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Biden's Supreme Court pick set to make history

2 years 10 months ago
) -- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, is set to make history Monday when she kicks off a days-long hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Jordain Carney

Alton Main Street Announces An Upcoming Seminar On Access To Capital, The First Session In Its New Small Business Hot Topics Educational Series

2 years 10 months ago
ALTON - Alton Main Street is announcing an in-person training on Access to Capital, which will be held on Monday, March 21st from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Post Commons, located at 300 Alby Street in Alton, IL, in its lower level co-working space called GroundWorks. During this session, small business owners and budding entrepreneurs will learn sources and criteria for commercial bank and SBA loans, prepare to apply for grants and pitch to angel investors, and receive information on government resources for veteran-, woman-, and POC-owned businesses. Presenter Mary Louise Helbig's career encompasses executive leadership positions in business development for corporations and startups. Most recently she was the Executive Director of ITEN, one of the founding Entrepreneur Support Organizations in the St. Louis region. To register for this event, and find video recordings of all sessions at a later date, please visit: www.DowntownAlton.com/Events/SmallBusinessResources . “Alton Main Street

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Tourism Bureau Welcomes New Destination Sales Manager

2 years 10 months ago
ALTON - Laura Scarborough has joined the Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau as the new Destination Sales Manager. Scarborough’s role with the Bureau will include highlighting southwest Illinois to potential domestic and international group travelers as well as attracting meetings/conferences to the six-county bureau region. “We are looking ahead to ways we can grow the region and we know group travel and meetings are areas we already have a strong presence,” Cory Jobe, President/CEO of the tourism bureau said. “Laura will help keep us front and center in group travel planning and we are excited to have her on the team.” Scarborough has been the owner of a catering company based in Columbia, MO, The Farmers Daughter. She has also worked as the community sponsorship and donation manager for Landmark Bank, and as the finance manager for the Heart of Missouri United Way, both in Columbia, MO. She most recently worked as the branch office administrator for

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Suspicious package reported at St. Mary's HS not located

2 years 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said a suspicious package was reported Monday morning at St. Mary's High School, but the Bomb and Arson unit did not locate one during their search. Students were seen standing outside St. Mary's High School in south St. Louis at about 9:15 a.m. The school is [...]
Monica Ryan

Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit Against Marathon Pipe Line LLC Over Oil Spill

2 years 10 months ago
CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced a lawsuit against Marathon Pipe Line LLC (Marathon) alleging that the company created a substantial danger to the environment and public health and welfare when crude oil was released from a pipeline near Edwardsville, Illinois. Raoul’s lawsuit was filed in Madison County Circuit Court and includes allegations of creating a substantial danger to the environment and public health and welfare, water pollution, creating offensive conditions, open dumping and waste disposal at an improper facility. Raoul’s lawsuit alleges Marathon violated the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and endangered public health and the environment by causing or allowing a discharge of heavy crude oil to Cahokia Creek in an area that includes residential neighborhoods, commercial properties, agricultural properties, forested areas and a wetland. “Marathon’s significant oil spill has created a public health risk by exposing

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As CAFO lawsuit heads to Missouri Supreme Court, counties weigh options

2 years 10 months ago

As a fight over who can regulate industrial hog and cattle operations awaits action by the Missouri Supreme Court, counties that sought more stringent protections against them wait in limbo.  The Missouri Supreme Court is expected to hear an appeal by county commissioners who sought to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, after a […]

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Allison Kite

Cable TV Companies Lost Nearly 5 Million Subscribers in 2021

2 years 10 months ago
Remember when the cable and broadcast industry insisted that “cord cutting” (ditching traditional cable TV subscriptions) wasn’t actually a real trend? Or how, once they finally acknowledged it was a real thing, insisted that it was just a temporary fad that would abate once Millennials started having babies? Years later and amazingly enough the very […]
Karl Bode

No wrongdoing or foul play in death of Cora Faith Walker

2 years 10 months ago
A preliminary investigation into the death of a former Missouri state representative from the St. Louis area has found no evidence of wrongdoing or foul play and police are now awaiting a final toxicology report before taking any further steps.
Ty Hawkins