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A retired dispatcher shares how the dispatcher shortage has been brewing through three mayoral administrations.

Seven teachers from the St. Louis region have advanced to the semifinalist stage as nominees for the 2024 Missouri Teacher of the Year award. This program highlights the crucial role that outstanding teachers play in their students' lives.

SPRINGFIELD – A new law championed by State Senator Christopher Belt will tackle the increasing number of food deserts in Illinois. “Everyone should be close to fresh and affordable food ,” said Belt (D-Swansea). “This new Grocery Initiative Act will provide crucial support to grocery stores in areas where they are needed most.” Under the new law, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will be required to provide grants and other forms of financial assistance to grocery stores located in or to be located in a food desert. This aims to help mitigate the issue of food deserts across the state. An area is considered a food desert when urban residents have to travel more than a half-mile and rural residents more than 10 miles to get to the nearest grocery store. “When communities lack grocery stores, it can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of residents,” said Belt. “With this new initiative, we are heading

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EAST ALTON – Visitors to the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center’s Jerry F. Costello Confluence Field Station will notice a new addition atop its iconic green roof. A weather station, specifically called a Mesonet station, from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Saint Louis University, was recently installed by NGRREC sm Post-Doctoral Research Associate Teresa Baraza, PhD, and Doctoral Student Ryan Kelly. "We are excited to be able to bring this collaboration to fruition,” Baraza said. “The NGRREC field station is a great location for a Mesonet station that can yield useful and reliable weather data, so this is a great opportunity for both institutions". The goal of this weather station is to continuously collect real-time data on temperature, pressure, moisture, rain fall, solar radiation and wind speed. The station will record each of these metrics every minute, giving researchers a more complete picture of weather fluctuations

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- A U.S. District Judge sentenced a Worden man to serve seven years in federal prison for the possession of illicit child pornography.

CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today commemorated August as Child Support Awareness Month by highlighting Illinois’ new law to improve the collection of child support payments and ensure families across the state receive the support they need to raise their children. Raoul initiated House Bill 3301, which was signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker and sponsored by Sen. Mike Halpin and Rep. Terra Costa Howard, to amend the Unemployment Insurance Act to require employers to report independent contractors as new hires starting Jan. 1. The new reporting requirement will ensure that the Attorney General’s office is able to better ensure that non-custodial parents employed as independent contractors are meeting their child support obligations. “August is Child Support Awareness Month, and I am proud to highlight the latest efforts my office is undertaking to ensure children in Illinois get the support they need. This law will help our child support attorneys in thei

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Built in 1960, the residence was designed by architect Isadore Shank.

Let’s start from the basics here: if you tax something, you will get less of it. That’s how taxes work. If you want less of something, you add a tax to it. In Canada, some very, very clueless politicians (pushed by the news media) passed a tax on Facebook and Google linking to news. Both […]

Steve Miller is sharing another taste of his upcoming box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of his classic album The Joker.  The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is giving fans some insight…

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The last three Missouri teachers of the year came from the Ritenour, Ferguson-Florissant and Lindbergh school districts.

Last week, the top official of a north St. Louis County municipality was allegedly in a vehicle that ran over a photojournalist hoping to interview her, leaving him with a broken leg that required emergency surgery. The incident, first reported by the Post-Dispatch yesterday, occurred last Friday outside city hall  for the Village of Hillsdale, where Mitch McCoy, a reporter with Fox 2 (KTVI) showed up with cameraman Wade Smith to speak with Hillsdale Chairwoman Dorothy Moore. 

Musical theatre is filled with great love ballads, going all the way back to "Tea for Two" (yes, "Picture you / upon my knee / just tea for two / and two for tea" counted as clever lyrics back in 1925). But in our book, the best show tunes are the acid ones, from "The Gentleman Is a Dope" in the otherwise forgotten Allegro to "Could I Leave You" from Stephen Sondheim's genius Follies (sample lyric: "Could I bury my rage / With a boy half your age in the grass?

The annual Delmar Black Business Expo in St. Louis, which returned on August 26, is one of the numerous efforts Mastercard is supporting to help close the racial wealth and opportunity gap for Black communities across America.

One Kansas City mother still grieves her son’s unsolved murder while she pleads to the public for information that could lead to an arrest.

A June attack of a man in the city's Dutchtown neighborhood has been ruled a homicide.

A high-visibility “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign starts Friday, August 18 and goes through Tuesday, September. 5.

ST. JOHN -- A man is facing felony charges for cutting another man with a machete during a fight on August 7, 2023. Deangelo Ford, 46, is being held on a $150,000 cash-only bond. Police say the victim has a small cut to his nipple. A machete was found nearby by officers. Ford says that [...]