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ALTON - Laura Scarborough has joined the Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau as the new Destination Sales Manager. Scarborough’s role with the Bureau will include highlighting southwest Illinois to potential domestic and international group travelers as well as attracting meetings/conferences to the six-county bureau region. “We are looking ahead to ways we can grow the region and we know group travel and meetings are areas we already have a strong presence,” Cory Jobe, President/CEO of the tourism bureau said. “Laura will help keep us front and center in group travel planning and we are excited to have her on the team.” Scarborough has been the owner of a catering company based in Columbia, MO, The Farmers Daughter. She has also worked as the community sponsorship and donation manager for Landmark Bank, and as the finance manager for the Heart of Missouri United Way, both in Columbia, MO. She most recently worked as the branch office administrator for

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ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said a suspicious package was reported Monday morning at St. Mary's High School, but the Bomb and Arson unit did not locate one during their search. Students were seen standing outside St. Mary's High School in south St. Louis at about 9:15 a.m. The school is [...]

The St. Louis Business Journal is pleased to announce the winners of its third annual Innovation in Philanthropy Awards, which honor local partnerships for going above and beyond standard philanthropic practices in new and creative ways.

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced a lawsuit against Marathon Pipe Line LLC (Marathon) alleging that the company created a substantial danger to the environment and public health and welfare when crude oil was released from a pipeline near Edwardsville, Illinois. Raoul’s lawsuit was filed in Madison County Circuit Court and includes allegations of creating a substantial danger to the environment and public health and welfare, water pollution, creating offensive conditions, open dumping and waste disposal at an improper facility. Raoul’s lawsuit alleges Marathon violated the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and endangered public health and the environment by causing or allowing a discharge of heavy crude oil to Cahokia Creek in an area that includes residential neighborhoods, commercial properties, agricultural properties, forested areas and a wetland. “Marathon’s significant oil spill has created a public health risk by exposing

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the court of public opinion — such as the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for …

As a fight over who can regulate industrial hog and cattle operations awaits action by the Missouri Supreme Court, counties that sought more stringent protections against them wait in limbo.  The Missouri Supreme Court is expected to hear an appeal by county commissioners who sought to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, after a […]

The post As CAFO lawsuit heads to Missouri Supreme Court, counties weigh options appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The Left Anchor hosts interview Corey Robin about his book on the Supreme Court justice.

Remember when the cable and broadcast industry insisted that “cord cutting” (ditching traditional cable TV subscriptions) wasn’t actually a real trend? Or how, once they finally acknowledged it was a real thing, insisted that it was just a temporary fad that would abate once Millennials started having babies? Years later and amazingly enough the very […]

A preliminary investigation into the death of a former Missouri state representative from the St. Louis area has found no evidence of wrongdoing or foul play and police are now awaiting a final toxicology report before taking any further steps.

A conversation with the viz wiz as he prepares to wind down his COVID-19 tracking project.

Desiree Coleman-Fry was selected for the inaugural class of LinkedIn's Creator Accelerator Program and started a conversation series, Women Work Well, to foster a community for working moms.

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Korri Thomas went from struggling to run more than a few feet to competing in marathons.

A conversation with Laumeier Cultural Thinker in Residence Shelly Goebl-Parker

The National Weather Service released its spring outlook this week.

Group wants to bring ranked choice voting to the state as a way to tamp down partisanship.

ALTON - The Alton Police is investigating a double stabbing that occurred at about 8:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 20, 2022, in the 300 block of Lindenwood Boulevard in Alton. The Alton Police Department began receiving several reports of multiple people fighting in that area and responded. "Preliminary investigation revealed that there were a group of people socializing at a resident's house in the 300 block of Lindenwood Boulevard," Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido said. "While socializing, a physical fight ensued and during that fight, two people were stabbed. "The two people who were stabbed were initially transported to Alton area hospitals but eventually transported to a St. Louis area hospital." The chief said this was not a random act of violence and the subjects involved had a general familiarization with each other. This incident is being investigated by the Alton Police Department Criminal Investigations Division.

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