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An overnight fire led to significant damage at a plastic injection molding facility in Owensville, Missouri.

JEFFERSON CITY — Top priorities in the legislative session that begins Wednesday will be making it harder to amend Missouri’s Constitution, sports betting, and education issues ranging from attending out-of-district schools to how children are educated about racism.

BELLEVILLE - The law firm of Mathis, Marifian & Richter, Ltd., is pleased to announce that Allyson T. Schwab has been named shareholder effective January 1, 2023. Ally has been an associate with MM&R since February 2018. Ally focuses her practice in the areas of business law, including mergers and acquisitions, business succession planning, estate planning/administration, and real estate law. Ally enjoys the diversity of her practice, serving both individual and corporate clients. Ally graduated from the University of Illinois School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She then attended the University of Illinois Law School where she graduated magna cum laude. During her tenure at Illinois law, Ally won the awards for best oralist and best brief in the Frederick Green Moot Court Competition and competed on the College of Law’s National Moot Court Team. Ally is also the recipient of a Rickert Award for excellence in advocacy. She is licensed in Illinois

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The Missouri Attorney General’s office will operate in “unyielding pursuit of victory,” Andrew Bailey said Tuesday as he was being sworn into office.  Bailey, in a short speech before a crowd of about 150 gathered at the Missouri Supreme Court building, said he’s grateful to Gov. Mike Parson for appointing him. Speaking to reporters afterwards, […]

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CHICAGO - January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is partnering with The Power Project to train group home and residential care facility staff across Illinois on how to identify, intervene and prevent human trafficking among their youth in treatment. Nearly 1,000 congregate care staff in 37 facilities across the state completed Commercial Sexual Exploitation 101 training in 2022. “As a former youth in care, I realize that I could have very easily become a victim of human trafficking when I was younger, and now it’s my passion to look for ways to prevent youth from being trafficked in the first place. It is so much easier to keep a kid from being broken, rather than trying to put them back together,” said The Power Project Founder and CEO Mieko Taylor. “A key part of prevention is helping create safe spaces for youth to get help when they have been identified as a victim of trafficking.

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According to the U-Haul Growth Index, Missouri was the 15th most popular state for people to relocate to.

ALTON - From 6:30 to 8 p.m. on January 10, join Illinois Metro East Sierra Club staffers, Virginia Woulfe-Biele and Sally Burgess, as well as Diana Karin (Alton Yard Farms) to learn more about how the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act is being implemented across Illinois. CEJA is nation-leading legislation that promises to bring training and jobs to communities in and around the Metro East as well as accelerate the transition from a fossil fuel economy to renewable energy. Virginia, Sally, and Diana have all trained as CEJA Ambassadors and are deeply committed to helping others better understand this 900-page piece of legislation! To register to attend this event (in-person or via Zoom), go to the events calendar on our website: https://www.sierraclub.org/illinois/piasa-palisades . If you have questions, please contact Chris Krusa at 410-490-5024. Attendees and friends are invited to have dinner and meet the speakers at the Old Bakery Beer Company at 400 Landmarks Blvd., Alton, IL

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The nonprofit, which provides re-entry services to individuals released from incarceration, said the addition of Emerson's sprawling corporate retreat facility will aid in its effort to expand its national footprint.

It looks like Tom Petty’s Malibu beach house will soon have a new owner. TMZ reports someone has made an offer on the home, which the late rocker owned until his death in…

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Today, Deaver oversees four Three Kings Public House locations and two Casa de Tres Reyes spots, with one of each at the airport.

STAUNTON – The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) recently recognized Community Hospital of Staunton for its ongoing commitment to exceptional quality of care, during a ceremony held November 10th at the I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL. As part of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP), Community Hospital and other critical access hospitals were asked to voluntarily participate in four defined domains of quality outcomes. These four domains include: Patient Safety/Inpatient; Patient Engagement; Care Transitions; and Outpatient Measures. “Often, in rural hospitals, having a devoted staff member to abstract and submit this data can be both time-consuming and burdensome,” said Laura Fischer, ICAHN Flex Grant Project Manager. “This hospital realizes how important quality of care and an engaged staff is for its patients…From its top leadership on throughout the facility,

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ST. LOUIS - Following their insanely popular west coast arena run, comedy legends Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle announce the addition of five shows in 2023 to their wildly successful co-headlining U.S. tour. Produced by Live Nation, the new performances from arguably the two greatest stand-up comedians of their generation will take place this month in Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Memphis, Birmingham, and Charleston. TICKETS General sales for tickets will begin Friday, January 6 at 10AM local time on Ticketmaster.com . CHRIS ROCK & DAVE CHAPPELLE 2023 U.S. CO-HEADLINING TOUR: Fri Jan 20 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center ***Sun Jan 22 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center*** Mon Jan 23 – Memphis, TN – FedExForum Wed Jan 25 – Birmingham, AL – Legacy Arena Fri Jan 27 – Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum MORE ABOUT THE SHOWS No cell phones, cameras or recording devices will be allowed at this show. Upon

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday said he would not halt the execution of Amber McLaughlin, 49, who is set to die for stalking a former girlfriend and stabbing her to death nearly 20 years ago.

ST. LOUIS - Following a successful launch in its hometown area of St. Louis, Missouri, Schnuck Markets, Inc. is expanding its “Flexforce” employment option to additional locations in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. In addition to the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan stores, Schnucks now offers the Flexforce employment option in the following areas: Illinois Alton, Belleville, Bethalto, Bloomington, Cahokia, Centralia, Champaign, Cherry Valley, Collinsville, Columbia, DeKalb, Edwardsville, Fairview Heights, Godfrey, Granite City, Loves Park, Mahomet, Normal, O’Fallon, Rockford, Roscoe, Savoy, Swansea, Urbana, Waterloo, and Wood River Indiana Evansville and Newburgh Missouri Cape Girardeau, Sullivan, and Union Schnucks Flexforce teammates can optimize their work schedules by selecting shifts and store locations that best fit their personal schedules while creating opportunities for growth and learning at a pace determined b

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SPRINGFIELD - Madison County has been issued a tentative property assessment equalization factor of 1.0618, according to David Harris, Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue. The property assessment equalization factor, often called the “multiplier”, is the method used to achieve uniform property assessments among counties, as required by law. This equalization is particularly important because some of the state’s 6,600 local taxing districts overlap into two or more counties (e.g. school districts, junior college districts, fire protection districts). If there were no equalization among counties, substantial inequities among taxpayers with comparable properties would result. State law requires property in Illinois to be assessed at one-third (1/3) of its market value. Farm property is assessed differently, with farm homesites and dwellings subject to regular assessing and equalization procedures, but with farmland and farm buildings assessed according to

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Sunday, January 8, would have been Elvis Presley’s 88th birthday, and it’s being celebrated with special events this week. The celebration kicks off Thursday at Elvis’ Graceland in Memphis with a…

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The execution is set for Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre.