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Mild weather prompts early opening of Greenscape Gardens
The calendar may still say winter, but it doesn’t feel like it. And with even warmer days ahead, many are looking forward to spring planting.
FEMA shutdown drags on amid stalemate over reforms to immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON — The nation’s main agency for handling disaster response and recovery is shuttered for the third time in recent months and its workers are on the verge of missing paychecks, as members of Congress and the White House remain divided in a separate dispute over immigration enforcement. Lawmakers are raising questions about how the […]
Ozzy Osbourne to posthumously receive lifetime achievement award at 2026 BRITs
The late Ozzy Osbourne will posthumously be honored with the lifetime achievement award at the 2026 BRITs, the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys.The ceremony, which takes place Saturday in Manchester,…
Family discovers body after house fire in Wellston
A family is in mourning after learning that one of their loved ones was found deceased in a home that caught fire in Wellston.
Spring Training Game Jupiter Florida 2/26
Cameron Bopp is moving to California
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Let Fly The Claudes Of War, With Casey Newton
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]
Dave Grohl took inspiration from daughter Violet’s music on new Foo Fighters album
At least two members of the Grohl family are readying new albums.Dave Grohl is putting out a new Foo Fighters record, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24. Meanwhile, his daughter Violet…
BJC Healthcare reveals employee pay changes
BJC Healthcare announced a new compensation structure that it says would maintain or increase pay for 72% of its employees, but the health system did not immediately clarify impacts on the remaining 28% of its workforce.
ISP Efforts Results In Fewest Homicides In East St. Louis In Decades
St. Louis man sentenced for $300K Kohl’s Cash scheme
A St. Louis man was sentenced Thursday for a scheme taking place in multiple states that stole nearly $300,000 worth of merchandise from Kohl's.
Love Rocks NYC concert, featuring Paul Simon, Elvis Costello & more, to be streamed live
The 10th annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert will take place March 5 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, but you don't have to be in the Big Apple…
Governor appoints judge for St. Charles County circuit
Robert Cornejo, a former state legislator and associate circuit judge, succeeds Matthew Thornhill, who was ousted by the Missouri Supreme Court.
Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for $300,000 Kohl's Cash Scam
ST. LOUIS –U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced a man who stole nearly $300,000 worth of online merchandise from Kohl’s to 87 months in prison. Judge Autrey also ordered Marshall Lampkin, 36, to pay the retailer $301,713 and forfeit the stolen items that have been recovered. According to evidence and testimony at Lampkin’s trial in August, Lampkin carried out his scheme by first using Kohl’s Cash to purchase merchandise in a Kohl’s store,
Duckworth Grills Top DoD Nominee for Refusing to Commit to Prevent Military Being Stationed Near Polling Places
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) pressed a top U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) leader, Mr. Mark Ditlevson, to assure the American people that the Trump Administration would not station troops near polling places in future elections, which is against the law and against our nation’s fundamental democratic values. When Mr. Ditlevson refused to provide that assurance at his nomination hearing today, Duckworth pressed further asking him what th
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Attorney General Raoul Continues To Defend Birthright Citizenship At U.S. Supreme Court
CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of birthright citizenship. Raoul and a multistate coalition filed the brief in support of a legal challenge to President Trump’s unlawful effort to rewrite the Constitution and overturn federal law. On his first day in office in 2025, President Trump issued an executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship for countless children born in the United States to immigrant
E-Verify requirements draw business pushback in some Republican states
Pressured by businesses on the importance of immigrant labor, some Republican states are backing off plans to require all employers to check for legal employment status before hiring workers. State and federal legislation to require that employers use E-Verify, a federal system to check legal status, has been limited this year as a push grows […]
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