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In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin calls out delays in implementing promised ban on menthol cigarettes, as Black communities continue to face disproportionate harm from Big Tobacco’s marketing tactics WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a speech on the Senate floor calling on the Food and Drug Administration and Biden Administration to swiftly implement a proposed public health regulation to prohibit the production and sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. Durbin spoke about his own family’s grief after losing his father to lung cancer, reiterating that a ban on menthol cigarettes could save hundreds of thousands of lives annually. In his remarks, Durbin also emphasized that communities of color bear the brunt of the addiction, disease, and death from menthol cigarettes as Big Tobacco has intentionally targeted Black Americans in advertising and marketing. “Last month, FDA submitted a regulation to the White

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Back in September Mozilla released a scathing report showing how modern vehicles are a privacy shitshow. After studying vehicle systems for over 600 hours, researchers found that most cars hoover up vast swaths of sensitive location and other information on consumers, then, like most companies, sell access to that data to pretty much any nitwit […]

GODFREY – The RiverBend Growth Association has selected Jeff Lauritzen’s COUNTRY Financial office as its December 2023 Small Business of the Month award recipient. Located at 2720 Gerson Avenue in Godfrey, the insurance and financial services firm has been in business locally under the sage leadership of Financial Representative Jeff Lauritzen now for 12 years. The local office has two employees. “Our vision is to be the premiere insurance and financial services provider in the Riverbend, protecting clients from the unknown and helping them plan their futures,” says Lauritzen. “We are on a mission to build a business of long-term core clients, based on integrity and responsiveness, while also being an active contributor throughout the Riverbend.” Over the past five years, the local COUNTRY Financial office on Gerson Avenue in Godfrey was purchased in late 2019, with building renovations completed in Fall 2021. Office staff moved into the location

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Missouri’s senior senator wants federal aid for Mallinckrodt Chemical Works sites where uranium was processed and stored, including areas in Bridgeton and Weldon Springs.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore announced Wednesday he is running for a full term in 2024.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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These local studios offer a variety of rejuvenating treatments and services.

A nonprofit was formed this year to run the innovation district. It's designed to help develop resources for a company looking to grow into a world-class venture.

Six survivors are expected at a ceremony commemorating the assault that propelled the United States into World War II.

Maternal mortality rates in impoverished areas of Missouri have historically rivaled that of third-world countries.  The state's now directing money to do something about it. Governor Mike Parson's office announced yesterday that the Department of Health and Senior Services, DHSS, has a new plan to improve the health of pregnant women and their care after childbirth, fueled by the $4.3 million the governor previously asked the general assembly to allocate. Missouri’s "maternal mortality prevention plan" has five main focuses: Maternal Quality Care Protocols, Maternal Care Workforce, Optimize Postpartum Care, Maternal Health Access Project, and Improved Maternal Health Data.

A St. Louis County Police detective killed in the line of duty is being honored Thursday morning with a bridge named after him. Detective Antonio Valentine was killed in a violent head-on crash on December 1, 2021, on Chambers Road in Bellefontaine Neighbors.

McDonald's is launching a spin-off chain, and it could be a major rival for Starbucks.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Police Department has issued an endangered silver advisory for 85-year-old Bennie Moore Jr.

Two men have been indicted in federal court and charged with mail theft.

Money from a national opioid settlement is coming to St. Louis.

There's a medical issue among the horses at Fanduel Sportsbook and Horse Racing in Collinsville, Illinois.

The St. Louis Walk of Fame is stepping out of the Delmar Loop and into the pages of its new book. St. Louis Walk of Fame: 250 Years of Great St. Louisans highlights of 173 inductees including 27 of the newest to get a star including actor Jon Hamm, boxers Michael and Leon Spinks, TV host and producer Andy Cohen, football star Kurt Warner, Temptations vocalist Dennis Edwards, writer Jonathan Franzen, actor Jenifer Lewis, NASA mission controller Gene Kranz, musicians the Isley Brothers and bowler Pete Weber.