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Caylie McElroy Is Stillwater Senior Living Granite City High Female Athlete Of Month

2 years 6 months ago
GRANITE CITY - Caylie McElroy has not only skills as an athlete, but she is an outstanding student for Granite City High School. Caylie's top sport of the season is about ready to unfold - girls soccer. She has been a three-year member of the Warriors girls soccer squad. She also played girl's golf in 2021. Caylie is the Stillwater Senior Living Female Athlete of the Month for Granite City High School. Recently, Caylie also earned the Granite City Rotary Club Student of the Month honor with Lauren Wilson. Students for that honor were chosen on the basis of academics, as well as scholastic, extracurricular, and civic honors and awards and organization membership and leadership. She is a three-year youth vocalist and a Sunday service vocalist. She is very involved in school activities from Member of Fellowship Of Christian Athletes, Renaissance Club, Spirit Club and Varsity Club.

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McDonald’s Sued For Thwarting Third Party’s Solution To Its Broken Ice Cream Machine Problem

2 years 6 months ago
The ice cream machines used by a majority of McDonald’s franchise owners are notoriously flaky. Produced by Taylor Restaurant Equipment, the machines are so unreliable even the McDonald’s corporate Twitter account has made jokes about them. This unreliability has created a (very small) cottage industry of solutions. One solution is web-based: it simply tells you […]
Tim Cushing

Centralia Man Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison On Child Porn and Sextortion Charges

2 years 6 months ago
BENTON – Bryan Flanagan, 35, of Centralia, Illinois, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison on Thursday, March 3, 2022, on two counts of distribution of child pornography and five counts of interstate communication with intent to extort. Flanagan pleaded guilty to charges in federal court on September 16, 2021. Flanagan extorted multiple minor girls online to send him sexual videos and images. Beginning in February 2020, Flanagan used fake profiles pretending to be a teenage boy on Facebook to contact multiple underage girls across the United States. Flanagan pressured and threatened his victims into sending him sexually explicit videos and images. When some victims refused to do so, Flanagan lied and told them that he was babysitting a young child and would rape or molest the child unless his online victims sent him the requested images. Flanagan distributed images of child pornography to at least two of his victims. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood,

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Centralia Man Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison On Child Porn and Sextortion Charges

2 years 6 months ago
BENTON – Bryan Flanagan, 35, of Centralia, Illinois, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison on Thursday, March 3, 2022, on two counts of distribution of child pornography and five counts of interstate communication with intent to extort. Flanagan pleaded guilty to charges in federal court on September 16, 2021. Flanagan extorted multiple minor girls online to send him sexual videos and images. Beginning in February 2020, Flanagan used fake profiles pretending to be a teenage boy on Facebook to contact multiple underage girls across the United States. Flanagan pressured and threatened his victims into sending him sexually explicit videos and images. When some victims refused to do so, Flanagan lied and told them that he was babysitting a young child and would rape or molest the child unless his online victims sent him the requested images. Flanagan distributed images of child pornography to at least two of his victims. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood,

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Basketball Player Kinsley Mouser Is Midwest Members Credit Union Female Athlete Of Month For Shells

2 years 6 months ago
ROXANA - Sophomore Kinsley Mouser was a key to her Roxana Shells girls basketball team in the 2021-2022 season. Kinsley is the Midwest Members Credit Union Roxana Female Athlete of the Month. The most important thing Kinsley thinks she has derived from playing sports is "you have to work hard for everything you want and the harder you work, the bigger the outcome." Kinsley has played basketball since about third grade she enjoys playing against girls of all age levels because she believes it improves her own game. The Roxana sophomore thanked her parents, grandparents, and sister for attending all her games and constant support. She also had only positive remarks about her coaches Brian Diskin, the head coach, and Carol Fletcher, the assistant coach. "My coaches always push me and the team to get better," she said. Coach Fletcher said Kinsley has a nice shot and advanced to the sectionals of the three-point shooting competition. Kinsley is a versatile athlete and soon she will

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St. Louis City Counselor Faces Mounting Criticism

2 years 6 months ago
UPDATES: A statement from the mayor's office is below, and Cori Bush has reiterated her stance against qualified immunity. In a rare break with Tishaura Jones' administration, civil rights activists and  politicians sharply criticized City Counselor Sheena Hamilton today in front of City Hall.…
Ryan Krull

Transportation Research Forum Annual Meeting Coming to St. Louis Next Month

2 years 6 months ago

Join transportation practitioners, researchers, academics and students for the 63rd International Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum in St. Louis, MO – the AG Coast of America – from April 7 to 9, 2022. Click here to learn more about the conference and to register! The conference is an in-person event held at the JC Penney Conference Center on the […]

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Matt Fernandes

Lunchtime Photo

2 years 6 months ago
This is the Hollywood/Vine subway station on the LA metro's Red Line, aka the B Line. The top photo is the . . . foyer? Lobby? Whatever. It's a large space with a couple of old-timey movie projectors and some art deco palm trees. The bottom photo provides a closer look at the walls as ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
Kevin Drum