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In the St. Louis area 70% of children in foster care identify as Black but only 13% of foster parents identify the same. While interracial foster and adoptive homes can be healthy and safe, providing a racially competent household increases positive outcomes for children. Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition is bringing back a program that hopes to recruit more Black families.

Olivette native and soccer standout Becky Sauerbrunn has been a fixture on the U.S. Women’s National Team for more than a dozen years. She’s been part of two World Cup-winning teams and has earned two Olympic medals. STLPR’s Jeremy D. Goodwin talked with Sauerbrunn about equal pay, trans rights and an MLS team coming to St. Louis. The USWNT plays the Republic of Ireland in an international friendly at CityPark Tuesday night.

The space includes a covered outdoor living and dining area, an outdoor kitchen, an open concept indoor living room/kitchen, a guest bath off the pool area, a guest suite, and a laundry room.

The exact schedule has not been set, so tickets are not on sale yet.

Ladbrokes, the London gambling house where bets can be placed on anything from badminton matches to whether Ron DeSantis will be elected vice president in 2024, isn’t offering odds on Missouri adopting sports betting. But the top Republican and Democrat in the state Senate agreed last week that the chances are slim with only five weeks remaining in this year’s session. That pessimistic assessment was made the morning after the chamber spent eight hours arguing about how and whether to expand…

EDWARDSVILLE - On Saturday, April 1, 2023, Mathis, Marifian & Richter, Ltd., (MM&R) shareholder Deanna L. Litzenburg, spoke at the Illinois State Bar Association Allerton Conference 2023 held in Champaign, Illinois at the I-Hotel & Conference Center. This year’s conference, presented by the ISBA Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council, was titled “Technology and the Courts: Transforming the Delivery of Justice” and explored hot topic issues impacting the civil practice and procedure area. The Allerton Conference is an invitation-only event sponsored by the Illinois State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Company. This year, Mathis, Marifian & Richter, Ltd., (MM&R) also served as a sponsor for the conference. While attendees receive CLE credit, the Civil Practice & Procedure Section Council has always thought of the conference as a “think tank” of sorts where new ideas are examined and debated. Attendees and speakers included law professors, practitioners,

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EDWARDSVILLE – State Senator Erica Harriss (56 th -Glen Carbon) is announcing a new district office location in downtown Edwardsville, closing the former office in Maryville immediately. “Since taking office, my team and I have always had an open mind about what a new office location would look like for the district,” said Senator Harriss. “After months of looking, we have found an easily accessible location that gives us a clear presence in the area we serve and it’s ADA accessible which is incredibly important to the constituents we serve.” Senator Harriss says the new office located at 120 North Main Street, Suite 1B, Edwardsville, will serve as a space to provide constituent services to residents throughout the district which includes both Madison and St. Clair counties. “We will spend part of the week moving but should have the new location up and running by Thursday,” said Senator Harriss. “We have already met so many grea

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EDWARDSVILLE — The State’s Attorneys of 32 counties have joined Madison County State’s Attorney Thomas A. Haine in a brief he filed with the Illinois Supreme Court, seeking to overturn the state’s ban on certain types of weapons. The Amici Curiae brief, also known as a “friend of the court” brief, asks the Supreme Court to strike down the state’s so-called Assault Weapons Ban. The legislature passed the ban in January during a lame-duck session, and Gov. JB Pritzker signed it into law. Haine is the lead attorney for the Amici Curiae brief. The other State’s Attorneys joining him in the brief represent the following counties: Brown, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark, Clinton, Edwards, Effingham, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Macon, Marion, Mercer, Monroe, Ogle, Perry, Pulaski, Randolph, Schuyler, Union, Vermilion, Warren, Washington, Wayne and White. In its conclusion, Haine’s

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Since Dawes’ 2009 debut, singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Goldsmith has proven that the Los Angeles band craft Laurel Canyon rock and Big Pink Americana as well as anyone on the contemporary scene — so well in fact that both Jackson Browne and Robbie Robertson tapped Dawes to back them in the studio and on the road. Since then, Dawes has refined its classicist comforts but, across eight studio albums, has stretched to occupy a warm, intelligent roots-rock lane wholly its own.

Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., a sustainable fertilizer maker that has operations in St. Louis, has hired a new chief technology officer.

EDWARDSVILLE - The second annual One Day, One SIUE event is returning to the SIUE campus on April 20, 2023 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., while the 24-hour Day of Giving runs the entire day. Senior Director of Annual Giving Julie Babington said last year’s event saw more than 500 participants and over $668,000 raised, and their fundraising goal for this year is $1 million. “We were pleasantly surprised how it all turned out, we had more than 500 participants that came out to SIUE on our Quad, and it was a fun night,” Babington said. “We were hoping to get some community members and we definitely had that represented, we had a ton of our student body, faculty and staff, and then we were pleasantly surprised to see even baby strollers and pets.” This year, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the SIUE Stratton Quadrangle (also known as “The Quad”), food and live music will be available featuring the band Vote For Pedro. The event will also feature opportunities

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A previously-convicted felon from St. Louis appeared in federal court Monday and was sentenced for being caught with firearms following a police chase.

ALTON - Alton VFW Post 1308 and Cottage Hills VFW Post 7678 both have a special place in their hearts for other veterans, and Chad Sibley has organized a collection for the veterans in Rolling Fork, Miss., with the VFW in Alton, Cottage Hills, and District 12. "We are currently collecting donations for veterans of Rolling Fork, Miss., who have been recently affected by a severe tornado," Sibley said. "We are going to take the donations down there April 14-16," he said. Tornado winds reached a maximum of 170 mph, an EF4 on March 24 in Rolling Hills, Miss. The tornado ripped across 170 miles on a path of destruction. The deadline for Rolling Hills, Miss., donations is Thursday, April 13, 2023. The donations can be taken to the VFW Post 1308 in Alton and the Cottage Hills VFW. Sibley said he will travel to the National Guard Armory in Rolling Fork with the donations. Sibley said they will also spend a day or two there helping cleanup or handing whatever items they can to those who nee

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DeAndre Carter, 34, was convicted last month of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Paige Walker in July 2020.

It’s tough to be considered a trusted partner in the resistance against the Russian invasion of Ukraine if you can’t keep your most secret documents secret. No source for the embarrassing (and possibly harmful) leak has been identified, but that’s presumably what the US government hopes to find out ASAP. The Justice Department has joined […]

Staff at St. Louis Children's Hospital treated a record-setting 163 children for gunshot wounds in 2022.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup will be played for the first time in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and San Diego.

The set list for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's current tour is a hits-packed extravaganza that includes nearly every song a casual fan would want to hear, from "Dancing in the Dark"…

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