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Beginnings 2023: Juried High School Photography December 1- January 7 Reception & Gallery Talk - Friday, December 1, 2023 5:30-7:30pm This exhibit showcases the artistry of high school student photographers. […]

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December 1 - 16, 2023 What would you do with 8x8x8 feet of gallery space? This was the question the Foundry posed to artists for our 8x8x8 Winter Exhibition. Regional […]

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The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century presents a sweeping art history of hip-hop culture and its myriad expressions across the globe. The multidisciplinary and multimedia […]

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in […]

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Shop owner Ymani Wince recently started a "Books Are Good" campaign to launch a free book vending machine named ONYX.

EDWARDSVILLE - Precia Chimaren is poised to take the world by storm, as soon as she finishes middle school. For her achievements and great character, Precia Chimaren is a Gerard Fischer Student of the Month for Liberty Middle School. Chimaren is “involved in all things Liberty Middle School,” according to her teachers. She is a member of the House Council for Reveur, so she leads her fellow students and serves as a representative for her house. Her leadership skills are also at play as a member of the GLO team, or the “guidance, leadership and opportunity” team, which identifies responsible leaders in the eighth-grade class. Through the GLO program, Chimaren participates in community service projects, keeps her grades up and advocates for other students. In fact, Chimaren regularly helps other students who could use some kindness. She gives tours to new students when they arrive at Liberty Middle School, often becoming their first friend. She also

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A St. Louis man is facing two firearm-related felonies after pulling a gun on a woman he'd met only a few days prior. Police say that 36-year-old Tony Bess Jr. met the Hazelwood woman earlier this month on a dating app and moved into her home a short time later.

Children of immigrants often face heritage language loss. St. Louis parents and community members are taking practical steps to maintain linguistic and cultural connection across generations.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. — After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped to a wastewater recycling facility next door and undergoes three different purification processes until it is clean enough to drink. […]

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Two teenagers are in custody Tuesday on suspicion of car clouting in south St. Louis after police fired shots at the young men.

A suit says the Ashley Furniture "Party Time" recliner overheated and engulfed a St. Louis apartment in flames.

As many as 30 pastors in the St. Louis area have submitted decisions on the future of their struggling Catholic grade schools.

The shooting call was reported in the 7000 block of Morganford Road.

The longtime logging town of Darrington, Washington is showing how local communities re-engage with the federal forests that surround them.

Carl Barnes, 56, of Moline Acres, died at the scene of the crash in the 4200 block of East Page Boulevard.

Green Street Real Estate Ventures wants a tax abatement extension on land it plans to use for industrial space. Aldermen aren't so sure.

CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 20 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in support of the state of California’s efforts to restrict the sale and possession of assault weapons within its borders. “States should be able to protect residents and communities by passing laws restricting the sale and possession of assault weapons,” Raoul said. “I will continue to collaborate with fellow attorneys general who prioritize public safety by defending common sense gun safety measures.” The case, Miller v Bonta , concerns the constitutionality of California’s assault weapons ban, and the coalition filed an amicus brief in support of California in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California issued an injunction against California’s Assault Weapons Control Act, and California appealed the decision. The Ninth Circuit has stayed the

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and U.S. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) today reintroduced the Corporate Crime Database Act , bicameral legislation that would require s the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect, aggregate, analyze, and publish comprehensive data on federal corporate criminal enforcement actions. Today’s bill introduction comes ahead of a full Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on corporate crime tomorrow entitled “ Cleaning Up the C-Suite: Ensuring Accountability for Corporate Criminals .” “We believe that comprehensive, national data collection and a searchable public database of the results of federal enforcement actions against corporations and individual actors engaging in corporate misconduct would provide better oversight, inform DOJ’s corporate criminal prosecution practices, and demonstrate the effectiveness

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SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois took a preliminary total of 76,232 deer during the seven-day 2023 Illinois firearm deer season that concluded Dec. 3. Comparatively, hunters harvested 76,854 deer during the 2022 firearm season. The preliminary harvest for the second segment of the 2023 firearm season Nov. 30-Dec. 3 was 22,884, compared with 24,500 deer harvested during the second part of the 2022 season. The preliminary harvest for the first segment of this year’s firearm season Nov. 17-19 was 53,348 deer. Remaining 2023-2024 deer hunting opportunities in Illinois include: Late-winter antlerless-only and chronic wasting disease (CWD) season, in designated counties only, Dec. 28-31 and Jan. 12-14. A map showing the counties open to late-winter and CWD seasons can be found online . Archery deer season continues through Jan. 14. Go online for more deer hunting information . A table of preliminary 2023 firearm deer season totals by county and comparable totals

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