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Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin. Researchers have known that for decades. But the substance stuck around for decades in everyday products such as paint and gasoline.  One big reason: The …

Federal indictment of Lewis Reed, Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad challenges tradition of aldermanic courtesy.

Police say a vehicle was towing a disabled moped without working taillights before the collision.

The Joplin woman was murdered on May 29, 2016, by her former landlord.

Munchin’ and Musing When I eat out, I consider a number of things: menu, ambiance, location, hours/days, seating, parking, service, my guests’ preferences. I seldom get the whole package. But I come near. Most often, I select one of the places shown below, depending on what I’ve a hankerin’ for at the time. Let’s Eat... 

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Boyd's lawyer initially said Thursday he would not resign from his post on the board.

EDWARDSVILLE – On Friday, May 27, the Illinois Industrial Biotechnology Partnership Act was signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker and establishes the Industrial Biotechnology Public-Private Partnership as a State-sponsored board consisting of specified members to promote and market Illinois as a destination for research, development and commercialization for industrial biotechnology. The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center (NCERC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been a leading institution for research in industrial biotechnology in Illinois and the United States since its doors opened in 2003. Today, it celebrates the signing of this historic legislation. The bill was passed unanimously by both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate with bipartisan support. The Partnership will consist of 12 members, including the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Illinois Department of

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NORMAL - In Illinois as elsewhere, Civil War troops came from a wide variety of occupations. In one regiment, many men were future teachers. The 33rd Illinois Infantry, which originated at Illinois State University in Normal, was famously known as the “Teacher’s Regiment” since a high number of the men were students. The nickname was a nod to the original purpose of Illinois State, which was teacher training. A number of men from the Riverbend area were in the 33rd, which holds a special place in the history of both the university and the state. The outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861 riveted the university, which had been founded only four years before as the state’s first public institution of higher learning. Many students remembered that the war was foremost on everyone’s minds, and students could barely concentrate on their studies. President Lincoln’s first call for troops was for a ninety-day enlistment, but it soon became apparent

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Travell Hill was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and another count of murder-for-hire in the 2016 killing of Andre Montgomery Jr.

EDWARDSVILLE - Lincoln Middle School math teacher Faith Jordan has her dream job, is living in a community she loves and will soon have a new home that she can call her own. The path to get there, however, has been far from easy. In 2018, Jordan's life fell apart. She had moved to Colorado with her then husband and three daughters but ended up getting divorced, which left with her little money and bad credit. “We were transient for a couple years. We stayed with a family for a few months until we could make it back to my parents in St. Louis and then stayed with another family.” All while that was happening, Jordan finished her degree at UMSL to teach middle school math. She did her student teaching at Ferguson Middle School but had gotten her provisional license so she could get paid while teaching. Her goal during this time was to return to the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon area and to work for District #7. “We were living in Ferguson when everything

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"We are definitely seeing a surge in new cases," said Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, the director of health for the city of St. Louis.

Bill McClellan learns a lesson on the mean streets of Webster Groves: “Be careful out there.”

MADISON, Ill. - NASCAR comes to St. Louis this weekend, and the inaugural "Enjoy Illinois 300" race is sold-out. The race will take place Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Madison, Illinois at the World Wide Technology Raceway. On Sunday, fans will pack more than 57,000 seats and 1,200 campsites. There are also several exciting events ahead of Sunday's race, from [...]

EAST ST. LOUIS, Il. - Bubba Wallace, a popular NASCAR Cup Series driver, spent the day visiting with local children. He met with students at an East St. Louis McDonald’s. He posed for pictures, signed autographs, and certainly made a positive impact. It’s a rare day when there’s more people gathered in the McDonald’s parking [...]

Boyd submitted his resignation despite giving every indication during Friday’s board meeting that he planned to stay on while fighting in court.