EAST ST. LOUIS - A large group of 158 individuals conducted a Tuesday morning search for missing person Joshua Amos of Granite City near where he was last spotted on July 18, 2022. Josh was last seen on March 23, 2023, in the East St. Louis area. He was viewed in a surveillance video at Metro Link in East St. Louis and last at EJ Trucking in the 1500 block of Lincoln Avenue in the city. Josh was 32 years of age when he went missing and was 5-foot-11, 190 pounds in size. Josh's photograph and information and where to call if you have any information about him are below. Searchers covered heavily wooded areas and some drainage locations in East St. Louis and also were in the 24th Street and Lincoln vicinity along with other locations. Granite City First Student donated buses to transport volunteers from World Wide Technology Raceway parking lot, the staging area for the search. Illinois State Police, St. Clair County Strike Force 4, Hollywood Heights Fire Department, and MABAS-Illinois
The interior design, including a wall covering by Gracie and fabrics by Brunschwig & Fils, Scalamandre, Thibaut and more, marries maximalist decor with class Southern Colonial-style architecture.
GODFREY - If Beth Smilack’s American Sign Language class isn’t using their hands to sign, they’re probably playing air guitar. Lewis and Clark Community College (LCCC) sponsors a College for Kids program every summer, which offers a series of weeklong classes in a variety of subjects to different age groups. When they contacted Smilack and asked her to teach a course on American Sign Language (ASL), she immediately said yes. “It’s important because children who are going to school with others, maybe Deaf children, they could possibly rely on an interpreter. But it would just be so much better if they were able to actually communicate with their friends in their same language,” Smilack said. “It just gives them another option to be able to connect with somebody.” This week’s class is for kids aged 7–10, and it’s off to a great start. Next week, ages 11–15 will be able to try their hand (literally) at sign language.
A year-long renovation of the 100-year-old building included new walls, floors, ceilings, and the addition of a large skylight in the middle of the store.
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…
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.
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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