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The company expects to exceed its goal this year of $1.5 billion in buy-backs.

Police said the man abandoned a woman's corpse after he found her dead in his spare bedroom.

Today on TAP: Let’s not confuse the corporate interest with worker interests.

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Missouri, Indiana and Montana are the only states that allow judges to sentence people to die. Montana hasn’t executed anybody since 2006.

Police say a man dumped a woman's body in the woods after discovering that she had died in his home.

Allegations that Scotland County Hospital fired a chief executive officer during an illegal closed meeting aren’t enough to make a case that there was a conspiracy against the officer, attorneys for the hospital argued Wednesday. Statements made in that August 2022 meeting are protected because they were among officials of the hospital, attorney Andrew Kinghorn […]

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Once Elton John finished his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, he said he'd never go on the road again, but he didn't rule out the occasional one-off performance. Well, he's…

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A plan long in the works to convert the Chesterfield Mall site into more than $2 billion of new mixed-use development received final approval from city officials Tuesday night.

JERSEY - Jersey County Veterans’ Assistance Commission Superintendent Greg Breden announced today that the Gold Star Mothers Day ceremony will be on Sunday, September 24, 2023, at the Jersey County Courthouse in Jerseyville. The ceremony will be conducted at the Jersey County War Memorial starting at 2 p.m. The ceremony is held each year on the last Sunday in September, National Gold Star Mothers Day. Breden said the ceremony is to respect the mothers and families who lost their U.S. Armed Forces members' sons and daughters who died in battle or in support of certain military activities. "The local Marine Corps League Robert Windle Detachment #1031 will host the ceremony," he said. "If you are a Gold Star Mother or Family and plan on attending, please call 618-946-2834 and leave your R.S.V.P. by September 15, 2023. If no answer please leave a message. You need not be a Jersey County resident to attend. We encourage the public to attend to show support for the families."

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For someone who’s a lawyer, a former prosecutor, a former mayor, and a former presidential confidant, Rudy Giuliani sure doesn’t seem to know his way around a lawsuit. It’s perhaps that last thing on that list that’s gotten him in the most trouble. Rather than recognize the peaceful transition of power that followed the 2020 […]

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GODFREY - The Village of Godfrey may be considering a new study to gauge interest in a hotel opening in the village following conversations between village officials, a realtor, hotel company representatives, and more. Economic Development Director Jim Mager said at Tuesday’s Finance Committee meeting that Godfrey is missing out on revenue from visitors having to stay overnight in Alton or elsewhere - but the first step in bringing a hotel to Godfrey would be to conduct a new hotel study, since the last one was conducted in 2017. “We ought to maybe reconsider doing an updated study,” Mager said. “In 2017, we had just set up the Business District, but now we are in a position that if we did come up with a positive hotel study, that we certainly could be aggressive in improvement and also incentivizing if we had to. “I think it would be a good idea, given the wonderful park that we have, we now have some degree of athletic tourism. The shame of it

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Over at Mother Jones, we have this headline today: The Real Crisis Driving America’s Teacher Shortage The article describes a real problem: in some areas of the country, housing is so expensive that teachers can't afford a place to live. But the premise is still wrong. There's no overall teacher shortage in the US: This ...continue reading "What teacher shortage?"

With a mission to create green jobs and bring green-energy loans to the poor, BlocPower has gained powerful backers in tech, finance, and government. Where are the results?