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The Black Crowes are headed to Las Vegas for Super Bowl weekend. Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson are booked to play two shows at the Pearl Theater at Palms Casino Resort on February 9 and…

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EDWARDSVILLE - Before the first bell of the day, first and second graders at Eastwood Elementary School in East Alton and Ellis Elementary School in Belleville engage in math instruction but with a twist: Math strategies and equations are made to look like fun and games, courtesy of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville elementary education teacher candidates. The project is known as CIED 441 Morning Math Enrichment. “Teacher candidates enrolled in CIED 441 Teaching and Learning Elementary Level Mathematics create hands-on math games to reinforce computation skills,” said SIUE Elementary Education Program Director Barbara Martin, EdD, associate math professor in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior’s Department of Teaching and Learning. “The teacher candidates visit either Eastwood Elementary or Ellis Elementary to ‘play’ the games with elementary students before school.” Elementary Education majors Caitlin Foster,

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Yesterday the Biden administration issued "a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI)." As best I can tell, it includes basically one item of any importance: NIST will develop standards for red-team testing of AI software that affects "critical infrastructure, ...continue reading "Biden’s new AI executive order is lots of talk, not much action"

A Pennsylvania state court jury ordered Bayer AG to pay $175 million in damages to a man who blamed his cancer on its Roundup weedkiller, the first sizable verdict in a Roundup case in four years, according to Bloomberg.

A group of Black heavy equipment operators argue they are paid less than their white counterparts and have been denied overtime pay they're owed.

Gino Rives, 36, of Edmundson, pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding two elderly women out of homes, cars and more than $750,000.

St. Louis will relish any small claim to fame it can get. The 1981 film Escape From New York was filmed in St. Louis, and people still talk about. In 2009, director Jason Reitman filmed a few scenes of Up in the Air in St. Louis, and people still talk about it.

The days will continue to get shorter until the winter solstice on Dec. 21.

The annual Halloween trick or treat in Old Town Florissant was held Oc t. 28. It was high and dry at 4 p.m. These scenes were shot by editor Bob  Lindsey prior to the periods of rain later in the afternoon

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Metallica's Kirk Hammett has teamed up with Epiphone for a new signature guitar. The Kirk Hammett 1979 Flying V recreates the shredder's own Flying V guitar and comes in ebony…

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"Dreaming," a new Sting, Pink and Marshmello collaboration that reworks Sting's 1993 hit "Fields of Gold," has landed the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer back on the pop and dance charts. As Billboard notes, the song…

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Tommy Tuberville, the moron senator from Alabama, has been holding up hundreds of military promotions for months. This weekend the commandant of the Marine Corps collapsed after suffering a heart attack, which leaves the Corps leaderless since Tuberville has blocked the confirmation of Lt. Gen. Christopher Mahoney as assistant commandant. So now we have this: ...continue reading "Tommy Tuberville suddenly wants to confirm a general"

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has appointed a coordinator for Cahokia Heights and the Metro East to support progress on the flooding, sewage and drinking water crisis. In August of 2022, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin announced millions of dollars in federal funding through Congressionally Directed Spending and expanded federal water infrastructure grants that could be used to address the crisis. In April of this year, Congresswoman Budzinski secured a commitment that the EPA would appoint a coordinator to leverage these funds with existing state and local efforts to bring much needed relief to the community. A video of Budzinski requesting and securing the commitment in an exchange with EPA Administrator Michael Regan can be found here . “For decades, residents of Cahokia Heights have suffered from repeated instances

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The EPA has appointed a coordinator to help the Cahokia Heights community combat flooding, sewage, and drinking water concerns.

Tarlton, St. Louis’ largest women-owned general contracting and construction management firm, has promoted Diane Grimsley to project director. Grimsley has led Tarlton teams on a wide range of award-winning projects over multiple campuses for the firm’s institutional and healthcare clients, including Saint Louis Zoo, BJC HealthCare, SSM Health, Washington University School of Medicine and Washington […]

For months, it has seemed as though retailers are under siege, raided on a daily basis by organized groups of thugs who walk off with hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of merchandise. This has been amplified by all forms of media. Clips from security cameras circulate social media with viral spread outpacing reality. This […]

From Lincoln News Now:  Expanding west, St. Charles Community College held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday, for its new, innovative, future-focused, Regional Workforce Innovation Center. It will be the first building on the college’s new 55-acre campus, at the corner of Interstate Drive and Schaper Road in Wentzville. SCC’s Regional Workforce Innovation Center will prepare the […]