ALTON - At the 16th annual Mississippi Earthtones Festival on Saturday, September 17, Sierra Club Illinois’ Three Rivers Project and Alton Main Street will award three local activists with the 2022 Confluence Conservation Leadership Award. Since 2007, the festival organizers recognize community members who have made significant contributions to environmental conservation in the Riverbend region. This year’s Confluence Conservation Leadership awardees include: Dr. Connie Frey Spurlock, Rachel Lappin, and Emily Ehley. Dr. Connie Frey Spurlock is a sociologist committed to dismantling hierarchies of oppression and building flourishing relationships in their place. She does this work by centering community-identified goals with meaningful learning experiences for area students. Frey Spurlock is founding director of the SIUE Successful Communities Collaborative (SSCC), a cross-disciplinary program based on the EPIC-N model—an award-winning university-community partnership
A national magazine has named a St. Louis haunted house one of the 13 scariest in the country. The Darkness, located in Soulard, earned fourth place in “America's Scariest Haunted Houses of 2022,” according to the publication, Hauntworld Magazine. The magazine lauded The Darkness for its variety of ways to spook customers.
The Amazon fulfillment center that dominates an industrial park off I-70 in St. Peters covers nearly 900,000 square feet — the equivalent of 16 football fields. Known within the Amazon empire as STL8, the cavernous facility employs 3,000 workers, and every day, 24/7, they are monitored, scanned, tracked, sensored, surveilled and beeped at within an inch of their lives. No offense is too small to escape detection and a write-up.
In 2016, Arizona state senator John Kavanaugh tried to make it much more difficult to record police officers. He authored a bill that would create a 20-foot “no recording” zone around cops, supposedly in the interest of officer safety. That bill went nowhere. It contained obvious First Amendment problems and reeked of protectionism that armed […]
The Complete 2022 Java Coder Bundle has 9 courses to help you kick-start your Java learning, providing you with the key concepts necessary to write code. You’ll learn about Java, Oracle, Apache Maven, and more. From applying the core concepts of object-oriented programming to writing common algorithms, you’ll foster real, employable skills as you make your way […]
Officials with the St. Louis County Department of Public Health are starting to administer a new COVID-19 vaccine booster shot that targets Omicron variants of the virus.
Major League Baseball only recognizes regular season achievements for its all-time leaderboards in terms of career statistics. That means stats such as home runs, hits, victories and more are recognized based on what players did during games outside of postseason.
CHICAGO — Governor JB Pritzker today issued an emergency disaster proclamation and activated approximately 75 members of the Illinois National Guard to ensure all state resources are available to support asylum seekers arriving nearly daily to Chicago from the State of Texas. The proclamation enables the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and other state agencies, in close coordination with the City of Chicago, Cook County, and other local governments, to ensure the individuals and families receive the assistance they need. This includes transport, emergency shelter and housing, food, health screenings, medical assessments, treatments, and other necessary care and services. “Today, I signed a disaster proclamation allowing the state to speed up the procurement of the immediate resources needed to help Chicago, Cook County, and other jurisdictions provide humanitarian assistance to the asylum seekers who are being sent to our state with no official advance notice
This morning, on the seventh and likely final day of the conspiracy-to-commit-murder trial of former reality TV star Tim Norman, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angie Danis called the death of Norman’s nephew Andre Montgomery Jr. an “execution.” She called Norman the “executioner,” his alleged plot to kill the young man a “hunt.” Tim Norman is accused of hiring people to kill his nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr. Montgomery was shot and killed outside a home recording studio in 2016. Both Montgomery and Norman previously appeared on the reality TV show Welcome to Sweetie Pie's.
Missouri officials said Wednesday Medicaid applications are now being processed within the federally-mandated timeline of 45 days, a step towards bringing the state into compliance with a mitigation plan to address a backlog of applications. Robert Knodell, the acting director of the Department of Social Services, broke the news to lawmakers Wednesday during a hearing […]
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