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The university in 2007 retired Chief Illiniwek after the NCAA found the chief to be “hostile and abusive.”

EDWARDSVILLE - Trinity Lutheran Church hosted its annual CHRISTmas Ugly Sweater 5K Saturday morning. This was the race’s seventh year. The race is a charity event held every year with proceeds going to Edwardsville Neighbors and the Glen-Ed Food Pantry. Each one of those organizations received $1,500. Trinity hosted Glen Ed Week at the church, a Christmas workshop with the kids that will receive an additional $5,700. This race used to be a huge draw in the Edwardsville area gathering almost 300 people before the pandemic. In 2020 the race was held virtually before being back in person in 2021. Casey Shank, the race’s main organizer said that this year they had 201 participants, up from about 150 last year. Shank said that her favorite part of the event is starting off the Christmas spirit as a community and being able to give back. What she really enjoys is when people will come up to her and tell her how much they loved the event. This happened multiple

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The Battleship Missouri Memorial has unveiled a new plaque onboard the USS Missouri to recognize the state's efforts to preserve America’s last-commissioned battleship.

Five Years Ago This week in 2017, New York’s AG rolled out a tool to help people check if their name was used to support killing net neutrality, while we looked at why Ajit Pai had been spending his time attacking Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Pai also didn’t want people talking about a court ruling […]

Two men who were facing felony charges alleging they abused boys at a private Christian boarding school in southwest Missouri have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, and the case against a third was dropped.

ILLINOIS (NEXSTAR) -- With the winter holidays right around the corner, drivers may see some vehicles traveling through Illinois without a front license plate attached. This may leave some travelers confused about whether that is allowed in Illinois. According to state laws, if your vehicle is registered in Illinois and you are issued two plates [...]

A new study has concluded that "minorities are 24 to 33 percent more likely to be stopped for speeding" than white people who are driving the exact same speed. This is based on research among Lyft drivers in Florida That sounded striking, but when I was reading through the study I noticed a brief mention ...continue reading "New study says Black drivers get 0.7 more speeding citations per century"

Four years have passed since a major wake-up call in the St. Louis Blues' only Stanley Cup title season.

A Michigan man accused of forcing a woman out of her SUV earlier this week is behind bars after a crash near Collinsville, Illinois.

Police have not released the woman's name.

Columnist Bill McClellan looks at the St. Louis aldermen sentenced for bribery as well as media personalities Dan McLaughlin and Vic Faust and wonders what’s going on.

At least five people have been shot and three have died in shootings since the start of the weekend, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

A St. Louis County police officer shot and killed a man after they say he charged toward officers with a weapon Wednesday evening.

Police are investigating a crash that killed a pedestrian in the Mehlville area Friday evening.

Stacker compiled the highest paying business jobs in St. Louis, MO-IL using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.