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Two men have been charged after they and an accomplice broke into a storage unit in St. Charles County and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of property.

GRANITE CITY – A mother from Granite City is asking the community for support with medical costs as her 3-week-old daughter, Gracelyn, battles a tumor and faces a long road to recovery. Brenna Tepen of Granite City organized the GoFundMe fundraiser for Gracelyn, whose health complications were first noticed just hours after her birth. Born with a “concerning neck mass,” Gracelyn was seen by an ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor) and underwent an MRI scan, though Tepen says more imaging is needed for doctors to determine the intensity of the tumor. “She has a tumor that goes from the base of her skull into her brain, around her spine, into her neck/throat, and down into her chest,” according to Tepen. Tepen noted Gracelyn’s oxygen repeatedly dropped while she was undergoing the MRI. She added Gracelyn has been placed on tube feeding after starting to lose weight from difficulties with other feeding methods. “We have a long road ahead of

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It might be easy to miss, but the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is changing. English Language Development Coordinator Melisha Otero is in her sixth year with the district. In that time, she’s seen the number of English language learner (ELL) students increase dramatically. During the 2020-21 school year, the number of ELL students hit […]

EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Municipal Band invites the community to a series of concerts this week that reflect the musical heritage of Glen Carbon and Edwardsville in the mid-20th century. The performances will spotlight the work of Anton Poneta, a longtime member of the band whose compositions were a familiar part of local concerts in the 1970s. Inspired by a program performed nearly fifty years ago, the band has reconstructed a full concert that reflects the sound, structure, and style of that earlier era. This special program includes a number of original marches and tone poems composed by Poneta himself, performed alongside works by Franz von Suppé, W.C. Handy, John Philip Sousa, and others—offering a musical portrait of what local audiences would have experienced in a typical summer concert decades ago. The event is presented in cooperation with the Glen Carbon Heritage Museum, which will also display materials connected to Poneta’s musical and personal

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A recently opened museum exhibit dedicated to Ozzy Osbourne has been extended following the heavy metal icon’s July 22 death.Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero opened on June 25 at the Birmingham Museum…

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Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick relayed his department’s report with a measured tone, but the information he shared screams trouble for Saint Louis Public Schools. The first of two audits gives the SLPS a “poor” rating and criticizes the district’s deficit spending, including unjustified salary increases and credit card misuse.

Homes near tornado damage in the St. Louis region could see a sharp price drop in the coming months, according to the Federal Reserve. But that steep decline could possibly be short-lived.

British musician Terry Reid, most famously known for turning down offers to front Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died at the age of 75.His death was confirmed by Cleopatra Records, which…

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CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, submitted comment letters to several federal agencies strongly urging that they refrain from moving forward with proposed final rules that rescind regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The rules, which take effect immediately, largely eliminate the agencies’ existing NEPA regulations and replace them with a patchwork of “non-binding” procedures. In the comment letters, the coalition argues that these rules will create significant environmental harm to communities nationwide, reduce public participation, and lead to less-informed environmental decisions. “This misguided proposal fundamentally undermines one of our country’s bedrock environmental laws, harming public health and the environment both within Illinois and nationwide,” Raoul said. “I will continue to advocate across state lines to preserve these necessary protections.&rdquo

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Today on TAP: Last week, 27 Democratic senators voted to ban such sales. But 17 voted to let them continue.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is bringing back a physical fitness test to public schools after over a decade, but details of the new test, including timing and implementation, remain to be seen. Trump signed an executive order July 31 that reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test — a source of both fear and achievement among youth […]

From New York Times: The plumber, the mason, the electrician and the carpenter arrived a full hour early to collect their blueprints. They had two days in June to build an eight-foot by 10-foot tiny home inside the convention center in downtown Atlanta. They knew little else about their assignment, but they were anxious to […]

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A teenager was shot at by a masked man while walking home from the store Monday evening.

A bank in North County was robbed at gunpoint Thursday morning.

From Derek Thompson on Substack: The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding […]

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Lawmakers often move into the lobbying ranks after they leave office.