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Garber: “Good Things Come to Those Who Wait”

2 years 6 months ago
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Don Garber has taken in plenty of new teams’ home openers during his time as Major Legaue Soccer commissioner. Since he assumed office in 1999, the league has grown from 10 teams to 30. Garber said he’s never seen anything quite like Saturday night’s St. Louis City SC inaugural home game at […]
Shruthi Beedu

Development of Former Pruitt-Igoe Site Advances

2 years 6 months ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: One of the first major construction projects around the perimeter of the under-construction National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency took a major step forward Wednesday after a city board voted to approve variances for the construction of an office building and hotel. The projects are proposed on the site of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing […]
Shruthi Beedu

Crash closes southbound I-55 near Collinsville

2 years 6 months ago
Update: The crash has been cleared and all lanes are open. COLLINSVILLE, Ill. -- A major crash near Collinsville has shut down all I-55/70 southbound lanes. Illinois State Police are working the scene and tell us the crash involves two cars and a semi truck. Troopers say a car ran into the median running into [...]
Amelia Mugavero

Elon Musk’s Vision Of Trust & Safety: Neither Safe Nor Trustworthy

2 years 6 months ago
Even as Elon first made his bid for Twitter, we highlighted just how little he understood about content moderation and trust & safety. And, that really matters, because, as Nilay Patel pointed out, managing trust & safety basically is the core business of a social media company: “The essential truth of every social network is […]
Mike Masnick

Rusty Black

2 years 6 months ago
State Sen. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, joins St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg to talk about a multitude of issues during the 2023 legislative session. That includes bills that would curtail the purchase of farmland by some foreign corporations and efforts to extend Medicaid to postpartum mothers.

Four Gangster Disciples Leaders Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy and Murder

2 years 6 months ago
EAST ST. LOUIS – A federal jury convicted four leaders of the Gangster Disciples on Tuesday for their participation in a years-long interstate racketeering conspiracy involving drug trafficking, witness tampering, and multiple murders. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, the four defendants were members of the Gangster Disciples, a gang with a decades-long history of lawlessness and violence. The Gangster Disciples have a presence throughout the United States, including in state and federal prisons. The gang employs a structured hierarchy, with leadership positions such as national “Board Members” and state “Governors.” As part of their efforts to maintain control of the gang, the defendants murdered two other members who opposed their regime. On May 18, 2018, Warren Griffin, aka GG, aka Big Head, 53, of Glenwood, Illinois, drove to the south side of Chicago with fellow Gangster Disciples Board Member Anthony Dobbins to murder

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The Trans Panic II

2 years 6 months ago
The Left Anchor hosts continue the discussion about the ongoing frenzy of transphobia.
Prospect Staff