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GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College has a variety of events planned in February to honor Black History Month and two get underway this week. A full calendar list is below. The 2022 Lewis and Clark Community College event schedule has been designed to keep in line with the campus’ COVID-19 policy. All events are free and open to the public, except for the Soul Food Dinner, which is for L&C students. 2/9 – D.C. Cooper on Public Speaking: 11 a.m.-noon, Reid Memorial Library. Communications expert D.C. Cooper will highlight information on the value and importance of becoming proficient in public speaking. Participants will learn how to develop skills to become more confident and competent when speaking in a formal and informal setting. 2/10 – Alton Mayor David Goins Talk: 11 a.m. - noon, Reid Memorial Library. Alton Mayor David Goins will discuss his decades-long career in law enforcement and his most recent accomplishment as the top city official

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ST. LOUIS — A teenager who was driving a stolen vehicle has been charged in a fatal crash that occurred last summer. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 17-year-old Vincent Wallace of St. Louis County was charged last week with second-degree murder and several other charges in connection with the crash that killed 53-year-old Derrick [...]

ST. PETERS, Mo. – The St. Peters Police Department confirms about 40 vehicles on the Amazon parking lot were broken into overnight. A spokesperson for the police department says that around 3:55 a.m., video shows a dark colored sedan pulled into the lot with several people inside of it. There is no word on where [...]

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. - The Maryland Heights Police Department confirms that at least 20 vehicles were broken into in the Ranken Jordan East Parking Lot overnight. The east parking lot is the closest lot to the building. Police say that most of the vehicles had windows smashed. There is no word on if there is [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Anti-abortion centers across the country are receiving tens of millions of tax dollars to talk women out of ending their pregnancies, a nearly fivefold increase from …

MADISON COUNTY - There's something for almost everyone in a fast-moving new book on Madison County history that is loaded with facts and anecdotes. Writer Tom Emery of Carlinville is releasing The Madison County History Reader, a collection of over sixty of his articles on a wide array of subjects relating to the history, people, and places of Madison County. The reader is different than any other book on county history, and looks at many fascinating aspects of the past in this area. Many leading towns in the county are covered in some fashion in the book, which is 170 pages long and fully illustrated. Topics include the origins of the county, pioneer experiences in Madison’s earliest days, as well as the Civil War era and some of the remarkable women the county has produced. Other topics include the world wars, education, natural disasters, sports, celebrities, and early holidays. Emery’s work is familiar to area readers, as his articles regularly appear across Madison

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COLLINSVILLE - It's quite an accomplishment for any athlete in any sport in his or her first year to qualify for a sectional tournament in an IHSA state series, and in the case of Alton senior bowler Taylor Greco, it's a very big accomplishment indeed. Greco, in her first year of bowling for the Redbirds, qualified for the sectional tournament at Mt. Vernon with a six-game score of 785 at the regional tournament at Camelot Bowl in Collinsville Feb. 5. She is the only Alton bowler to qualify for the sectional, with teammate Regan Spinks going through as the first alternate. Greco is one of the Auto Butler Female Athletes Of The Month. In an interview conducted after the fourth game of her six-game series, Greco felt she was bowling very well despite some tough sledding along the way. "A few rough patches, but other than that, I'm doing pretty good," Greco said. "I think all of us are." At the time of the interview, both Greco and the Redbirds were in contention for both a top ten individua

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Attorney general in a tweet says Jones ‘insults victims.’ A Jones aide said the mayor explained in the Facebook exchange last month that she had no role in the release of the man charged in the case.

Vincent Wallace is charged with second-degree murder, resisting arrest in connection with a fiery crash.

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