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A man from Randolph County, Ill., was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison for shooting a killing a man during a 2020 robbery attempt in Collinsville.

Fallen Kansas City firefighter Capt. Bobby Rocha will be honored in an annual ceremony hosted by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

For years, defenders of pharma patents loved to claim that the reason that they needed patents and the reason they had to charge extortionate rates for drugs was because of the high cost of R&D for new drugs. The numbers keep going up. When I first started covering pharma patents, the number bandied about was […]

COLLINSVILLE – On October 2, 2022 at approximately 9:55 p.m., Illinois State Police (ISP) District 11 Troopers responded to a reported expressway shooting on Interstate 55 southbound near milepost 5. The victim stated they were traveling southbound on Interstate 55 at the above location and time when someone inside a dark gray or black pickup truck (possible 4-door) fired an unknown number of shots at their vehicle. The victim reported no injuries and the suspect vehicle and occupants have not been located. On September 25, 2022, at approximately 12:16 a.m., ISP District 11 Troopers responded to a reported expressway shooting on Interstate 55 southbound near milepost 6. The victim stated they were shot at by someone in a dark blue or black pickup truck. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was treated at a local hospital. The suspect vehicle and occupants have not been located. These shootings occurred in the same area and the suspect vehicle is very similar. Th

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With the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed climate rule pending, organizations and property owners alike are considering what they should do now to move closer toward compliance once a final decision is made. No matter what form the final rule takes and regardless of your company’s current carbon reduction strategy, greater oversight is coming in the not-so-distant future. There are strong indicators that market forces are already acting faster than the U.S. regulatory process.…

Illinois State Police responded to shootings on Interstate 55.

OK, not that kind of pledging.

Tom Petty was a proud son of Gainesville, Florida, and the city's university plans to honor the late rocker with Tom Petty Day. The University of Florida has announced that…

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This past weekend, Pusha T's show in St. Louis made headlines for reasons having nothing to do with the Virginia Beach rapper's performance. A little after 5 a.m. the morning after the show, @mitchellbuchn tweeted, "@PUSHA_T i lost my prosthetic leg at your stl show, still had fun tho" Despite the tweet being sent just a little bit after 5 a.m., Pusha T responded in just a matter of minutes. In a quote Tweet, the "If You Know You Know" rapper responded, "We gotta find that man…if you were at the STL show and know where my guy’s prosthetic leg is…pls hand it over."

I was up all night doing astronomy stuff and forgot to post a lunchtime photo today! In order to restore the proper clockwork of the universe, here's a photo of young French lovers on the Paris metro actually taken around lunchtime. That's a rare thing for lunchtime photos.

It's actually three farms in Illinois.

The fest will host three-days of events, films, workshops, and "horrific entertainment."

Brentwood resident Barry Williams last month sent a letter to Brentwood Mayor David Dimmitt suggesting a way to honor Brentwood’s founding family, the Maddens. He says that nothing in Brentwood bears the family’s name since the city stripped it from the annual Maddenfest festival. Maddenfest began in In 1979 when Brentwood celebrated the 60th Anniversary […]

The NWS said plant parents should have a plan to protect sensitive vegetation.

Maggie Haberman has been covering Donald Trump forever, and for four years she covered him in the White House for the New York Times. Naturally she wrote a book after he left office, and lefties have been up in arms about the fact that she revealed things which perhaps should have been revealed at the ...continue reading "BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump is an idiot"

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ProPublica’s Emerging Reporters Program, now in its eighth year, is focused on providing financial resources and mentorship to students for whom investigative journalism might otherwise be inaccessible, so they can pursue early career opportunities in the field.

Participants receive a $9,000 stipend, a trip to the annual NICAR investigative journalism conference, occasional training and presentations by speakers. They’ll also be paired one-on-one with ProPublica journalists, who can help counsel them on stories, build their connections in the industry and expose them to the varied paths for careers in investigative journalism. Past Emerging Reporters have gone on to work at The New York Times, The Atlantic, THE CITY, Vox and other outlets.

Our goal is to encourage the next generation of journalists who seek to shine a light on abuses of power and produce stories of moral force that provoke change. In choosing the class, we look for students who demonstrate an early dedication to journalism as a career, through internships, work at local news outlets or campus publications. And where those opportunities — which are often unpaid — aren’t accessible, we look for other ways the student has shown an eagerness and drive to learn the craft.

The 2022-2023 academic year’s class of outstanding student journalists are from Florida and New Mexico, Colorado and Shanghai. They represent a range of collegiate journeys, and their desire to learn and pursue ambitious, important stories inspired us. Through their work, the students have already shown not only their dedication to the craft, but a yearning to tell stories with the potential for impact.

They have investigated university labor disputes and inaccurate health insurance directories that can lead to big bills for patients. They’ve helped launch hyperlocal news outlets and worked as full-time reporters in addition to carrying a full course load. Some of them are editors and reporters at their school newspapers, while others are preparing to look for their first professional newsroom jobs.

We’re so excited to support them.

Meet our 2022 class:

Chad Bradley is a senior at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication majoring in journalism and minoring in American Indian studies. Bradley’s reporting focuses on indigenous communities and tribal nations, and he hopes to improve coverage and understanding of the issues Indigenous people face. They currently fact-check with PolitiFact Arizona for the 2022 midterm elections and previously reported for Carnegie-Knight News21 and Cronkite News. Bradley is from northwestern New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo Nation.

Kevin Palomino is a junior at the University of Oklahoma majoring in journalism and minoring in international studies. Palomino serves as the president of his school's chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. For the past two years, he was a reporter at Telemundo Oklahoma, covering news stories ranging from death penalty executions to Oklahoma's wild, severe weather. Palomino was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and immigrated to Oklahoma with his family in 2005.

Yiwen Lu is a senior studying economics and political science at University of Chicago, where she serves as the managing editor for The Chicago Maroon. Her reporting focuses on subjects at the intersection of business and technology. Lu previously worked at The Washington Post, USA TODAY, NBC Chicago and The Charlotte Observer. She also participated in the Politico Student Journalism Institute and the Asian American Journalists Association’s Voices program in 2022. Lu is from Shanghai, China.

Alexandra Caban-Echevarria is a senior at Muhlenberg College, majoring in both media & communication and English. She is a managing editor at The Muhlenberg Weekly and the assistant editor of the Allentown Voice, a nonprofit news project covering Allentown’s affordable housing crisis. She worked as part of the inaugural team of journalists on the project and currently runs the project’s social media channels.

Alex Perry is a junior at Northwestern University double majoring in economics and journalism with a minor in data science. Currently a part-time associate copy editor at Axios, Perry has interned at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Macon Telegraph and the Johns Creek Herald. She is also currently a managing editor at The Daily Northwestern. She’s passionate about investigative business journalism, as well as the business of journalism, and wants to report on the media industry.

Nadia Bey is a senior at Duke University, where she is digital strategy director and former managing editor of the daily student newspaper, The Chronicle. Bey was the first intern on McClatchy’s North Carolina investigations team, writing about health, policy and gun violence for The Charlotte Observer and its sister papers in summer 2022. Her interests include public health, data, education and labor. She is from Huntersville, North Carolina.

Cameron Pugh is a senior at Williams College, where he studies English and Africana studies. Pugh currently serves as the managing editor of The Williams Record, and before that he served as a section editor for the paper’s arts section. He has been an investigative reporting intern at GBH News — at Boston’s local NPR station — where he contributed to covering labor trafficking in Massachusetts and beyond. He is from Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Irie Sentner is a junior at Columbia University studying political science and creative nonfiction. He serves as the university news editor for the Columbia Daily Spectator, is an incoming intern on the NBC News digital politics desk and previously interned for the New York Post. He is originally from Durango, Colorado.

Among the many highlights of the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts last month was Wolfgang Van Halen playing the riffs of his late father, Eddie Van Halen, as he ripped classic Van Halen tunes,…

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The Women of Distinction lunch will laud Lilian Davis, Laurna Godwin, Dr. Christine Jacobs, Tamara Keefe, Nancy Meyer, Dr. Margaret Reynolds and Carol Rogers.

The two girls, both 14, were shot in an alley behind the 4100 block of South Compton Avenue.

St. Louis Lambert International Airport last month said it anticipated that a major nonstop flight would come back on United Airlines. That's not going to happen.