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Crews with the St. Louis Water Division were out Sunday to fix new main breaks from over the weekend, the latest of which happened near Tower Grove Park.

The You Paid For It team successfully helped a St. Louis woman get her towed vehicle back.

The St. Louis Fed's GDP Nowcast is forecasting that GDP growth in Q2 will be 0.28%. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is forecasting growth of 2.1%. Big difference! So who's right? No offense to the St. Louis folks, but it looks like the Atlanta forecast has a considerably better recent track record. GDP growth in Q2 ...continue reading "Atlanta victorious in dueling GDP forecasts"

Dozens of people ages 12 to 22 got their hearts screened Sunday at the YMCA in Edwardsville.

Find and plan your next highly rated free activity in Illinois on Tripadvisor, as compiled by Stacker.

After a few morning showers, Sunday turned out pretty nice. Plenty of sunshine and lower humidity made for a nice July day.

ROXANA - Evan Wells, a senior-to-be running back for Roxana High's Football Team, will be a key contributor this coming season as the Shells look to go farther in the IHSA playoffs. Wells is a Midwest Members Credit Union Male Athlete of the Month for the Shells. The Shells went 7-4 this past season and qualified for the Class 3A playoffs, defeating Hillsboro in the first round before falling in the second round to Fairbury Prairie Central. Wells ran for 874 yards and 10 touchdowns, breaking into triple figures four times in the season, and also caught 10 passes for 115 yards and another touchdown in helping the Shells to their successful season. At a seven-on-seven passing competition recently at Charlie Raich Field in Roxana, Wells felt that things were going well on that night and both he and his teammates were having fun. "They're going pretty good," Wells said in an interview during the competition. "We're able to expand our offense, keep it outside of tackles, just having

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Over at the Washington Post, Heather Long says, "If we avoid a recession, we can thank Black and Hispanic workers." I was all set to scoff, but she's right. Here's the basic employment pictire: White workers have only barely recovered their pre-pandemic employment levels while nonwhite workers are all 10-13% higher. But a better metric ...continue reading "Nonwhite workers are powering the economy back to work"

Stacker investigated which counties in Illinois have the most bridges in dire need of repair using data from the Federal Highway Administration.