eligible to obtain a state charter in order to ensure that veterans throughout the state are being connected to the support and services they need. Prior to the passage of HB 925, the Military Veterans Assistance Act provided that VSOs could be congressionally or state chartered, but statute did not outline a process for VSOs to become state chartered. HB 925 brings clarit

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GRANITE CITY - Revity Credit Union employees joined together to raise $2,331.00 in the month of November to benefit the Granite City American Legion through their Smile for Jeans Program. The Smile for Jeans Program is funded by Revity Credit Union employees who make monthly, monetary donations out of their own pockets to a local organization. By donating $15 or more to a specific organization, Revity employees are able to wear jeans and tennis shoes on Fridays and Saturdays during that month. Nothing gets better than seeing a smile on an organization’s face when Revity Credit Union presents them with a jeans donation check. Revity Credit Union’s 2023 Smile for Jeans Program focuses on supporting our local communities that we work, play and live in. During the month of November, Revity employees proudly raised $2,331 for the Granite City American Legion. Revity Credit Union’s November donation was raised through combined efforts, $1,215 was raised through the jeans

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A chancellor at a Wisconsin university has been fired for engaging in explicit sexual acts with his wife on popular porn websites. He was previously denied a pay raise over inviting a former porn actress to speak on campus.er porn…

A Missouri woman whose life was the subject of an HBO documentary and Hulu series is set to be released from prison today. In July 2016, now-32-year-old Gypsy Rose Blanchard received a 10-year prison sentence for the killing of her abusive mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.

James Morgan Utz was carrying a hidden stash of medicine and secret messages when he was arrested near the present day Clayton and Ballas roads. On Dec. 24, 1864, he was hanged at St. Louis County Jail.

First passenger train west of the Mississippi got its start on Dec. 9, 1852, as part of westward expansion.

Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries suffering from “enshittification,” that generally means imposing obnoxious new restrictions (see: Netflix password sharing), endless price hikes, and obnoxious and dubious new fees geared toward pleasing Wall Street’s utterly […]

Nurses waved rain-soaked signs in front of SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital early Wednesday morning, the first day of a planned two-day strike.

It seems fitting for a teacher to pay it forward by making higher education possible for students who might otherwise be shut out.

Reports of catalytic converter thefts are down between 30% and 70% in counties across the St. Louis region.

Foley teenager Ruby Leigh will perform in Edwardsville on New Year's Eve.

Missouri lawmakers return next week to Jefferson City for their annual session with a new fight brewing between House and Senate Republicans that may have hastened a change in duties for long-time House GOP political strategist Jonathan Ratliff. Ratliff, who leveraged his success building a legislative supermajority into a political consulting firm with a variety […]

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Having moved to St. Louis not so long ago, I recently learned gooey butter cake is a St. Louis delicacy. Now, I’ve always loved gooey butter cake — just never looked into its history. 

The great philosophers in history have often asked, what is a community without a proper education? In St. Louis, our public schools have always provided a quality education through professionally trained teachers, a caring staff and adequate support resources. For more than a few years, the St. Louis Public School District has faced a host […]

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