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Work Ongoing for Route CC/Highway 109 Roundabout

2 years 1 month ago
From West Newsmagazine:  In early spring of 2024, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) began construction on a roundabout at Route CC (Wild Horse Creek Road) and Hwy. 109. Construction has hit a lull at the moment. Ryan Pearcy, the area engineer for MoDOT West County, said most of the prep work for the first […]
Kacey Crawley

Charges Issued for Assault and Armed Criminal Action Against 70-Year-Old

2 years 1 month ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY - On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued charges on suspect Patrick Johnson, 70 years of age, of the 800 block of Mclaran, St Louis, MO 63147, for Assault First Degree or Attempt and Armed Criminal Action. A booking photo of Johnson is attached. Johnson is being held without bond. The probable cause statement reads: The victim was discovered face down on his front porch with a lot of blood surrounding him. There was blood splatter on the walls and ceiling of the porch. The victim was determined to suffer a skull fracture and a traumatic brain injury. The day after the victim's injuries were sustained, the defendant, the victim's roommate, was observed cleaning blood from the home. Furthermore, the defendant's cane was broken into two pieces and was found to have blood on it. The victim identified the defendant as the person that beat him with a stick-like object after an argument. St. Louis County Police Department

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The Third Circuit’s Section 230 Decision In Anderson v. TikTok Is Pure Poppycock.

2 years 1 month ago
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded, in Anderson v. TikTok, that algorithmic recommendations aren’t protected by Section 230. Because they’re the platforms’ First Amendment-protected expression, the court reasoned, algorithms are the platforms’ “own first-party speech,” and thus fall outside Section 230’s liability shield for the publication of third-party speech. […]
Mike Masnick

Dark highways, fast cars, few sidewalks — and more pedestrian deaths

2 years 1 month ago
BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. — Bianca Quintana was just taking a walk in the early morning dark near her mother’s house on South Coors Boulevard. There, the city streets of Albuquerque give way to feed stores and irrigation ditches, and the sounds of chickens and crickets mingle with high-speed traffic noise. Quintana, a 31-year-old mother of […]
Tim Henderson

I-55 crash and car fire disrupt traffic for hours

2 years 1 month ago
OAKVILLE, Mo. -- A vehicle fire on Interstate 55 has closed lanes of traffic for over an hour Tuesday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says that the multi-vehicle collision happened in the northbound lanes, just south of the Meramec Bottom Road overpass. There is a significant traffic backup in the area. One vehicle was fully [...]
Joe Millitzer

Main Street Economics Founder Warns Of Federal 'Fiscal Irresponsibility'

2 years 1 month ago
ALTON - Les Rubin, founder and CEO of Main Street Economics , appeared on Our Daily Show! on Riverbender.com to debunk some recently raised economic myths while exploring the root causes of inflation and more. While Rubin said much of Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s economic policies remain vague, he did note her focus on lowering housing and grocery costs, but denied her claims of “price gouging” by grocery stores. “I’m not sure what she means by that because there’s really no evidence that the Fed has found that that’s happening,” Rubin said of price gouging. “If she’s talking about fixing prices, of course, that’s debunked by virtually everybody from all sides. That has never worked and will never work, all it does is create shortages and black markets - it doesn’t solve the problem.” Rubin sees Harris’s current platform as full of “populist ideas” which,

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RiverBender Blog: It Turns Out I'm Scared of Flying

2 years 1 month ago
I didn’t think I was afraid to fly until I was at the airport, and then I was terrified. This Labor Day weekend, I found myself on a trip to Colorado. There will be more to come on the trip itself, but first, I had to conquer the flight there and back. The last time I stepped foot in the airport, I was 17 and invincible. Now I’m 24 and just a little more wary. I was nerved up about the flight, but even the process of getting to the airport and making it through security made me anxious. I spent 30 minutes the night before the flight looking up the rules on liquids and the security checks, at one point literally googling the phrase “how does the TSA work.” With this level of anxiety, I was legitimately quivering by the time we got to the security check. And, of course, it passed without incident. (I learned nothing from this; I was equally nervous before the security check on the flight home. But hey, at least we made it through.) Once we got through

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