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TourCo: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Presented by TourCo, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Merry Wives) will be performed at 24 parks throughout the St. Louis region from Aug. 1 to 27. Suki Peters, a celebrated Shakespearean
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Rally Runner indicted on charges related to Jan. 6 riot
Local BBQ restaurant reopens after recent storms caused power outages
Due to severe weather over the weekend, a local barbecue restaurant had to shut down, resulting in the loss of its entire inventory.
Forestry Division employee shortage affects tree limb cutting, pick-up
Tree dangers are becoming a bigger issue in St. Louis and not just because of all of our recent storms.
Anyone have a wood lathe?
Concealed Carry Laws?
Kansas City to St. Charles river race canceled
The MR340, the world’s largest non-stop river race, has been called off one day after starting due to dangerous storms and poor river conditions.
Looking for Childcare
Jim Larkin, Backpage Exec, Dies By Suicide A Week Before His Trial
Some unfortunate news. AZ Central reported yesterday that James Larkin, who was a free speech pioneer who built an alt-weekly newspaper empire, and then spun out the controversial classifieds ads site Backpage, died by suicide, one week before his latest trial. While there’s been plenty of discussion about Backpage, related to questions around Section 230, […]
Fredrick Echols an inaugural Obama Foundation cohort
The Obama Foundation Leaders USA program has tapped Dr. Frederick L. Echols, a former St. Louis Health Director, as one of its 2023 “Inaugural Cohort” members.
Illinois watchdog investigating employees accused of pandemic aid fraud
Dozens of Illinois state employees across multiple agencies are under investigation by a state watchdog for claims they fraudulently obtained payments from a federal pandemic-era loan program.
Charter outage
Wave of construction projects at St. Louis Airport
It's being called the flight path for the future at St. Louis-Lambert International Airport. So if you head to the airport anytime soon, don’t forget to pack your patience.
Mississippi River lock near Alton closed for repairs, after run-in with a towboat
The main lock chamber of the Melvin Price Lock and Dam near Alton is closed to all Mississippi River traffic after a towboat collided with a lift gate on Tuesday.
St. Louis singer-songwriter Beth Bombara finds positivity in challenging times
Beth Bombara will perform her new album, "It All Goes Up," on Aug. 18 at the Old Rock House.
One-Man "Chain Gang" Cleans Up Illinois 143
WOOD RIVER/EDWARDSVILLE - When Rusty Wheat complained that garbage trucks were losing trash on their routes and asked if they could pick up what they left behind, he was told it wasn’t their problem. So Wheat decided it wasn’t just his problem either, and he was going to let people know about it. A few months later, he has cleaned up thousands of pounds of trash along Illinois Route 143, and Madison County is preparing to implement an adopt-a-highway program largely because of his efforts. The landfill and trucking companies might not have listened to Wheat, but he has created something bigger than them. “I just started picking up trash and trying to call as much attention to this as possible,” Wheat said. “ is the first thing they see when they come into Wood River off of 255, and that’s my stretch of highway. I call it my stretch of highway, it’s everybody’s stretch of highway, but I’ve adopted that road and I take a lot o
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