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The drive-thru coffee stand will start serving customers at 2475 Troy Road, in Glen Carbon, Wednesday.

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David Gilmour has released another performance from his concert film Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome, which is in theaters and IMAX now.The latest is a performance of the Luck and Strange track “Between Two…

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GRANITE CITY - Students in Mrs. Parker’s Career Exploration class at Granite City High School had an opportunity to explore the nursing profession during a visit from Alisa Richter of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Nursing on . The presentation provided an overview of nursing roles, responsibilities, and career pathways, along with details about SIUE’s nursing program and admissions process. Richter engaged students with an interactive demonstration featuring a baby simulator that allowed participants to hold a lifelike infant, listen to its heartbeat, and hear realistic cries. This hands-on experience aimed to illustrate aspects of nursing care in a practical setting. The visit offered students a comprehensive look at the nursing field and the educational steps required to enter the profession. Photos of the event were taken by Brayden Cook. Photo by Brayden Cook

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Nurse practitioner Ryan Sheridan says the Republican Party is at "a turning point."

EDWARDSVILLE – Three battery cases from the Edwardsville Police Department involve two local residents accused of battering each other on a transit bus and a third accused of biting a police officer’s hand after an alleged domestic battery. Nathaniel Smith, 34, of Alton, was charged on Sept. 11, 2025 with a Class 3 felony count of aggravated battery and a Class C misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. Smith allegedly struck the victim, Bijan J. Mehmadoost, about the body in a public place on Aug. 7, 2025. Specifically, he is accused of attacking Mehmadoost on a Madison County Transit (MCT) bus which was located at the intersection of East Schwarz Street and South Kansas Street at the time of the offense. Mehmadoost, a 36-year-old Edwardsville resident, was charged on Sept. 11, 2025 with a Class 3 felony count of aggravated battery and a Class C misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. Mehmadoost is accused of punching Smith and pepper straying him on the same date

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BRIDEVIEW – Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) has confirmed the first human West Nile virus-related death in suburban Cook County and Illinois this year. A suburban Cook County resident, whose age is in the 60s, has died. Laboratory testing has confirmed that West Nile virus was a contributing factor to the resident’s death. West Nile virus occurs in humans when they are bitten by mosquitoes that contracted the virus by feeding on infected birds. The risk of West Nile virus in suburban Cook County remains high. Since May 11, when the surveillance period began, through Sept. 6, suburban Cook County has recorded 33 cases of West Nile virus , almost twice the number of cases from last year. Of the total 33 West Nile virus cases, 22 have been neuroinvasive, meaning that the central nervous system was affected. Last year, 19 West Nile virus cases and five deaths were reported in suburban Cook County. Overall, the state of Illinois recorded 69 human cases

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CARLINVILLE — From September 1 through October 31, 2025, drivers in Macoupin County can support adults with developmental disabilities by fueling up at four local Shell stations featuring specially marked purple pumps. The stations, owned and operated by Carlinville-based J.F. Boente & Sons, will donate a portion of sales from these designated pumps to the Macoupin Center for the Developmentally Disabled (MCDD), a nonprofit day learning center serving developmentally disabled adults in the rural community. The initiative, part of Shell’s nationwide Giving Pump program, allows consumers to contribute to a local cause at no additional cost simply by choosing the marked pump. J.F. Boente & Sons, a fourth-generation Shell wholesaler with nearly a century of history in Carlinville, is partnering with MCDD to raise funds that will help expand the center’s programs and welcome new students. MCDD, now in its 70th year, provides education, transportation, food security, an

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Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off to his right wing billionaire buddies and, inevitably, slowly converted into a right wing propaganda safe space. After endless delays, Trump insiders claim […]

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ALTON - Alton Main Street , the Sierra Club Illinois ’ Three Rivers Project and Jacoby Arts Center are announcing the return of the Mississippi Earthtones Festival to Alton’s Riverfront Amphitheater on Saturday, September 20th from noon until 10:00 p.m. This 19th annual free event boasts 25 environmental education exhibits, 95 eco-friendly artists and makers, and 10 culinary vendors. The popular festival attracts approximately 5,000 community members and tourists to Downtown Alton to celebrate our river through art, music, and conservation every third Saturday in September. The theme of this year’s MEF is ‘Bloom Where You’re Planted’, and Alton’s riverfront will be filled with art that reflects this message. Local artists have been commissioned to build large installations that will enhance the festival grounds and delight festival goers. The Riverbend Yarn Bombers are adding onto last year’s fantastical walk-through yarn cottage

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New research finds that customer satisfaction at St. Louis Lambert International Airport ranks near the bottom among airports of similar size in North America.

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Jury trials of journalists arrested while reporting news are exceedingly rare in the United States. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) that maintains data on press freedom violations nationwide, has documented only nine in its history.

The next two are scheduled to take place in Kenton County, Kentucky, in just a couple weeks. Journalists Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith, both of whom were arrested while covering a protest on July 17 for Cincinnati-based CityBeat (Griffith is a student journalist at the University of Cincinnati who interned at CityBeat), are set to be tried Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, respectively. In an unfortunate irony, the protest was in opposition to the immigration detention of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled Egypt to escape persecution for his journalism.

A coalition of press freedom organizations and Cincinnati journalism professors sent a letter to the prosecutor, County Attorney Stacy Tapke, urging her office to drop the case. As the letter explains, when journalists are mistakenly arrested while covering protests, prosecutors usually decline to bring charges because they recognize that protests and their aftermath are newsworthy and journalists reporting on them are just doing their constitutionally protected jobs.

When prosecutors nonetheless push forward with these kinds of censorial charges, the cases often end in a dismissal and a civil settlement paid to the reporter, and those responsible are forced to explain why they wasted taxpayer funds trying to criminalize journalism.

Below are comments from representatives of several press freedom organizations that signed the letter, as well as from journalism professors at the University of Cincinnati (speaking in their individual capacities).

Comment from press freedom advocates

Seth Stern, director of advocacy at FPF, said, “With no end to civil unrest on the horizon, it’s more important now than ever that journalists are allowed to cover how police respond to protests. Officers engaged in misconduct have every incentive to disperse the press, which is precisely why the Department of Justice and courts have said that they can’t be allowed to do so. Even temporary detainments have a chilling effect, but putting journalists on trial for routine newsgathering is simply un-American. We hope prosecutors do the right thing without further delay.

Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), said, “Despite the National Press Photographers Association having spent over a decade providing training to police regarding the First Amendment rights of journalists, it is disturbing that some officers and agencies have not learned to respect those rights. We sincerely hope that the county attorney will remedy this wrong by heeding our request to dismiss the remaining charges and not add insult to injury.”

Anne Marie Tamburro, press freedom strategist at the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), said, “It is inexcusable that journalists in the United States are being put on trial for exercising their First Amendment rights. We urge Kenton County officials to drop all charges and ensure that journalists can do their jobs of keeping the public informed without unwarranted interference from law enforcement.”

Katherine Jacobsen, U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said, “It is concerning to see that two journalists are facing jury trials in relation to their reporting activity. Journalism is not a crime, and reporters should not be punished for covering matters of public interest.”

Comment from journalism professors

Alfred J. Cotton III, director of undergraduate studies, associate professor-educator, journalism at the University of Cincinnati, said, “Lucas Griffith is one of the best student journalists on this campus. He’s a former student of mine, and I believe wholeheartedly in his integrity and dedication to pursuing the truth. I stand with the call to drop the charges against him and Madeline Fening.”

Victoria LaPoe, department head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, said, “While I cannot speak on behalf of the university, I can speak for myself and my personal views. As a former journalist — specifically a television producer who would get out of the newsroom and on the ground to cover trials, protests, and breaking news — I witnessed firsthand how quickly situations can turn chaotic. I believe what is truly at risk here are core constitutional freedoms. The precedent this could set is deeply troubling. Journalists serve as the eyes and ears of an event, allowing citizens to be informed and make their own decisions. I hope it is beyond question that, in this situation, a journalist — and a student intern — should not face such severe charges for simply attempting to serve their community.”

Jenny Wohlfarth, a professor-educator in the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, added, “Newsgathering is a protected right under the First Amendment. What’s at stake here is not just these two reporters’ fates, but also the fundamental constitutional rights of a free press that are protected for all of us under the First Amendment. In helping prepare the journalists of tomorrow, we educators must teach our students the value of a free press, why it’s so critically important in a democracy, and how they must uphold the highest ethical standards in covering news events, both near and far. Without journalists to cover events like this, the public loses access to credible and accurate information that members of a free press routinely provide to help the public stay informed.”

The charges against the journalists originally included felony rioting, but that charge was dropped in July. The remaining misdemeanor charges against Fening include disorderly conduct, obstructing an emergency responder, failure to disperse, unlawful assembly, and obstructing a highway or public passage. Griffith is charged with those offenses plus resisting arrest.

You can read the letter here or below. If you have questions or would like further comment, please reach out to FPF at media@freedom.press, NPPA at lawyer@nppa.org, SPJ at chendrie@hq.spj.org, or CPJ at press@cpj.org.

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