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From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Don Garber has taken in plenty of new teams’ home openers during his time as Major Legaue Soccer commissioner. Since he assumed office in 1999, the league has grown from 10 teams to 30. Garber said he’s never seen anything quite like Saturday night’s St. Louis City SC inaugural home game at […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: One of the first major construction projects around the perimeter of the under-construction National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency took a major step forward Wednesday after a city board voted to approve variances for the construction of an office building and hotel. The projects are proposed on the site of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing […]

Update: The crash has been cleared and all lanes are open. COLLINSVILLE, Ill. -- A major crash near Collinsville has shut down all I-55/70 southbound lanes. Illinois State Police are working the scene and tell us the crash involves two cars and a semi truck. Troopers say a car ran into the median running into [...]

Even as Elon first made his bid for Twitter, we highlighted just how little he understood about content moderation and trust & safety. And, that really matters, because, as Nilay Patel pointed out, managing trust & safety basically is the core business of a social media company: “The essential truth of every social network is […]

State Sen. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, joins St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg to talk about a multitude of issues during the 2023 legislative session. That includes bills that would curtail the purchase of farmland by some foreign corporations and efforts to extend Medicaid to postpartum mothers.

"The struggles change from day to day, but it is still a step forward to be home where she can start seeing family and friends," Edmondson's mother said.

The 105-year-old Hill-based deli won a coveted James Beard “America’s Classics” Award in 2017, the first St. Louis area restaurant to be so honored.

EAST ST. LOUIS – A federal jury convicted four leaders of the Gangster Disciples on Tuesday for their participation in a years-long interstate racketeering conspiracy involving drug trafficking, witness tampering, and multiple murders. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, the four defendants were members of the Gangster Disciples, a gang with a decades-long history of lawlessness and violence. The Gangster Disciples have a presence throughout the United States, including in state and federal prisons. The gang employs a structured hierarchy, with leadership positions such as national “Board Members” and state “Governors.” As part of their efforts to maintain control of the gang, the defendants murdered two other members who opposed their regime. On May 18, 2018, Warren Griffin, aka GG, aka Big Head, 53, of Glenwood, Illinois, drove to the south side of Chicago with fellow Gangster Disciples Board Member Anthony Dobbins to murder

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Ray Williams has taken shelter under the President Casino Laclede’s Landing pavilion near downtown St. Louis on and off for the past three years. He likes watching sunrises and sunsets from the Mississippi River.

E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt, Sam & Dave's Sam Moore, Darlene Love and Steve Earle have been chosen as the honorees for the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music’s first-ever American Music Honors.  The inaugural event will…

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U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, has locked horns with fellow GOP congressman Matt Gaetz, a Florida man and one of Donald Trump’s most strident supporters.

The Left Anchor hosts continue the discussion about the ongoing frenzy of transphobia.

The trooper found the person in the road about 9:15 a.m. Monday on Collinsville Road, about a half-mile north of St. Clair Avenue.

ROXANA - Abbrey DeWerffs was a state qualifier this past wrestling season, capturing third place at sectionals. She made history as the Shells’ first female state qualifier in girls wrestling. Abbrey qualified in the 190-pound weight category, although she weighs 170 pounds. For her wrestling accomplishments, Abbrey is a Midwest Members Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for the Shells. This is a recap of her record with significant wins on Trackwrestling.com in her career: She won IKWF Girls State in 2015, 2016, 2017, and placed fifth in 2018 after some tough weight changes, and won again in 2019. She made it to state in 2020 but it was canceled due to COVID. She was also a boys state qualifier in 2020 as well but it was canceled for COVID. In 2019, Abbey was also the Girls Freestyle State Champ as well. So in 2019, she won Girls Folkstyle and Freestyle Girls State Championships. In 2018 she won fifth at U.S. Marine Corps Girls Nationals. Most of these tournaments

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