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BELLEVILLE - To encourage residents of all ages to stay active this summer, the St. Clair County Transit District (SCCTD) – in partnership with Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) – is once again sponsoring its Summer Riding Program. The program allows participants to track miles and earn prizes as they bike, walk, wheel, run, skate or skip along the MetroBikeLink System, which boasts 14 miles of continuous trails and bike paths adjacent to the MetroLink alignment in Southwestern Illinois. Registration is now open and can be completed at www.scctd.org . The summer-long effort officially gets underway on Saturday, May 20, with a “Day on the Trails” event from 9 a.m. to noon at the Belleville Transit Center. This event is free and open to the public. “This program is much like those offered through libraries incentivizing kids to read, but instead of reading a certain number of minutes to earn prizes, participants track miles on the MetroBikeLink System,”

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The FBI has never not been abusing its access to Section 702 collections. This collection includes communications, scooped up by the NSA during its so-called “foreign facing” surveillance. The thing about this collection is it also obtains communications from US persons to foreign individuals. The NSA can collect the latter, but not without grabbing the […]

The Rock for Ronnie concert, held in memory of the late Ronnie James Dio, raised over $50,000 for the Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund. The event took place May 7…

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While Foreigner is currently on their farewell tour, it is without original member Lou Gramm.  But now fans have a chance to see Gramm onstage: the rocker just announced dates for the Lou…

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A St. Charles County business owner was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in federal prison for using over $3 million in employees’ tax money for college tuition and mortgage payments on two houses.

On the day of Gardner's contempt hearing, her city-owned vehicle was at the Family Health Center in the Grove where she was completing clinical hours in pursuit of a nursing degree

People who live in Illinois are among the happiest in the nation, while those who live in Missouri are not, according to a new national study.

ST. LOUIS — Statewide unemployment remained at 2.5% in April, marking yet another month of below-3% joblessness in Missouri and signaling that employers will likely continue to struggle to hire.

The St. Louis metro area is one of the nation's hotbeds for women's entrepreneurial activity, according to research by small-business lending company OnDeck. OnDeck analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data for more than 900,000 organizations in each state and major cities to find out which had the most women business owners. To be classified as an owner, a person needed to own at least 10% of a business. OnDeck calculated the percentage of female business owners based on each geographical location’s…

A criminal contempt case against former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and a former assistant prosecutor Chris Desilets has been dismissed, according to new court documents obtained by FOX 2 on Wednesday.

A man was shot and killed Monday night in the city's O'Fallon neighborhood.

On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, The Air That Inhabits features artworks by the current MFA in Visual Arts candidates of the Sam Fox

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On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until Aug. 6, African Modernism in America is the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connection between modern African

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This series of new work directs our gaze towards arduous and life-threatening journeys that millions of immigrants undertake in search of a better home, often holding an image of a

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AJ Ainscough explores with this new exhibition, the complex and nuanced emotions of love and relationships through a diverse collection of paintings and works on paper. He focuses on exploring

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Meditating on the passage of time, the show presents work that is a result of the inevitable interplay between an artist’s solitary workings in her studio and those of a

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Atrium announces an upcoming Spring Exhibition, “Chasing the Landscape.” Featured artists are Leila Daw, Ellen Glasgow, and Adam Straus. This exhibition contrasts three approaches to our treasured landscape and helps

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Artists Vicente Telles and Brandon Maldonado are forging new links in the chain of the continuing story of the people of New Mexico. Telles is firmly rooted in the santero tradition

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Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people. Now a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades. […]

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