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COLLINSVILLE - Legal risks can be fatal to a farm business. Understanding legal issues can dispel anxiety and help farmers realize their power to control their circumstances. University of Illinois Extension partners with Farm Commons for a four-part series on legal issues for farms. "Every farm or ranch no matter its size, location, or longevity is in a great position to build resilience," says Kathryn Pereira, Illinois Extension local foods system small farms educator. Farm Commons is a nonprofit organization that assists farmers to solve their own business law challenges in a community of support. Farm Commons Executive Director Rachel Armstrong will provide the interactive workshops, including time for questions from participants. As the founder and executive director of Farm Commons, Rachel Armstrong leads workshops for farmers nationwide and created the organization’s innovative approach to farm law risk reduction. She has authored publications on farm law matters for

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The end of the funding for the uninsured is the first casualty in a budget impasse between Congress and President Joe Biden’s administration over its request for an additional $22.5 billion for the ongoing response to the virus.

ST. LOUIS - A new $3.2 million dollar early childhood education center is opening Sunday in St. Louis. A ribbon cutting ceremony is planned later in the day. The Good Shepherd Preschool & Infant-Toddler Center is designed to host 100 children. It's funded by IFF, a community development financial institution. The 7,031 square foot state-of-the-art facility will include [...]

The football team received $1,500. The Pom Squad received $500.

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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The management change comes as Waste Connection faces driver and equipment shortages.

Hundreds of people filed into the Fieldhouse at Mineral Area College on Saturday to pay their respects to Bonne Terre police Officer Lane Burns.

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Lawyers for the family of Tyre Sampson, a rising middle school football player in St. Louis County, want to know if negligence about his size, or other factors, played a role when he fell to his death Thursday night from…

Officer Lane Burns was remembered Saturday at his funeral, which brought mourning police departments from across the country.

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Lawmaker says he initiated a meeting with marijuana lobby in effort to stop them from trying to kill his legalization bill.