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EAST ALTON, Ill. - The Madison County State's Attorney's Office charged a 68-year-old woman Thursday in connection with a fatal fire at an East Alton storage facility. Firefighters and police in East Alton responded to a report of a fire just after 1:10 a.m. on Tusday, Feb. 21, at the STOR-ALL facility in the 600 [...]

No more details were released about the victim.

The state of Illinois has cited the assisted living facility Aspen Creek of Troy, Ill., and fined it $4,000 after a resident with dementia wandered outside into below-freezing temperatures and died last month.

On their two-year dating anniversary, modern day couple Rashad and Genesis have plenty to celebrate—a marriage proposal and the promise of a new life together. But will their relationship survive

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The suspect was on probation when officer's took him into custody and found a loaded AR-style gun and more than 600 capsules of suspected fentanyl.

Why is it that we've seen no productivity gains in the construction field? For example, here's the cost per square foot of building a skyscraper in Los Angeles over the past century:¹ Construction costs vary depending on both the type of building and what's being counted. The cost of the Wilshire Grand, for example, includes ...continue reading "Why does it cost so much to erect a skyscraper?"

The shooting happened in the northbound lanes of I-55 near mile marker three at about 4:30 p.m., police said.

Ben was also found outside of his habitat at the zoo earlier this month.

The artwork of two Black Sabbath albums will be turned into collectible statues. The music merchandising company KnuckleBonz is releasing officially licensed figures inspired by the witch on the cover of…

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Western Specialty Contractors – St. Louis Masonry Branch has restored the façade of Southwestern Illinois College’s three-story main complex in Belleville, IL. Founded in 1946, Southwestern Illinois College is a public community college in Illinois with campuses in Belleville, Granite City and Red Bud. Western contracted with project consultant Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. (WTI) in May […]

U.S. consumer protection in general has had an ugly few decades. One bright spot however has been the shift in the “right to repair” movement from niche nerdy fare to the mainstream. Not only have corporate efforts to monopolize repair resulted in a flood of proposed state and federal laws, the Biden Administration’s executive order on monopoly power […]

Detectives arrested a 16-year-old boy on Thursday, nearly a month after two other teenagers were arrested for a string of Dec. 6 burglaries.

Owner Jackie James said the circumstances have negatively affected the company's finances. The past few months have been "very stressful," she said.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner spoke to the media Thursday for the first time since a crash downtown led to fallout and calls for resignation this week. Gardner started and ended her statement by expressing sympathy to Janae Edmondson and her family after the crash that cost the 17-year-old Tennessee volleyball player her legs. She went on to acknowledge her office could have done more in the 2020 robbery case involving Daniel Riley, the crash suspect, but said her office tried to get…

Boeing said plans to stop making the F/A-18 Super Hornet in late 2025 allow it to redirect resources to future military aircraft programs. Meanwhile, the aerospace giant plans to build three new state-of-the-art facilities in the St. Louis area.

Millions of women have started their own businesses since the onset of the pandemic. Here's how that entrepreneurship has changed what it means to have (and be) a mentor.