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The new initiative, from the Serving Our Communities Foundation, will support a range of food-industry workers and consumers from field to shelf.

Dead & Company has been raising money for charity throughout their Final Tour, and now that it’s over, the totals are in — and they’re quite impressive.  According to the voting rights…

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A federal judge sentenced a man to more than 10 years in prison for orchestrating an armored car robbery last spring.

After a four-plus-year hiatus, the AFL is relaunching under a new ownership group in hopes to return to action, the organization announced in February.

Earlier today I posted a chart showing that in-person classes were canceled at higher rates for poor kids compared to richer kids during the early days of the COVID pandemic. The same was true for Black vs. white students and for students with high-school educated parents. My assumption, naturally, was that this all happened for ...continue reading "Black parents preferred school closures during the pandemic. White parents didn’t."

Authorities have charged a 25-year-old Florissant man with murder in connection with the June shooting death of a another man in the city's Kingsway East neighborhood.

A 19-year-old who police are describing as a "person of interest" in the killing of Dogtown gas station employee early this morning escaped from custody. Police say that Jataveion Scott was last seen in the Peabody-Darst Webbe neighborhood just east of Lafayette Square, running through the Peabody Housing Complex with his hands cuffed behind his back. He was not wearing any shoes.

The FIFA Women's World Cup begins this week, as the United States Women's National Team pursues its fifth title.

ALTON/GODFREY - The North Alton-Godfrey Business Council has exciting plans for business owners and community members. The Council is a nonprofit volunteer organization made up of business owners, education and healthcare entities, individual members and more throughout the Riverbend region. They meet every month to discuss community development initiatives, and there are several in the works. “It’s community, and that’s what we try to promote,” Zeke Jabusch, the council’s president, said. “We try to feature good speakers, and we try to feature all the members in terms of allowing them to present to our membership who they are and what they do and how they got involved and what they’re doing in terms of perpetuating their own business. That’s what it’s all about.” The organization started in 1945 as a collaboration between North Alton business owners. Jabusch, who became involved in the 1990s, helped expand the

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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Police (ISP) is targeting vehicle theft, hijacking, and related violence crimes using a $10 million Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council grant from the Illinois Secretary of State. “The Illinois State Police is focusing on solving and stopping vehicular theft and hijacking crimes using an increased patrol presence, air operations support, automated license plate readers, investigations, and forensic services,” said ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly. From April through June 2023, ISP missions resulted in the following: Vehicles recovered – stolen and/or hijacked 204 Stolen vehicle arrests 32 Hijacked vehicle arrests 3 Firearms seized as a result of stolen/hijacked vehicle recovery 12 Missions targeting stolen/hijacked vehicle recovery and related violent

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, along with 18 other Republican attorneys  general, opposes a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would help protect abortion patients from prosecution. In April, the Biden administration proposed a change to medical privacy laws in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision last June. The rule would bar health care providers and insurance companies from sharing records relating to reproductive health care in states where the care is legal.

On July 8, 113 costumed singers belted out the melody to Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” in a choreographed, frenetic performance that ultimately won gold at the International Barbershop Harmony Society Convention — the fifth championship for the St. Charles-based Ambassadors of Harmony barbershop chorus. The chorus’ co-directors, Jim Henry and Jonny Moroni, recount how they planned and pulled together for the competition, and the enduring popularity of barbershop chorus.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- One of the region's largest 4th of July celebrations was postponed in June due to severe weather. A representative from St. Louis County now says that it will now take place on Friday, July 21. “Our Parks and Recreation employees did an excellent job keeping attendees safe when the JB [...]

A legal showdown between a pair of Republican statewide elected officials found its way to the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the judges heard arguments over whether a behind-the-scenes push to increase the cost of an abortion-rights initiative petition was illegal.  Attorney General Andrew Bailey is defending his unprecedented decision to reject a fiscal […]

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Last week, we promised an upcoming episode featuring a conversation with Cory Doctorow — and that conversation has been recorded and is arriving next week! But we decided to take a brief intermission this week, since things in the social media landscape are changing so quickly. Mike recently appeared on The Neoliberal Podcast with Jeremiah […]

A landmark criminal justice reform that eliminates cash bail in Illinois is constitutional, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, paving the way for the change to take effect Sept. 18. The 5-2 decision – handed down on partisan lines – means that an individual’s wealth will no longer play a role in whether they are incarcerated while awaiting trial. Judges can still order someone to be detained as they await trial, but the new system will be based on an offender’s level of risk of reoffending…