Some area schools are responding to the possible tornado activity with cancellations or early dismissal. Most athletic events for the remainder of the day have been canceled or were moved to Thursday. Jersey District 100 is closing at 2:15 p.m. today. Lewis and Clark Community College closed early at 1 p.m. Alton School District 11 dismissed classes early this afternoon. Edwardsville High School said due to the forecasted timing of severe weather, including high winds, tornadic activity, and possible hail, all schools will be dismissed 30 minutes early. Due to the threat of severe weather at game time, softball at Father McGivney Catholic High School was canceled. Practices were also canceled and track practiced at 11:30 a.m. McGivney had a half day of attendance on Friday. The highly anticipated Civic Memorial at Edwardsville girls' softball game was moved to 4:30 p.m. Friday at EHS softball field. If you have any other cancellations you wish posted, e-mail news@riverbender.com.
Major League Soccer franchise St. Louis City SC in recent months has expanded its real estate holdings in Downtown West, purchasing a pair of buildings just north of its CityPark stadium.
We’ve already covered how Florida man Governor Ron DeSantis flipped out that Disney, the largest employer in his state, offered some mild criticism over one of his unconstitutional censorship bills, and decided to retaliate by (1) removing the stupid questionable “theme park exemption” his office had directly worked with Disney to insert into his unconstitutional […]
Dubbed 4 Hands on the Plaza, the brewery’s shipping container bar will be stationed in Kiener Plaza for the duration of Cardinals season, the company’s chief marketing officer Liz Swyers said.
It's a showdown on the fenceline. Charlie and our squirrel are having a staring contest, which the squirrel won on sheer speed. It scampered over to the bush near Charlie and then zipped down. It happened so fast Charlie hardly had time to blink. Those squirrels are quick little beasties.
Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc., the St. Louis-based toy retailer and entertainment company, has hired a new marketing chief and, separately, an entertainment and licensing consultant.
Pink Floyd is continuing the 50th anniversary celebration of their classic album The Dark Side of the Moon with a very special event. Unfortunately for U.S. fans, it's in Australia. The band has announced a…
The storm that’s coming to the area today is so bad that meteorologists have been predicting it since earlier this week. They’ve been saying all along that it would be potentially very dangerous, but as it gets closer, it looks like this storm will be even worse than feared.
NBC News reports on Audrey Hale, the shooter in the Nashville school shooting earlier this week: Even before authorities said Hale was transgender, users on extremist websites spent hours sharing their hopes that the shooter was trans or nonbinary, the primary targets of hate and harassment campaigns by the infamous extremist site 4chan over the ...continue reading "Audrey Hale might not be transgender at all"
As a rule, it’s a good idea to be particularly suspicious of defenses of censorship that — coincidentally — materially benefit the people espousing them. In this case, the argument in favor of censorship is coming from founder and CEO of AI image generator Midjourney, David Holz. And Holz makes clear that he is willing […]
The Police’s Andy Summers is heading out on a solo tour this summer. The guitarist just announced dates for his A Cracked Lens + A Missing String tour, which hits the U.S.…
With its intuitive, immersive training method, Rosetta Stone will have you reading, writing, and speaking new languages like a natural in no time. You’ll start by matching words with images just like when you learned your native language as a child. Then you’ll move onto interactive lessons where speech recognition technology works to evaluate and […]
Prosecutors dismissed charges against a former Berkeley mayor and in return the 84-year-old councilman agreed to not seek re-election or any other public office.
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri sued Attorney General Andrew Bailey today over his “sham” transgender care investigation.
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