EDWARDSVILLE - Simon McClaine, a star hurdler for the Alton High boys track team, is off to a great start in the new outdoor season, winning both the 110-meter and 300-meter hurdles races in helping the Redbirds finish a solid fourth in the Southwest Illinois Relays, the season's first big outdoor meet, Tuesday afternoon at the Winston Brown Track and Field Complex in Edwardsville. McClaine won the 110 meters at 15.91 seconds, then took first in the 300 meters at 41.73 seconds, a strong start to the outdoor season after enjoying a successful indoor season. He was also a part of the 4x400 meter relay team that came in third at 3:38.91, climaxing a good opening day. In an interview conducted before the 4x400 meter relay, McClaine expressed his feelings about his day. "I'm feeling pretty good so far," McClaine said. "I've won both of my open events and I'm about to hit the (4x400) in a second." McClaine had a successful 2022 campaign and for his senior year, he's hoping to do the same
The life-plus-seventy-years sentence imposed on Winnie the Pooh by Cher’s ex-husband is finally over. Petitions for an early release went unheeded, forcing the butt naked childhood icon to perform tricks for the heirs of its creator’s estate until it was finally allowed to roam free — nearly 40 years after the bear’s sentence should have […]
None of the St. Louis-area chefs, restaurateurs or establishments that were named as semifinalists for the 2023 James Beard Foundation Awards — the culinary world's top prize — have advanced to the next round.
A $44 million redevelopment project of the historic Broadview Hotel broke ground in downtown East St. Louis on Tuesday.
It's the largest project in Metro East town since the Casino Queen in 1993.
"Even though it's dreary, the sun is shining," Mayor Robert Eastern III said.
The Broadview Hotel, at 415 E. Broadway in East St. Louis, opened in the 1920s. Nearly a century later, it's in desperate need of a makeover. State and local leaders, public and private dollars and nonprofits helped to revitalize…
Today on TAP: There is far more corporate crime than crimes by unions. But corrupt labor officials are prosecuted and jailed, while executive thugs walk.
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Charging documents say the defendant, who is white, made 15 to 17 calls on Monday and Tuesday threatening a Black judge, who is not named in the affidavit.
TIC-MS, a St. Louis-based provider of calibration services for laboratory equipment, has been acquired by Rochester, New York-based Transcat Inc. (Nasdaq: TRNS).
A new AP/NORC poll includes one of our favorite questions: Which government programs do we spend too much on? Here are the results: The only program that a majority wants to cut back is good ol' foreign aid, which now has a thousand-year streak of being disliked even though it accounts for—let's see here—0.9% of ...continue reading "Americans are pretty satisfied with federal spending priorities"
Koibito Poké on Wednesday opened its second St. Louis location in the shopping and entertainment district — just in time for opening day, officials said.
Jolman Nunez vividly remembers being the new kid in town when he and his brothers, Jesus and Ever, arrived in St. Louis back in 2007. Just nine years old, Jolman had moved here with his siblings from their native Honduras to join their mother, who had already been here for a few years.
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