We’ve been saying for years now that Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against social media and kids is a moral panic dressed up in academic robes, and that the evidence simply does not support the sweeping claims he’s been making. A new piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff drives that point […]
EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Edwardsville, Illinois, that a 34-year-old Bethalto woman has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and permitting sexual abuse of a child. Ashley L. Rusk received the sentence after pleading guilty on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, to one count of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child and one count of Permitting Sexual Abuse
EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, that an Edwardsville man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of home invasion and aggravated battery in an attack at a Glen Carbon residence. Circuit Judge Kyle Napp issued the sentence Monday to Timothy P. Rodgers, 40, of Edwardsville, according to Haine’s office. A jury in October found Rodgers guilty of entering the Glen Carbon home of his former father-in-law
A terrifying car crash turned heroic in seconds, and it was all caught on camera. Dashcam footage from Webster Groves Police Department shows the heart‑stopping rescue on Interstate 44.
EDWARDSVILLE - An Edwardsville High School student received second place out of nearly 200 entries at the SIUE 2026 Annual High School Art Exhibition. Maya Hatch, a senior at EHS, fell in love with ceramics earlier this year in Cassie Flynn’s art class. She then took an independent study art class, which allowed her to finish work on her award-winning piece “The Scavenger and What Remains of Us.” Hatch shared she is proud of the accomplishment and eager to learn more ceramics
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman and several affiliated companies, demanding an immediate halt to the company’s advertising and sale of kratom products. She takes particular aim at the more potent 7-OH products, which she argues are “hazardous opioids” banned by state and federal law. “We […]
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri farm and produce operation, along with its owner, is facing a federal collective and class action lawsuit alleging it failed to pay required overtime wages to more than 100 temporary foreign workers.
A coalition of 22 states told a federal court that the Trump administration appears to have violated a court order that limited the types of health data that could be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings. Back in December, a court allowed ICE to pull some basic information from Medicaid, the […]
Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026 — A federal judge today blocked the Trump administration from ending federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“As the court said, it’s long been the law that the government can’t circumvent the Constitution by conditioning benefits on censorship where it can’t censor directly. That goes for publicly funded media, but it also goes for Brendan Carr’s FCC conditioning broadcast licenses or merger approvals for private media companies on editorial concessions to please Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth conditioning access to the Pentagon on journalists forfeiting established rights, or Trump himself steering transactions like the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger to supporters of his who promise him ‘sweeping changes’ to bend the news to his liking.
“Virtually all of the administration’s ‘wins’ in reshaping the media that Carr and Trump have bragged about at CPAC and in social media posts violate this well-established constitutional principle. More news outlets should sue and win.”
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