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Garden Glow

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Garden Glow at the Missouri Botanical Garden dazzles visitors with its exquisite light displays year after year. Come to celebrate the season with more than two million twinkling lights, beautiful […]

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Rachel Huffman

Vintage Voices Celebrates Successful Season With $4,000 in Contributions to Community Organizations

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ALTON - Committee chair Jody Basola expressed gratitude for the community's strong support of Vintage Voices and the event's continued popularity. “This year’s attendance brought our 24-year total to more than 10,000,” Basola said. “The portrayal of individuals from Alton’s past by costumed actors in the Alton Cemetery has become a treasured October tradition.” In addition to the primary mission of preserving local history, Vintage Voices is making a positive

Midwest Members Credit Union Male Athlete Of Month: Jasiah Brown Excels In Three Sports For Oilers

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WOOD RIVER - Jasiah Brown, a junior at East Alton-Wood River High School (EAWR), is being recognized for his dedication to basketball and all his other sports. Brown has been playing the sport his entire life and says he enjoys the opportunity to improve every day. “I’m thankful for my parents as they always pushed me through all the sports I participated in, especially my father, as you can probably recognize him at any sporting event because of his excessive yelling,” Brown

Midwest Members Credit Union Female Athlete Of Month: East Alton-Wood River Senior Excels in Multiple Sports

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WOOD RIVER - Averi Gilliam, a senior at East Alton-Wood River High School, has been in basketball for many years. Gilliam has played the sport since seventh grade and credits her leadership, kindness, encouragement, teamwork, and focus as key qualities leading to this honor. She is a Midwest Members Credit Union Female Athlete Of The Month for the Oilers. Gilliam’s basketball career has been shaped by the support of her mother and coach Lindsey Perz, who coached her in previous years.

Jersey Community High School Tour Highlights Jerseyville Public Service Careers

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JERSEYVILLE - More than 100 underclassmen from Jersey Community High School toured several key government and public service locations in Jerseyville recently. The students visited the Jersey County Courthouse, Jersey County Government Building, City Hall, the City of Jerseyville Police and Fire departments, and the recently renovated Jerseyville Public Library. During the tour, students learned about various careers, community resources, current initiatives, operating procedures,

Press access to Oval Office argued in case involving Trump and wire service

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WASHINGTON — A three-judge federal appeals panel grilled lawyers for a former White House official and The Associated Press Monday in a case that could significantly overhaul press access to the Oval Office and Air Force One. The two sides sparred over whether the president, in this case President Donald Trump, has sole discretion over […]
Ashley Murray

Judge drops James Comey and Letitia James charges, saying prosecutor served ‘unlawfully’

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A senior federal judge dismissed charges Monday against two public officials with long-running public disputes with President Donald Trump, saying the controversial appointment of the president’s former personal attorney as a prosecutor doomed the cases. Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, whom former President Bill Clinton appointed to the bench in South Carolina, wrote […]
Jacob Fischler

Genetic Testing Pilot Aims To Catch A Silent Killer

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A potentially life-saving pilot program is launching in Bloomington, Illinois, to detect a little-known but surprisingly common genetic condition that can dramatically raise cholesterol levels—and the risk of heart attacks and strokes—even in children. It’s called familial hypercholesterolemia , or FH. It’s estimated that 1 in 200 Americans has the genetic disorder where the body can’t effectively clear LDL or ‘bad’ cholesterol from the blood.

CNN’s Latest Innovation: Slathering Your Screen With T-Mobile Ads

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CNN, like most U.S. cable news networks, professes to provide users access to journalism. Instead, what you’ll most consistently find is a sort of generic, ad-slathered, center-right, corporatist drivel with the rough edges (read: truth) sanded off like a Ken doll’s genitals to avoid offense. “View from nowhere” journalism that doesn’t inform so much as […]
Karl Bode

Managing Holiday Meals and Diabetes

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Holiday meals bring candy, cookies and other sweets in bountiful amounts. Most of us will chow down with a promise to return to healthy eating tomorrow . But people with diabetes must closely monitor their intake of sugar and carbohydrates at every meal. What is diabetes? Aminat Ogun, MD , is a family medicine physician at OSF HealthCare. She says diabetes is a disorder that affects how your body uses blood sugar. Type 1 diabetes is when an autoimmune reaction stops your body from making