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A local school board faced tough questions Wednesday night about a more than $7 million budget shortfall. 

Thursday will mark the first-ever Opening Day matchup against interleague foes St. Louis Cardinals and Minnesota Twins. It will also feature a head-to-head pitching battle against close friends Sonny Gray and Pablo López.

A St. Louis man led a massive scheme to buy cars with fraudulent checks and steal the identities of the original victims, thus re-victimizing them.

Were it not so obviously the product of something nefarious, it would be entertaining to watch how private companies react to the Trump administration’s declaration of the end of all things DEI. The truth is that Trump’s reach for this sort of thing simply doesn’t extend past the federal government, legally speaking. That doesn’t mean […]

More people are turning to testosterone replacement therapy. In fact, it’s estimated that prescriptions for the treatment exceeded 11 million in 2024.

ehab Bar and Grill, a longtime St. Louis Pridefest partner, is just one of the local establishments pushing back against Anheuser-Busch's

ALTON – A free new outdoor workout center is officially coming to the Alton riverfront. Alton City Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement between the city and Alton Township. Under the agreement, the township will provide $100,000 for the construction of a Fitness Court, as previously reported on Riverbender.com . What Is A Fitness Court? Developed by the National Fitness Campaign (NFC), a Fitness Court is basically an outdoor gym which is free and open for the public to use. Seven different “movement zones” feature equipment focused on certain workouts and muscle groups, such as pull-up bars for upper body workouts, platforms for squats and lunges, and more. The NFC claims each court is “designed to provide a full body workout in only seven minutes.” The City of Jerseyville opened its own Fitness Court in 2022 during the first phase of its Lions Club/Wittman Park improvement plan . Shown above

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The write-in candidates for the Ward 1 City Council seat, C Wiley and Marie Long, have collaborated on a statement, and asked it to be posted on 40 South. The election is April 8. “A note from the candidates for the Ward 1 City Council seat, C Wiley and Marie Long: Although we are running […]

The verdict came on March 25, which involved a malpractice case that left a child permanently brain-damaged.