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CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced that with the holidays approaching, data indicate that the impact of respiratory viruses is being felt across the state with 44 counties now at an elevated level for COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to the CDC’s national COVID Data Tracker , as of the week ending November 25. COVID-19 hospitalization data indicate that 39 counties are at medium level and five are at high level, while statewide, there were 1,039 new hospitalizations reported, an increase of 20% over the previous week. Data also show that broad acute respiratory hospitalizations are increasing across Illinois including COVID-19, flu and RSV. IDPH officials are especially concerned about pediatric ICU (PICU) capacity which is limited in many areas of the state. Additionally, IDPH announced today that it is launching a new, weekly Infectious Respiratory Disease Surveillance Dashboard that will be updated weekly on Fridays after

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Funeral services for Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan took place Friday, December 8, in Tipperary, Ireland, and featured performances of the late rocker’s music, as well as readings by such famous names as U2's Bono and Johnny Depp.  According…

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The entertainment experience opened this month in Chesterfield’s The District.

Police say a toddler died Saturday night after arriving at a hospital unresponsive and bruised.

For many, many years we’ve been calling on companies to enable end-to-end encryption by default on any messaging/communications tools. It’s important to recognize that doing so correctly is difficult, but not impossible (similarly, it’s important to recognize that doing so poorly is dangerous, as it will lead people to believe their communications are secure when […]

This is getting tiresome. The New York Times tells us today that Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, has apologized for her congressional testimony earlier this week. Here's their summary: Asked during Tuesday’s hearing whether urging the genocide of the Jewish people amounted to defying Harvard policies against bullying and harassment, Dr. Gay replied, “It ...continue reading "Harvard’s president apologizes for being right"

Charlie has been amping up the cuteness lately. Maybe he's having his second childhood a little early? In this picture he's up on the balcony keeping an eye on his domain as he rolls around for the camera.

Today on TAP: One more face of the creeping commercialism of higher education

ST. LOUIS -- Did you get all of your Christmas shopping done yet? What do you get someone who is hard to shop for? Well, FOX 2 Facebook fans came up with a great list of gifts for people in the St. Louis area from many local businesses. List of top St. Louis stocking stuffers [...]

A 33-year-old man is accused of stabbing a Richmond Heights Panda Express worker over not getting a refund for a free meal.

ALTON: State's Attorney Tom Haine has filed for re-election in 2024, and will be running unopposed in the Republican primary. “Thank you to all those who have supported our efforts to strengthen our justice system these past few years,” said Haine. “We are proud of what we have accomplished in the fight against crime, but there is so much more we want to do. Our positive momentum needs to continue so our businesses, families, and neighborhoods can truly flourish in a safe environment. That is why I'm running for re-election: to keep justice working." Here are a few highlights of Haine’s administration since taking office in 2020: We defended the rule of law by rejecting prosecutions in Madison County based on the Governor’s COVID executive orders, which contained no legal basis to criminalize the free and lawful daily actions of our citizens. We restarted prosecutions after the COVID shutdown, secured convictions in major murder cases

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Denali Water Solutions, an Arkansas-based company, says it is providing a valuable service for Missouri’s meatpacking industry.

Here's an odd thing. Several people suggested that Bard had a hard time with its fun facts about me because, after all, there are multiple Kevin Drums and it can't reliably know which one I was asking about. In fact, LinkedIn lists 20 Kevin Drums! That seems like a lot. I was curious about one ...continue reading "How many Kevin Drums are there, anyway?"

More fans are discovering Tom Petty’s “Love Is A Long Road" thanks to Grand Theft Auto. The song, from Petty’s 1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever, is featured in the trailer for Grand Theft…

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Lamont Cambell, who spent more than a decade in custody after being convicted of murder, filed suit Monday against the city of St. Louis and multiple detectives who worked on his case.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden's son intensifies against the backdrop of the 2024 election. The new charges filed Thursday — three felonies and six misdemeanors — are in addition to federal firearms charges in [...]

EDWARDSVILLE — A jury in federal court returned a verdict Thursday in favor of Madison County in a civil lawsuit stemming from the 2018 arrest of an armed and suicidal motorist. The traffic stop happened on Sept. 11, 2018. The Plaintiff filed a lawsuit in 2019. On Thursday, the jury seated in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois deliberated less than two hours before returning a unanimous verdict in favor of Madison County and two sheriff’s deputies. The plaintiff had alleged that his rights were violated by the deputies’ actions. The following facts were revealed at trial: Police received a report that the plaintiff (who was a concealed-carry card holder known to have many firearms and a trained fighter in mixed martial arts) was in a mental-health crisis, was suicidal, likely armed with a firearm, and mobile in a vehicle. The plaintiff was located by sheriff’s deputies after statewide alerts were issued with this information. After stopping

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