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Video Included: Extraordinary Black History Exhibit Unveiled at Alton City Hall

2 years 4 months ago
ALTON - A detailed Black History Exhibit has been established at Alton City Hall. The new exhibit was unveiled this week and led by Sheila Goins, wife of Alton Mayor David Goins. Sheila said she was “super excited” to display the Black History Exhibit at City Hall. February is Black History Month throughout the country. “What we have here is just a snapshot display of the wealth of black history in Alton, Illinois,” she said. “We have it categorized from community, music, education, freedom and equality in schools, and more. We want people to come and see all this exciting material.” Sheila said the exhibit is a collective effort between her and three prominent women in the community - Charlotte Johnson, Minnie Johnson, and Eva Perkins. “Charlotte, Minnie Johnson, and Eva Perkins were instrumental in providing the information,” Goins said. “Eva was a strong contributor to Alton’s area musician's success.” Johnson

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Attorneys general from 23 GOP-led states back suit seeking to block abortion pill

2 years 4 months ago

WASHINGTON — Attorneys general representing nearly two dozen Republican states are backing a lawsuit that would remove the abortion pill from throughout the United States after more than two decades, eliminating the option even in states where abortion access remains legal. The state of Missouri filed its own brief in the case Friday while Mississippi […]

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Jennifer Shutt

Help find this St. Louis man missing since October

2 years 4 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- Police are asking the public for help finding a 28-year-old man who has been missing since last year. Mark Corwin's mother reported him missing on January 21, 2023. He was last seen near Saint Louis University Hospital on October, 9, 2022. Police were able to determine that he last withdrew money from [...]
Joe Millitzer

There’s a Spongebob-Themed Dance Party Tonight in St. Louis

2 years 4 months ago
Promoters have finally figured out that people just want to dance and have a little fun before we all die, and they’ve started booking events with this in mind. Case in point: tonight at Red Flag (3040 Locust Street, redflagstl.com) they’re having a "Bikini Bottom Rave." Yep, it’s a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed dance party, and you can go even if you don’t live in a pineapple under the sea.
Jaime Lees

Man sentenced to prison for dozens of St. Louis area catalytic converter thefts

2 years 4 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- An East St. Louis man will be spending the next nine months in prison and paying his victims over $46,000 for a series of thefts. Matthew Jennings, 31, was sentenced for stealing 39 catalytic converters from vehicles across the St. Louis area. The Department of Justice says that Jennings worked with D’Ante [...]
Joe Millitzer

Authorities find relative in missing Picher girl case; awaiting DNA results

2 years 4 months ago
MIAMI, Okla. – An older sister of Cheryl Taylor, a Picher girl missing for 45 years, is providing Texas authorities with a DNA sample in hopes it is a match to the unidentified body of a woman found in 1981. The sister, who asked not to be immediately identified, lives in a community north of [...]
Sheila Stogsdill