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Despite an over 50-year career, Jethro Tull has received no love from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Some Missouri Republicans have ever-so-slightly distanced themselves from the state's strict anti-abortion law as voters could weigh in next year.

PACKWOOD, Wash. — Last year, Don Pratt fled from his home as a wildfire swept down the mountainside here in Washington’s Cascade Range. “Heading out, I thought it was the last time I was going to see the house,” he said. As residents evacuated and smoke engulfed the small mountain community, fire crews with bulldozers […]

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When Rebecca Uccello got a call that her daughter’s Medicaid coverage was in jeopardy, she said it “sent me into a tailspin.” Her 13-year-old daughter, Izabella, has been on Medicaid since age two because of severe developmental disabilities, including a birth defect which prevents her spinal cord from properly developing and a neurological condition which causes fluid build-up in the brain. Uccello, of Springfield, Missouri, said she received renewal paperwork to verify Izabella’s eligibility…

The new building will enable The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) to expand its 15-year-old Pre-Employment training program with STLCC that provides the aerospace giant with a pipeline for future hiring.

The agency has spent $2 million on marketing contracts that its new leader said are meant to offset the headlines about crime and mayhem that can scare off new business.

The new capital will help fuel the nonprofit's plan to open 40 locations across the country over the next eight years.

EAST ALTON/WOOD RIVER - This week, the Wood River Drainage and Levee District (WRDLD) partnered with Keller Construction and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to prevent erosion near the Wood River Pump Station. The Wood River Pump Station drains water to prevent flooding, and WRDLD manages the Wood River levee system. Natural erosion has occurred near the pump station, which required a routine but large response from WRDLD, Keller Construction and IDOT. “Our contractor, Keller Construction, Inc., placed approximately 600 tons of IDOT RR3 riprap on the slope of the Wood River Pump Station impoundment to repair erosion and prevent future issues with the same,” explained WRDLD executive director Kevin Williams. This project was focused in the southeast quadrant of the intersection of Illinois Routes 3 and 143, near the city limits of Wood River. Keller Construction , which is based in Glen Carbon, lined the slope with IDOT’s approved side

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Lance Ballard, 41, of Ferguson, was identified as one of the men killed around 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 2900 block of Old Hanley.

The new brewery and restaurant will be the Louisville, Kentucky-based company's seventh location. It's set to open this November, the company's CEO said, assuming construction goes according to plan.

We’ve covered the many problems of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) for years now (this is the second Congress it has been introduced in), and it appears that more and more people are realizing the myriad problems with the bill which, ridiculously, has broad bipartisan support, with an astoundingly disappointing 43 cosponsors in the […]

St. Louis-based clinical-stage biotechnology startup Wugen, which has raised more than $200 million in venture, has dosed the first patient in a clinical trial for one of its cancer-fighting drug candidates.

Last week you saw Charlie peering at Hilbert from a distant hedge. This week you get a closeup of Charlie in the hedge. He was having lots of fun that day, leaping out of the hedge and startling Hilbert, and then circling back to the hedge to do it again. Hilbert just wandered around the ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 18 August 2023"

Today on TAP: Wall Street’s hilarious complaint against a totally captured self-regulatory agency has one thing right: This delegation of government authority is unconstitutional.

Neil Young’s classic album Harvest Moon is getting a very special vinyl release. The record will be released September 22 as a three-sided, double album ...

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Apparently a Category 4 hurricane is headed toward sunny little Irvine. That's something new and exciting. It's true that I've been desperately pining away for cooler weather since June, but this sure wasn't what I had in mind. Also, I was hoping to restart my astrophotography this weekend, but I'm pretty sure a hurricane will ...continue reading "A hurricane in Southern California?"