The Cardinals open the 2023 baseball season Thursday afternoon at Busch Stadium against the Toronto Blue Jays. St. Louis is hoping to bounce back after a disappointing first-round exit from the playoffs last season. STLPR's Wayne Pratt talks with Cardinals beat writer Rob Rains of STLSportsPage.com.
Cardinals Care auctions are available online during the 2023 season. Proceeds benefit Cardinals Care in its mission of helping kids in the St. Louis community.
A life-saving medication that rapidly reverses the effects of opioid overdoses will soon become way easier to get. The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved naloxone, or Narcan Nasal Spray, for over-the-counter use. Naloxone has been available at most Missouri pharmacies without prescriptions since 2017.
WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies may no longer need to cover a wide swath of preventive health care services that were required by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, under a federal judge’s ruling issued Thursday in Texas. The decision could affect millions of Americans’ access to no-cost preventive health care — including pregnancy-related care, cancer screenings, […]
ALTON - The City of Alton has announced it is changing its domain in 2023 from cityofaltonil.com and altonpolice.com to cityofaltonil.gov . Here are a few fundamental reasons why: This change will increase the security and searchability of our online presence. The first set of standards for domains, developed in the 1980s, originally designated .com for commercial purposes and .gov for government. To maintain domain integrity, eligibility is limited to qualified government organizations and programs. Having a managed domain name such as .gov assures users that they are accessing an official U.S. government site. Riverbender designed, maintains, and hosts the City of Alton webpage. The old domain name will continue to work for a period of time. “There are several reasons why the switch from .com to .gov is necessary," Director of Information Technology Jarvis T. Swope said. "The biggest reason is that .gov is controlled by federal government domains that are more secure
Earlier this month, we wrote about Mark Warner’s RESTRICT Act, mainly in the context of how it appeared to be kneejerk legislating in response to the moral panic around TikTok. Despite the bill being out for a few weeks, over the last few days, some of the discussion around it has gone viral, in particular […]
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The music of Lynyrd Skynyrd will be celebrated with an all-star tribute performance at Sunday’s CMT Music Awards. The segment will feature a who’s who of guitarists, including Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, ZZ Top’s Billy F.…
ST. LOUIS – The Metro East and St. Louis areas are preparing for the possibility of severe storms in the afternoon and evening hours on Friday. The National Weather Service in St. Louis has said that severe thunderstorms are likely across parts of the area on Friday and currently the best time for severe storms is the afternoon and evening hours mainly between 2-9 p.m. “All hazards will be possible, including tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail,” the NWS said. “There is high confidence that the area will see at least scattered severe thunderstorms.” The NWS said a strong low-pressure system before a cold front moves on Friday afternoon and evening. The NWS said after the severe EF-3 tornado that occurred at the Amazon Warehouse in Edwardsville with 150 mph winds in December 2021 that killed six workers, the area always needs to be prepared when high wind and storm conditions are predicted. Many of the victims were delivery drivers, who pulled
Here is Tucker Carlson following the mass shooting in Nashville at a Christian school: The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity and therefore its natural enemy. How appalling does Carlson have to get before Rupert Murdoch finally pulls him off the air? Is there literally nothing he can say that crosses the line ...continue reading "Tucker Carlson descends ever further into the muck"
Rabbits can be wonderful for families, but only if the parents realize that the pets are likely going to end up serving as their companions, not the child’s.
To call it an eyesore would be an understatement. For years Pine Lawn Alderwoman Dionne Jones has been trying to do something about the pile of charred rubble at Dardanella and Kienlen avenues, but it’s a task made all the harder because she can’t get a straight answer about who owns the property. "You have [neighbors] who are ashamed to invite friends over," she says.
From St. Louis Business Journal: A city board is considering incentives for a new $26 million affordable housing development on scattered sites in south St. Louis. Prospective redeveloper Marquette Homes Partners LP, an affordable housing venture from Lutheran Development Group and Rise Community Development, wants to build or rehabilitate 11 buildings into 60 new residential […]
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