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EDWARDSVILLE - The public celebrated a Clock Tower Rededication and witnessed a time capsule opening on Saturday in Edwardsville in the 200 block of North Main Street. The City of Edwardsville's Historic Preservation Commission hosted a rededication of the Edwardsville Clock Tower - 25 years after it was built. The Clock Tower Rededication also celebrated the 100th anniversary since the historic Edwardsville National Bank Clock, which hangs at the tower, was first erected in the City. The event was well-attended by Edwardsville residents and those around the region. A time capsule that was embedded in the tower when it was built in 1998 was opened and the contents were revealed during the event, which coincides with National Preservation Month. The clock was a fixture on the Edwardsville National Bank Building at St. Louis and North Main streets for nearly 70 years. It was purchased for the newly constructed building that rose five stories into the downtown skyline in 1923. The clock

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A communications tower at Chiriaco Summit at dawn near Joshua Tree. I often stop here for gas or snacks on my way to the desert for astrophotography sessions.

A 4.5-acre property in the Central West End currently used by a nonprofit is being offered for sale, in what could be a prime redevelopment opportunity in a St. Louis neighborhood that has seen significant investment.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY - The deceased in a homicide that occurred in the 100 block of Shepley Drive has been identified as Cassandra Cole, 34 years of age, of the 200 block of Glen Garry Road in St. Louis, Missouri 63137. The male and female victims are expected to survive their injuries. St. Louis County Police Crimes Against Persons detectives continue to investigate the crime. These are the details that have been released by police so far: "At 9:04 p.m. on May 15, 2023, St. Louis County police officers from the North County Precinct responded to a call for service for a shooting in the 100 block of Shepley Drive. Arriving officers located an adult male and an adult female suffering from apparent gunshot injuries. Both were transported to area hospitals for treatment. The female victim later succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced deceased. An additional victim, an adult female, walked to a nearby residence and was transported to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening

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Its new locations include its first in Metro East, as well as the opening of a new production facility in north St. Louis that will be operational starting next week.

There have been various chapters in the new large language models (LLMs) story. First, people were amazed that systems like ChatGPT could write a sonnet about bananas in the style of Shakespeare, and in just a few seconds. Soon, though, they realized that chatbots’ replies might be grammatically correct, but they were frequently peppered with […]

Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) on Monday agreed to pay shareholders $1 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the bank of overstating its progress in cleaning up after its 2016 fake-accounts scandal. The bank’s shareholders alleged Wells Fargo and its past leadership misled them about how swiftly they were fixing the governance issues and risk-management systems that failed to prevent the bank from opening up perhaps millions of fake accounts. Reuters reports that the settlement figure…

A Johnson County, Kansas, judge decided Jackson Mahomes can have contact with three of four people listed as witnesses in his battery case.

A former North County Police Cooperative officer is charged with letting his brother beat up a person the corporal had handcuffed during a fight in November.

Today on TAP: Doctors in Philly and auto (well, actually, bus) workers in rural Georgia both go union big-time.

In 2019, the Saint Louis Zoo worked with the Urban Chestnut Brewing Company (UCBC) to make the first official beer of the zoo.

De Smet is the first Catholic high school in St. Louis to offer an inclusive program for children with intellectual disabilities.

The to-be shuttered restaurant is located within a three-mile radius of two other Lion's Choice locations, causing the area to be oversaturated and prohibiting all stores from reaching their full potential, Chief Executive Fred Burmer said.

ST. LOUIS - The future of a quo warranto case against outgoing St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner will go beyond Tuesday. Gardner just announced that she will be resigning Tuesday, nearly two weeks before she had planned to step down. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's team was in court Tuesday to accuse Circuit Attorney [...]

John Mellencamp is giving fans another taste of his upcoming album, Orpheus Descending. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just shared the second single from the record, “The Eyes of Portland.”…

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