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ROXANA – Phillips 66 has opened two scholarships for application – the Phillips 66 Community Advisory Panel Scholarship and the Phillips 66 Community Scholarship. Both scholarship programs are open to high school seniors in the Riverbend region. Applications are due March 1. The Phillips 66 Community Scholarship is renewable for up to $5,500 a year for a four-year institution or $1,500 per year for a community college/technical school. Recipients are also guaranteed an internship interview (four-year institution) or a full-time position (craft/trade school) if they meet the minimum GPA requirements and are interested in a relevant field. The Community Scholarship program awards 66 scholarships to high school seniors who are members of Boys & Girls Club programs in Phillips 66 communities. “We are excited to work with the Boys & Girls Club of Alton and the Boys & Girls Club of Bethalto on this program,” says Melissa Erker, Director of Government & Community

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The crash was at Highway 161 and Carlyle Avenue.

ROXANA - Rusty Wheat is a one-man “chain gang” , but because of him, more people are talking about ways to keep the roads clean. Wheat’s environmental advocacy work has been a big push toward litter cleanup in the area. In the past year, Madison County introduced an Adopt-a-Highway program and allocated $200,000 towards environmental clean-up efforts. Madison County and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) have also installed signs that warn of penalties for littering, and the Roxana Police Department has already issued two citations following the signs’ installation. “I will do anything and everything I can,” Wheat said. “I get out there and pick up trash on the hottest days. When it’s snowing out there, I’ll be out there picking up trash so people can see me and say, ‘Man, that guy’s an idiot. What’s he doing?’ But it draws attention to the issue.” Madison County’s

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School district leaders say they won’t back off plans to buy the multi-million dollar property despite interest from retail developers.

More than 70 years after workers first realized barrels of radioactive waste risked contaminating Coldwater Creek, the federal government has started work to put up signs warning residents. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement Monday that it was working with the Environmental Protection Agency to add signs along the creek to help it monitor areas “that may pose a risk if disturbed.” Coldwater Creek has been contaminated for decades with radioactive waste left over from the World…

Here's when Ruby Leigh plans to release her debut album, which will include original songs and some of her fan-favorite "The Voice" covers.

In the medical industry, the goal is increasingly straightforward: Get bigger. Or else. Consider, for example, the merger of Kansas City’s St. Luke’s Health System with St. Louis-based BJC Health System. When the deal closed Jan. 2, the cross-state neighbors had created one of the country’s largest nonprofit health care systems, with 24 hospitals, 44,000 […]

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Some city leaders had an easier time than others at last night’s public safety town hall. The event, which went down at the Urban League and was so packed as to require multiple overflow rooms, saw six of the City of St. Louis’ top elected leaders answer pre-selected questions from the public in a conversation (of sorts) moderated by Ward 10 Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard.

But the out-of-town businessman behind the effort said on Monday he won't back down. And it’s not clear city officials can stop him.

Police believe this is an ongoing homicide investigation.

The victim is 17-year-old Jaimarcus McDaniel.

Early last year new journalism outlet named “The Messenger” launched to great fanfare. The brainchild of former The Hill owner Jimmy Finkelstein, the new news empire launched with $50 million in backing and a lot of chatter about how it was going to revolutionize U.S. journalism. Finkelstein claimed he wanted to build “an alternative to a national […]

More than 1,200 Alaska Airlines and United Airlines flights have been canceled across the U.S. this week after a 737 Max 9 jet lost a piece of its fuselage midflight.

Denali Water Solutions has sued to allow it to resume using a storage lagoon in Randolph County.

A Texas-based investment advisor cost clients tens of millions of dollars in what authorities are calling one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the history of eastern Missouri.

She says the owners of the business did not do enough to protect her son and other customers from violence at the store, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

The battery maker will lease 41,000 square feet at Forysth Boulevard and Maryland Avenue, roughly half the space it has occupied at its longtime headquarters in Town and Country.

Three Belleville firefighters were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after their fire truck was involved in a crash and flipped onto its side.