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A federal judge has sentenced a former St. Louis mailman to five years of probation for stealing checks from the mail.

From The Telegraph: A $5.4 million investment in airfield improvements at the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia Heights was announced Thursday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation. The money will be used to improve safety, reliability and efficiency at the airport while boosting its business and global competitiveness. The airport […]

Florissant Receives Silver Shovel Award From Spire For Pipeline Safety Mayor Lowery has announced that the city of Florissant has earned the Silver Shovel Award from the Spire Gas Company. This honor will be awarded to the City of Florissant for their commitment to natural gas pipeline awareness and safe digging. The award will be […]

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From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  A stretch of the Route 66 shared-use path along the west side of Illinois 157 in Edwardsville is getting $940,800 in support from the State of Illinois. Glen Carbon will receive $967,568 in funds for a shared-use path. In addition, a trail project connecting CA Henning Elementary to Triad High School […]

Authorities on Monday charged a man with shooting another man in the garage of the Plaza Frontenac shopping center Friday afternoon.

Cole McWard, born and raised in Fenton, made his NHL debut with the Vancouver Canucks last week.

Caryn Dugan is teaming up with Dr. Jim Loomis to create a new YouTube series named 'The Doc and Chef.' 

Police said the fire started in the kitchen of the home on South Laclede Station Road.

Fewer homes are selling in St. Louis city and county, but prices continue to climb.

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The latest apartment complex in The Streets of St. Charles mixed-use development started leasing last week and will finish construction in the next few months. The 245-unit Chapter at The Streets apartment complex, from St. Louis-based developer CRG, is under construction on a 2.2-acre site in The Streets of St. […]

by John Gaal, EdD, director of worker wellness, Missouri Works Initiative Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum will be carrying the Worker […]

For some reason I decided to torture myself and read yesterday's New York Times focus group with twelve people in their 70s and 80s. Here's my favorite part: Earlier, someone mentioned Dianne Feinstein, the senator from California, who has served for nearly 30 years. She just announced she’d be retiring from the Senate. Does anyone ...continue reading "Always be sure to get mad at the right people"

Jason Nelson just wants to get as close to “fairly normalized business banking” as possible. But as the owner of Swade dispensaries and Sinse Cannabis cultivation, that’s much harder than it sounds. He’s a customer at Triad Bank in St. Louis, one of the few banks in Missouri willing to work with cannabis businesses.  His […]

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EAST ST. LOUIS – In a U.S. District courtroom on Monday, a federal judge sentenced a Cahokia Heights man on Monday in U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison after he admitted to distributing methamphetamine in 2021. Carlos M. Johnson, 49, received a concurrent sentence of 87 months’ imprisonment for a separate possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance charge, and another concurrent sentence of 87 months’ imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was fined $300 and must also pay $300 in special assessments. Following his release from federal prison, Johnson must complete five years of supervised release. “Drug dealers selling harmful and dangerously addictive drugs gamble with their freedom by the decade,” said U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe. “Federal law enforcement agents will work alongside state and local partners to pursue drug distributors wherever they are located and bring them to justice.”

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From The Wall Street Journal:  Production at U.S. factories rose last year, but few things were produced at a more furious pace than factories themselves. Construction spending related to manufacturing reached $108 billion in 2022, Census Bureau data show, the highest annual total on record—more than was spent to build schools, healthcare centers or office […]

Peter Frampton’s retirement from the road didn’t last long. Back in 2019, Frampton set out on what he said would be his final tour ever, revealing that he’d been diagnosed…

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A resident of a St. Charles retirement community has been charged with shooting a security guard at the facility on Friday, according to police.