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Webster's leaders received pay raises despite years of declining revenue and enrollment. The university lost more than $128 million over the past decade.

An explosion and fire at a soybean processing facility in Illinois injured eight employees over the weekend and sent a tower of smoke into the air, officials said Monday.

Purple, gold, terracotta, and more, fall's favorite flower shows off the season's colors at garden centers from the city to the county.

These teams are facing each other off the field to "Tackle Hunger."

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. Happy Labor Day to all — and especially all those who don’t get holidays like this off.

Aerosmith is currently on their Peace Out final tour, and they're throwing some surprises into their set for fans. According to setlist.fm, at the band’s Friday, September 9, show at UBS Arena in…

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America is getting older [1], and American drivers are getting way older [2, Figure below]. This seachange in the demographics of those operating motor vehicles is incredibly important (and, I would argue, underconsidered in the urbanist world). Older adults driving in complex environments (e.g. complicated traffic patterns, lane changes, turns, and congestion) have a much […]

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Police said the man crashed his car and then was hit by another car while retrieving things from his vehicle.

So, I already wrote a long post walking through the mostly very good 5th Circuit ruling in the Missouri v. Biden case, in which the court threw out most of the district court judge’s injunction against the government communicating with social media companies and academics. The end result is a very good, straightforward ruling on […]

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EDWARDSVILLE - An Art Deco building on the corner of South Main and Park Street in Edwardsville is officially the new home of the Bank of Madison County after a ribbon-cutting ceremony held last weekend. Paul Abert, Market President of the Bank of Madison County, said he’s a lifelong Edwardsville native and SIUE alum who’s been in banking since 1983, and is proud to be serving his hometown community. “This was an opportunity for me to start Bank of Madison County brand new here, so being in hometown on Main Street, you couldn’t ask for more,” Abert said. Bank of Madison County is a commercial and retail bank which services businesses and individual customers/clients. Abert said the company is breathing new life into the historic building on Main Street and the “lost art” of community banking. “We specialize in what is quite an often overused term of ‘community banking.’ I was fortunate in my early career to learn

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ALTON – Alton Little Theater will be featuring a collection of the most interesting beers and brews in alignment with the 90 th season opening production Beer For Breakfast running from September 15 th through the 24 th . Our goal when patrons, new or returning, come to the ALT Showplace is to experience pure enjoyment away from the cares of the world for a few hours. We love celebrating our local brew masters and the visitors who generate enthusiasm in Alton, where the great River meets the great Prairie, and the living is just fine at ALT! At the Showplace, we take seriously the job of representing our region with love and pride for 90 years! So, come one, come all and checkout the fun to be had at ALT. Come check out a great comedy show, a beautiful theater, a stellar staff, and the best beer in town (even a breakfast stout to commemorate the show title Beer For Breakfast .) Please call 618-462-3205 for tickets or visit altonlitletheater.org .

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EDWARDSVILLE - These are three additional Edwardsville Arts Fair participant profiles, today featuring work from Edwardsville's own Tana Wallace. The Edwardsville Art Fair is Sept. 22-Sept. 24. Artist #1 Name: Tana Wallace Location: Edwardsville Medium: Emerging Artist Artist's Statement: "As an art educator, I see many moments of success and failure, pride, dedication, conflict, honesty, and joy, to name a few. These moments inspire my communication through art as a teacher and creator. Creating my own art has been more present in my life recently as an outlet, and as a means to appreciate all the beauty around me, however ordinary it may be." Artist #2 Name: Nick Nihira Location: Hillsboro, MO Medium: Works on Paper Artist's Statement: "All of my work is hand drawn and then hand pulled as screen prints. My images usually have a little of a dark, comedic twist and deal with themes of rural vs. urban living, solitude, and technology." Artist #3 Name:

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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri jury has awarded $745 million to the parents of a young woman killed on a sidewalk outside an urgent care center by a driver who huffed nitrous oxide canisters right before the accident. The verdict was reached Friday in the lawsuit brought by the parents of Marissa Politte, 25, [...]