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Did you feel it? Overnight earthquake reports come in from Missouri, other states
KSNF/KODE - Just before midnight into Saturday, residents from around four states, including Missouri, began flooding social media with reports of an earthquake. Residents in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, and northwest Arkansas, along with northeastern Oklahoma, are all reported furniture shaking and cabinet doors opening. The US Geological Survey reports a 5.1 magnitude trembler NW [...]
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Will A.J. McCarron return to the St. Louis Battlehawks in 2024?
Some familiar faces are sticking with the St. Louis Battlehawks through the UFL merger. It remains to be seen if one of last year's leaders, quarterback A.J. McCarron, will return for another spring football season in St. Louis.
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Cardinals sign reliever Keynan Middleton, adding to transformed pitching staff
Keynan Middleton officially signed a one-year deal with the Cardinals on Saturday. The deal includes a club option for 2025.
The Cozy Cider Cabin: A Pop-Up Bar
Eckert’s, a family farm in Belleville, Illinois, welcomes you to the Cozy Cider Cabin. Open from Jan. 10 to Feb. 25, the wintery pop-up bar boasts a mountainside-cabin atmosphere with […]
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City Finds Hotel Rooms for Displaced Heritage House Tenants
After nearly three weeks as evacuees, the former tenants of Heritage House Apartments got a much-needed dose of good news Saturday. That’s when St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced that the city has secured at least one hotel, and was in the process of securing a second, to provide rooms for the evacuees, including 120 still sheltering at the Hilton by the St. Louis International Airport.
How to think for yourself
Caitlan Flanagan has an odd piece in the Atlantic today asserting that American university professors are no longer interested in presenting both sides of controversial issues—and I use the word assert advisedly here. The piece is odd because she presents literally no evidence for her argument even though she's written a whole book on the ...continue reading "How to think for yourself"
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Francis Howell teacher finishes 26th in Olympic marathon trials, won't make Tokyo
Jerod Broadbooks, 26, the band director at Barnwell Middle School, finished just more than six minutes behind the top finishers at Saturday's Olympic marathon trials.
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St. Charles County elder targeted in $300K fraud scheme; Georgia woman charged
A woman accused of targeting an elderly St. Charles County man in a fraud scheme that yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars has turned herself in to authorities in Georgia.
And That’s A Wrap! Check Out The Entries In The Public Domain Game Jam
As you likely know, at the beginning of January we launched the latest edition of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1928! We invited designers of all stripes to make analog and digital games using the material that entered the public domain this year (including the big one, Mickey Mouse). Now, the jam […]
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Carbon capture is slowly picking up steam
Continuing our series of Nat Bullard's climate charts, here's one about carbon capture: This surprised me. I didn't realize CCS had increased over the past few years, let alone by a lot. (But the numbers are still pretty low in absolute terms. Operational capacity in 2023 was 50 million tons compared to global CO2 output ...continue reading "Carbon capture is slowly picking up steam"
Here’s a nonseasonal look at the employment situation
The US lost 2.6 million jobs in January: So how did that become an increase of 353,000 in the official figures? The answer is seasonal adjustments: we always lose millions of jobs after the holiday season, so the numbers are adjusted based on how many we lost vs. how many we expected to lose. This ...continue reading "Here’s a nonseasonal look at the employment situation"
St. Louis man accused of shooting prostitute in his home
A St. Louis man accused of shooting a prostitute last month during an arranged meetup now faces felony charges.
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