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County tax will be stacked on any municipal levy, he says.

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Community College System has recorded its largest year-over-year enrollment growth in nearly 15 years. Opening Spring 2023 enrollment increased by 7.2 percent from the previous spring according to the Illinois Community College Board’s (ICCB) Spring 2023 Enrollment Report. “This upward enrollment trend is encouraging and continues to signal a shift towards pre-pandemic levels. This data furthers our confidence that efforts to expand learning opportunities and increase access to a community college education are working,” said ICCB Executive Director Brian Durham. The 2023 Spring Enrollment Report shows the first Spring-to-Spring semester increase in the last five years. It’s also the second largest enrollment increase in nearly 15 years (7.8 percent increase between Spring 2009-2010), and the second consecutive semester of growth for the nation’s third-largest community college system. Significant findings from the Spring

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A total of 33 states and the District of Columbia now offer at least some form of sports wagering.

On a Friday afternoon in late December, Geri Curtis received a disturbing phone call informing her she had only five days to find a new home for a developmentally disabled person. As part of her job as public administrator for Livingston County, she had become legal guardian of a person with severe developmental disabilities two months earlier.

Staffing shortages at the state and local level translate to a lack of resources for hundreds of Missourians with developmental, behavioral disorders.

St. Louis County is considering revising its clean air code to include marijuana smoke, County Executive Sam Page said Wednesday.

Sam Quinones says he knows the solution to the fentanyl crisis. I was eager to hear it, but it turned out to be this: It is hard to believe that two nations that have negotiated complex free-trade agreements cannot come to some deeper collaboration on drugs, upheld across presidential administrations and sustained despite distracting conflicts ...continue reading "Still no answer to the fentanyl crisis"

NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors postponed a scheduled grand jury session Wednesday in the investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign, at least temporarily slowing a decision on whether to charge the ex-president, according to four people familiar with the matter. The grand jurors were told to be [...]

More than three years since the designation of COVID-19 as a pandemic, Missouri House members spent part of Tuesday afternoon debating whether COVID-19 vaccines save lives.

Carla “Coffee” Wright says she’s lived in her house in the 21st Ward long enough to run for the Board of Aldermen. But neighbors tell the RFT the house she claims to live in has long been abandoned.

Panera is the first national restaurant to integrate loyalty identification and payment into Amazon One, a payment system that works by reading users’ palm print.

DHSS info on licenses would allow financial institutions to comply with U.S. Department of Treasury standards to prevent money laundering and other financial crimes.

If you're at Ivy Cafe (14 North Meramec Avenue, Clayton; 314-776-9377) on a weekday, sometime in the two o'clock hour, there's a good chance you'll bear witness to the revelation upon which the restaurant is based. That's roughly the time when co-owner Julie Keane pulls her sourdough from the oven — something you'll know is happening by the way the intoxicating aroma scents the air. For quality control purposes, of course, Keane often pulls one of the loaves for herself, cracking it open with her hands and then placing in it a good-sized cube of unsalted butter that slowly melts, soaking into every nook and cranny so that the interior glistens.

Mighty Pines frontman was among 75,000 applicants when he signed up to audition in February 2022.

Jerome Everetts, 50, and Kelly Hogan, 39, were acquitted of nine charges after being accused of sexually abusing three children.

The Studio Art faculty at Saint Louis University have invited artists to show drawing, sculpture, fibers, costume design, ceramics, jewelry, painting, and photography at McNamee Gallery, the curricular exhibition space

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