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JERSEYVILLE – FBI Special Agent Jake Griffin visited Jersey Community High School (JCHS) on Tuesday to inform parents and community members about the growing threat of “Nihilistic Violent Extremism” (NVE), online recruitment methods, and more. The hour-long presentation in the JCHS auditorium highlighted certain NVE groups and their methods of recruiting children and teenagers through popular online platforms. Also discussed were possible NVE-affiliated signs for parents to look out in their children’s behavior and online activity. Griffin’s main goal with the presentation was to “arm” the community “with knowledge” about the emerging threat of NVE – a concept that even Griffin, a former New York cop of 10 years and current Hostage Negotiation Team leader and terrorism investigator with the FBI Springfield Office, found difficult to grasp at first. “Before I started looking at this threat, I would have told all

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore-area headquarters, Leland Dudek unfurled a 4-foot-wide roll of paper that extended to 20 feet in length. It was a visual guide that the agency had kept for years to explain Social Security’s many […]

A 50-year-old man from the De Soto area died in the Tuesday morning accident.

The Doors’ Robby Krieger has revealed the special guests joining him for his upcoming show celebrating 60 years of the band's legacy.Artists confirmed for A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration on Oct. 30…

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SSC Engineering has promoted three of its owners to expanded leadership positions as the firm enters its 34th year. Michael Vande Velde has been named senior associate, Jeremy Schuette has advanced to director, and Corey Bryant has been elevated to principal. Bryant joins Chris Cornett, Rich Kwiatkowski, and Brian Scott on the firm’s principal team […]

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A tentative agreement has been reached between striking workers and aerospace giant Boeing.

ALTON - The City of Alton has officially opened the Alton Fitness Court at Riverfront Park. Lyndsey Younger, executive director of the Alton Parks and Recreation Department, shared that the project has been in the works since December 2024. The court is now open to the public, and the department will celebrate with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. on Sept. 23, 2025. “My goal was to offer a state-of-the-art free outdoor fitness area for the public to use. They could come and use it as they want for free,” Younger said. There are several amenities at the court. Community members can scan a QR code to see step-by-step instructions on how to use the equipment. Younger noted that the court is open and free to use from dawn until dusk every day. She added that the Parks and Recreation Department plans to offer classes at the fitness court. Some of these classes will be free and some will come with a small fee. An inaugural sunrise yoga class is scheduled for 6:1

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The members of Twisted Sister are reuniting to celebrate their 50th anniversary.The "We’re Not Gonna Take It" rockers — Dee Snider, Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda — have announced they're hitting the road in 2026 in celebration…

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The agreement still needs approval from union members.

The Robin Restaurant, opened just this spring in Maplewood (7268 Manchester), has been named in The New York Times‘ 2025 list of the 50 best restaurants in the US. It’s the only restaurant to make the list in Missouri. The restaurant was opened in March by chef and owner, Alec Schingel. St. Louis Magazine reports […]

A group in Soulard is suing the owner of a historic church that caught fire two years ago.

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk is dead after being shot while speaking at a Utah university Wednesday.

If the remapping plan is successful, Missouri would have a 7-1 split between Republican and Democratic members in the U.S. House.

Today on TAP: We could see much tougher terms for a budget deal, including letting Trump’s Republicans take the fall for a government shutdown.

Expert foreign workers are key to setting up new factories in the U.S. An ICE raid targeting them could hurt efforts to ramp up American manufacturing.

A new trailer has just dropped for the upcoming docuseries Into The Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal, which delves into the world of heavy metal.According to the description, the series “explores the…

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