EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville City Council voted unanimously to deny a Special Use Permit sought by a Catholic student organization at SIUE for a “religious institution” at 1631 Yellowhammer Crossing. SIUE Chancellor Dr. James Minor, Cougar Catholic representatives, area neighbors, and more offered mixed public comments both opposed and in favor. Council members said both sides presented good cases, but they ultimately couldn’t justify approving the Special Use, citing disapproval from the majority of the neighborhood residents and other factors. The council ultimately denied the Special Use request 7-0. The property in question is a house currently sitting vacant in a residential neighborhood between the SIUE campus and State Route 157. The proposed use was for the campus organization “Cougar Catholic,” or the SIUE Newman Catholic Community , to turn the home into an “office space for the staff and a meeting and worshipping space for
One driver is dead after a speeding car hit an embankment and went airborne in south county, crashing into two homes along Kingston Drive near Telegraph Road. KMOV's Deion Broxton posted footage of the crash taken from a Ring camera on Twitter. It shows the vehicle fly through the air, clip one home and then destroy much of the front brick wall of another.
Without Bailey’s approval, abortion-rights supporters have not been able to start work getting the signatures needed to put the measure before voters in 2024.
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SC* was at work at a fast-food joint snorting crushed-up pills in the walk-in refrigerator when his sister, the manager, caught him. At 19, he'd dropped out of college and was smoking weed all day in addition to abusing opiates.
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While early “AI” systems have plenty of creativity and productivity potential, early implementations into the already very broken US journalism and media markets have proven to be an ugly mess. In part because the tech isn’t really fully cooked yet. But also because the kind of folks that get to run major modern US media […]
The Arena Football League announced Tuesday the locations of its first 16 teams as part of the organization's 2024 relaunch, including St. Louis.
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The AFL suspended play and filed for bankruptcy in 2009 before returning…
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