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One Dies In Fatal Two-Vehicle Traffic Crash In St. Clair County
ST. CLAIR COUNTY - The traffic accident at 2:53 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, on Interstate 64 Westbound at Milepost 4.4, had a fatality and two were transported with life-threatening injuries. This is the preliminary ISP report from the traffic crash, below: WHAT: Two-Vehicle Fatal Traffic Crash WHERE: Interstate 64 westbound at Milepost 4.4, St. Clair County WHEN: April 5, 2022, at approximately 2:53 p.m. VEHICLES: Unit 1 – Black 2012 Nissan Altima Unit 2 – Orange 2018 International Dump Truck DRIVERS : Unit 1 – A 22-year-old male from Du Quoin, IL. – Airlifted to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. Unit 2– A 64-year-old male from Belleville, IL. – was transported by ambulance to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. PASSENGER: Unit 1 – A 23-year-old female from Fairview Heights, IL - Deceased. PRELIMINARY: Preliminary investigative details indicate the following occurred: Three Illinois
Tanker truck flips in Granite City, Illinois
GRANITE CITY, Ill. - A tanker truck flipped early Wednesday morning in Granite City, Illinois, and it created a huge mess. The incident happened just before 1 a.m. on Illinois Route 3 at St. Thomas Road. Police closed the northbound lanes of the highway. It's unclear what spilled but a hazardous materials crew was called in [...]
The deadly acid refineries are reluctant to quit
Hydrofluoric acid can form a deadly cloud of gas that can travel for miles.
Land defenders face violence and repression. Clean energy could make it worse.
Human rights advocates faced hundreds of attacks last year. Opposition to mining was most dangerous.
Judas Priest canceled Massachusetts show due to Rob Halford illness; tour to resume Thursday in Canada
Judas Priest canceled their concert on Monday, April 4, at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts, because of a reported "non-[COVID] related illness," and now comes word that the cancellation…
Rollups: A Chinese Corner in Chassis and Containers
Effectively all standard containers used in global shipping are made by Chinese state-owned enterprises. The dangers of that circumstance revealed themselves during the pandemic.
Tug Life
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.
Progressives Want to Ban Trading of California Water Futures
A new bill would prevent traders, farmers, and industrial users of water from betting on price swings.
How Oligarchs Stash Money in Foreign Real Estate
The ‘laranja’ business, as seen in Iraqi Kurdistan
Missouri is flush with cash, but House leaves some money out of the state budget
The House version of the state budget now goes to the Senate for further debate.
Joe Valli of St. Louis, MO
Joe Valli of St. Louis, MO joined the Real Rock Army today
‘Poison pill’ creates headache for backers of plan to fully legalize marijuana in Missouri
Rep. Nick Schroer, of St. Charles County, amended the so-called Cannabis Freedom Act to exclude transgender women from access to no-interest loans for women- and minority-owned cannabis businesses.
Gateway to Pride Exhibit
LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or
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Feds sue southern Illinois nursing home provider alleging years of fraud
Lawsuit alleges health care provider "played a numbers game designed to bill as many patient visits as possible."
One dead in St. Clair County in crash involving IDOT dump truck, passenger car
Interstate 64 west was closed Tuesday following a fatal crash between a passenger car and an Illinois Department of Transportation dump truck.
Maplewood History: Vintage Photographs from Some of the Earliest Photography Studios in St. Louis
More images from the collection of Emma Beauvais Thomas Grumley. This is the tenth post in this series. For those of you who are just coming on board, all of these images are part of a collection that once belonged to young Emma Thomas, daughter of William Lyman and Catherine (Kate) Sutton Thomas. I assume […]
My middle school hang out!
Missouri caseworkers are critically overworked, new Children’s Division chief tells lawmakers
Filling the child welfare division’s hundreds of vacancies, the director said, would only start to address the workload issue.