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Neighbors in Edgewood and St. Mary’s, along with other parts of Festus, have been dealing with yellow, mucky water for some time. Officials say the cause is an old, outdated system that can’t support the city. Now, the city is working on a huge expansion and reimbursing residents for their water bills.

Check your tickets! Nearly $1.6 billion (with a “B”) is at stake in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing.

Around 3,100 people in the Fox C-6 School District voted for the increase and 6,000 against. In the Meramec Valley district, 771 voters supported the hike, while 727 disapproved.

A firetruck responding to a house fire in Florissant overturned in a rollover crash Tuesday evening.

Boeing is hoping to get approval from St. Louis Lambert International Airport in order to make their $2 billion investment a reality.

An underperforming school district in the Illinois Metro East with fewer than 100 students is costing taxpayers millions of dollars to operate. Parents in Madison County gave their district a failing grade and called on FOX 2 to evaluate this deal for taxpayers.

GLEN CARBON - A preliminary site plan for a new Club Car Wash to be built in Orchard Town Center was approved by the Glen Carbon Village Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The 5,300 square-foot facility will operate as a self-serve, drive-thru tunnel car wash serving a peak estimate of 70 cars per hour during the week. Joseph Howley, an engineer with Civil Engineering Design Consultants (CEDC), spoke at the meeting on behalf of Club Car Wash. He said the car wash is entirely self-service and will see even more cars on the weekends. “ called a ‘self-service’ tunnel, you actually drive in, you stay in your car and it just pulls you through there,” Howley said. “We’re looking at peak estimates of about 70 cars per hour during the week - there’s a higher estimate on the weekends, of course. The car wash panel itself has a capacity of about 100 cars an hour.” He credited the current plan for having “lots of stacking area” t

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The wild world of Milkweed plants is populated by aphids who suck the plant's life, beetles who suck the aphids dry, ant lion babies who will eat each other - and sometimes the Monarch butterflies whose caterpillars gotta eat Milkweed or starve.

         APHIDS!

Native gardening specialist Besa Schweitzer guides this conversational tour through the realm of Milkweeds - and the bugs to bug them! Her Wildflower Garden Planner is a book everyone can use to welcome Nature's Wild Child plants into your place. 

Congratulations, Besa, on this summer's recognition of your work from the native plant advocate botanists of Missouri Native Plant Society! Honor well deserved. Earthworms listeners: read Besa's take on this topic in The Healthy Planet July 2023 edition.

Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer and Green colleague in Sierra Club - and to KDHX production ace, Jon Valley

 

 

Family members of the 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan say the government is lying to them.

Yandy Díaz, Brandon Lowe and Randy Arozarena hit RBI singles in the eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2.

From Leader Publications:  The Jefferson County Health Department will seek construction bids soon for its new Hillsboro office, according to Jim Huber, principal and design coordinator for Archimages of Kirkwood. During the July 27 Health Department Board of Trustees meeting, Huber said drawings for the 19,957-square-foot, one-story building are complete and the company is ready […]

The St. Charles Police Department said Hannah Hesterberg was last seen on Monday on West Clay Street. No further information regarding her description was provided.