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The museum will host panels, storytelling events, and more throughout the month.

Some schools have decided to keep mask rules in place, while others are making them optional. Across the Metro East, you'll find plenty of differences in opinion.

SPRINGFIELD - National Burn Awareness Week February 6-12, is an initiative of the American Burn Association. Burn Awareness Week, observed the first full week in February, is a window of opportunity for organizations to mobilize burn, fire and life safety educators to unite in sharing a common burn awareness and prevention message in communities. The theme for National Burn Awareness Week 2022, “Burning Issues in the Kitchen”, where a common risk of injury exists from scald burns, improperly used appliances, and distracted cooking occur. Annually, in the United States, approximately 400,000 people receive medical care for treatment of burn injuries. In 2018 alone, there were 3,655 deaths from fire and smoke inhalation and another 40,000 people were treated in hospitals for burn related injuries. “Every 60 seconds someone in the U.S. sustains a burn injury serious enough to require treatment. Be on alert! Stay in the kitchen while cooking and create a three-foot kid-free

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EDWARDSVILLE - The tunes were raw and gritty, smooth and haunting, and sometimes charged and electrifying. The lyrics that leapt out were of hate and love, humanity and inhumanity, and struggle and freedom. Jazz music co-starred with civil rights historical facts during the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Black Heritage Month’s (BHM) opening ceremony at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, held virtually and hosted by The Inclusive Excellence, Education and Development Hub (The Hub). Renowned jazz flutist Galen Abdur-Razzaq was the keynote speaker. The theme for BHM is “Black Excellence in Action.” “In celebration of our Black Heritage Month, we honor the many contributions that Black students, faculty, and staff have made to SIUE and our surrounding communities,” said SIUE Chancellor Randy Pembrook. “SIUE works every day to make our community more inclusive, diverse, and accessible. Every year, the month of February comes with the opportunity

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There's a battle a-brewin' between Molson Coors Beverage Co. and Anheuser-Busch InBev over the two breweries' low-calorie beer offerings.

More troubling developments for both NSO Group and the country it calls home.

Less than a month ago, both entities found themselves in midst of another turbulent news cycle, thanks to reporting from Calcalist that showed Israel police were using NSO spyware to engage in domestic surveillance. Worse, the people targeted weren't just dangerous criminals or suspected terrorists.

Instead, like everywhere else NSO malware has been abused, Israeli police forces targeted activists protesting then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's CVOID restrictions, as well as mayors of Israeli cities. Also included on the list of hacking targets were former government employees and "a person close" to a senior politician. In some cases, the police used the malware to phish for information from targets' phones, all without any reasonable suspicion these targets may have committed criminal acts.

On top of all that, the police deployed the malware without direct or judicial oversight. Utilizing a loophole in the law, investigators avoided seeking court authorization for these hacking attempts.

There's more of that being discovered. The Israeli government is conducting its own investigation of NSO and the use of its spyware. That has resulted in the discovery of more questionable hacking.

Israel police used spyware to access data in the phone of an individual involved in the trial of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a report said on Wednesday.

The hack, reported on Channel 13 News, was discovered by the Justice Ministry during its review of the police's use of the spyware.

This hacking -- like much of what was reported by Calcalist -- was also likely illegal.

The police reportedly claimed that the investigators never received the data, which was gathered against the police's procedures.

A failure to collect data is not the same thing as never engaging in illegal hacking at all, no matter how the police might try to spin this. The target of this attack still has yet to be identified, but the report contains a statement from the attorney representing Shaul and Iris Elovich, a couple accused of bribing Netanyahu.

There's also this tantalizing detail, which shows the police may have been lying in its earlier statement to Calcalist about every use of NSO malware being legal and authorized by the proper court paperwork.

In a brief statement that doesn't go into any specific cases, the police said “additional findings” from its internal probe “change in some ways” an earlier statement last month that ruled out any wrongdoing.

Hmm. Maybe don't offer up blanket statements when you have no other evidence but knee-jerk defensiveness when you've been caught with your hand in the domestic surveillance cookie jar. The only "way" the earlier statement could "change" at this point is to contain admissions of wrongdoing and illegal searches. That correction -- whenever it arrives -- is going to leave deep, self-inflicted bruises on the Israel Police.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is challenging the County's latest mask policy

The Missouri Senate voted down a proposed Congressional map that would have carved up a safe Democratic seat in Kansas City to add another in Republicans’ favor, but the redistricting debate stretched into Tuesday morning as the Senate remained deadlocked. After hours of internal caucus discussion that stretched late into the afternoon, the Senate gaveled […]

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The St. Louis Affordable Housing Commission signed off on a loan to a nonprofit led by a man who was long a thorn in the side of City Hall.

St. Louis neighborhoods without the lauded program Cure Violence showed similar drops in crime last year, criminologist Rick Rosenfeld finds.

Republican hard-liners pushed for the ‘7-1’ map that would send a Democrat packing; some Democrats sought three congressional seats.

Republicans say people who receive Medicaid benefits should also have to work in order to receive the government-funded health insurance benefits

Seven days to go before Valentine's Day, and sales are ramping up at a High Ridge floral shop, Stems By Stacy. "We've got about 50 [orders] in right now. We will probably do 200 to 300 deliveries. It just kind of depends from year to year," owner Stacy Overlander said. Overlander and her team are preparing for what's typically the busiest time of the year, but they're finding some stock is just out of their control. "There are a few things that we are not able to get," Overlander said. "Baskets…

A Fenton-based manufacturer has acquired the medical gas regulator product line of a St. Louis-based aerospace and defense manufacturer.

There were only 44,000 TVs in the country when the first regular television broadcast in St. Louis began on Feb. 8, 1947.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The Frontenac Missouri Police Department said roads will be closed near Plaza Frontenac in order to repair a water main break Tuesday morning. Both lanes of eastbound Clayton Road are closed from Frontenac Woods Drive to South Lindbergh Boulevard. One lane of westbound Clayton Road is closed between South Lindbergh [...]

Jincy Dunne, of O'Fallon, wants her role on the women's hockey team at the Olympics to serve as an inspiration for young girls everywhere.

A South County shopping center hit by the closure of a JCPenney Home Store location is set to undergo a $3 million redevelopment.

ST. LOUIS - A man was shot in the chest early Tuesday morning in St. Louis. The shooting happened in the 4100 block of Maffitt Avenue at about 4 a.m. Police found multiple shell casings on the ground near the scene. The victim's condition is unknown at this time. FOX 2's Nissan Rogue Runner reporter [...]