EDWARDSVILLE – Metro-East Lutheran High School’s scholar bowl team defeated teams from high schools across Southern Illinois to win the championship of a televised game show tournament produced by PBS. MELHS won the 2023 Scholastic Hi-Q tournament in a match the team played in the fall but which was only recently released by PBS station WSIU Television. MELHS defeated Calloway County High School by a score of 655 to 455 to win the tournament. Calloway was the previous Hi-Q champion, having won the tournament in 2022. Thirty-two teams from high schools across southern Illinois competed in Scholastic Hi-Q, an academics-based game show that has been produced by WSIU Television in Carbondale since 1985. All the episodes of this year’s tournament are available for viewing on the PBS website ( https://www.pbs.org/show/scholastic-hi-q/ ). “Winning Scholastic Hi-Q in only our second year competing in it was a great way to start the season for us and really set the
The UK government still hopes to bend the internet to its will, but it’s constantly finding out it won’t be as easy as just declaring a bunch of stuff illegal. Tech companies from all over the world would be affected by its “Online Safety Bill” (originally more proactively titled the “Online Harms Bill“). Negatively affected. […]
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Mother’s Day is usually about boring stuff like brunch and cheap flowers and shitty breakfasts in bed. But it doesn’t have to be such a snoozefest. Check out the event being hosted this weekend at the Country Rock Cabaret:
The St. Louis Blues needed to match four numbers in the NHL Draft lottery to win the first pick of this year's draft, one expected to be used on 17-year-old prospect Connor Bedard, considered a generational talent by many NHL scouts. They fell just one number short.
The traditional Arbor Day celebration took place on Friday, April 28 at Sunset Park. At the celebration was the director of Parks & Recreation Cheryl Thompson-Stimage, Park Superintendent Kevin Green, his Foreman Dave Klaus and members of the Gardeners Club of Florissant who have for many years done an outstanding job for the community and […]
From The Electrical Worker Online: Young workers are entering a workforce that is still recovering from the pandemic while also dealing with high inflation and rampant income inequality. There is no shortage of economic anxiety. While the circumstances may be new, the core issue — how to get a good-paying job with benefits that will […]
Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 25-year-old man with murder after they say he killed a 62-year-old man, wrapped the man in plastic, and dumped his body just north of downtown St. Louis last month.
Carl Phillips, a celebrated poet and professor of English at Washington University, was awarded the prize for "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020."
Brian Clay admitted to shooting Loreal Goode in front of her daughter when she refused to give him $36 and drive him to a pawn shop to get back his TV.
From St. Louis Business Journal: A major big-box retailer new to the St. Louis market has proposed its second store in the region, even before the first opens. Meijer, a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based retailer that operates supercenter stores carrying general merchandise and groceries, submitted plans to the city of O’Fallon, Illinois, for a new store, […]
From Bloomberg: There are at least a billion parking spaces in the US, an expanse of asphalt that would cover an area twice the size of Connecticut. And yet, finding a good place to park — preferably free, and within a few feet of your destination — can still feel like an impossible quest. Available […]
O’FALLON – HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit upholding the standard of patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. This national distinction celebrates St. Elizabeth’s Hospital’s achievements in prioritizing patient safety by protecting patients from preventable harm and errors. The new grades reflect performance primarily during the height of the pandemic. "Our commitment to patient safety is a top priority,” said Dr. Dennis Szurkus Jr., chief medical officer at HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. “Our safety grade achievements are a testament to the high-level of quality care provided to our patients and the dedication of our care teams to ongoing safety improvement processes. I am so proud of our colleagues and medical staff for their outstanding performance.” The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization,
More than 9 million children faced hunger in 2021. That’s 1 in 8 kids at risk for hunger” (Child hunger, n.d.). Throughout development, kids who miss meals are consistently more likely to repeat a grade in elementary school, experience developmental impairments with language and motor skills, and have more social and behavioral problems (Child hunger, n.d.) Children spend most of their waking time at school. Thus, the eating behaviors of children are largely dependent on the quality and availability of food at schools, in addition to the scheduling of meal times. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program(SBP) are federally-funded programs meant to address malnourished children in the United States. While seemingly sufficient to meet the needs of our nation’s children, these programs are failing to address many key issues that may prevent the appropriate and intended distribution of free and reduced meals. These key issues include negative
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