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Twin babies found dead in childcare center bathroom, unanticipated delivery

2 years 2 months ago
CHICAGO — The bodies of two infant girls discovered in a bathroom of a Streeterville childcare facility Thursday night. According to police, the twin babies were found inside a garbage bag in the bathroom of a childcare center on the 400 block of East Ontario Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood just before 7 p.m. Police [...]
Peter Curi

NetChoice Challenges Yet Another Ridiculously Bad State Internet Law

2 years 2 months ago
NetChoice has been quite busy the last few years suing to stop a wide variety of terrible state laws designed to mess up parts of the internet. It took on Florida’s social media content moderation law and won (twice). It took on Texas’ social media content moderation law and won at the district court, and […]
Mike Masnick

Senator Harriss announces billion-dollar transportation improvement plan for 56th District

2 years 2 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE – State Senator Erica Harriss (56 th -Glen Carbon) is pleased to announce more than $1.3 billion in highway improvement projects could soon make their way to the 56 th District as a part of a newly announced transportation improvement plan by the state on Friday. “Infrastructure is the backbone of our communities and it’s important we continue investing in critical resources like our roads and bridges but also looking at ways to improve the overall safety and scope of our roadways,” said Senator Harriss. The new $41 billion, multi-year statewide effort spans over the course of six years and is the largest in state history. The plan invests in various modes of transportation including highway, rail, transit, aeronautics, and marine. Notable projects included in the proposed plans include: I-270: $101.9 million for interchange reconstruction, 1.2 miles of pavement replacement and additional lanes, bridge replacement and bridge superstructure

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Missouri's state capital, the most forgettable in U.S.

2 years 2 months ago
JOPLIN, Mo. — If you had just 10 minutes to name all fifty state capitals, do you think you would get most of them correct? Which ones would you forget and which would you remember? The folks at BetMissouri.com also had those same questions, and thought it would be interesting to see which state capitals [...]
Dustin Lattimer

Please Explain Governor Mike Parson's Taylor Swift Tweet to Us

2 years 2 months ago
We know who Taylor Swift is, having not been under a rock the last two decades. We, of course, know all too well who Governor Mike Parson is. Yet somehow we have no idea what anything in this five-sentence tweet by Parson about Swift means.
Riverfront Times Staff