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EAST ALTON - The East Alton and Wood River Fire Departments trained on a house in the 100 block of Cooper this past week. The house training was done with Wood River because the two agencies are always the first call to scenes for each other. "Wood River are our partners and it is good to work together in training like this," East Alton Fire Chief Tim Quigley said. "Training in fire service is very important. It is very hard to find a house to train on but this is on the demolition and it is clean enough to crawl around and do search and rescue and rapid invention training." Wood River Deputy Fire Chief Nate Kamp led the training and is an "excellent instructor," Quigley said. "We are happy to have someone of Deputy Fire Chief Kamp's experience leading the training," the fire chief explained. Quigley said it is rare to get a house like the one on Cooper in East Alton to train on. He also said he hopes to see some roof training in the near future.

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If Missouri voters approve Amendment 4 in the Nov. 8 general election, Kansas City will be required to increase funding for its police department.  But many voters may not understand that from the language they’ll see on the ballot.  Amendment 4 reads: “Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to authorize laws, passed before December 31, […]

The post Missouri voters to decide if the state can dictate increased Kansas City police funding appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Three people have died and several more were injured in a shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School Monday morning. St. Louis Interim Police Commissioner Mike Sack says one adult female and one teenage female died from gunfire this morning after a shooter entered the school. The woman died after EMS rushed her to a hospital.

Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: UK telecom regulator Ofcom is proposing that the country scale back popular net neutrality rules under the claim that the rules are harming innovation. The UK had adopted net neutrality as part of its membership in the EU. With that membership discarded, Ofcom is now claiming the […]

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All schools in the St. Louis Public Schools district have been placed on a hard lockdown for the rest of the school day following Monday morning’s shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

"I don't know if I'm going to live."

Parents of students at Central VPA and Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience can reunite with students following a shooting on campus.

Memorial service for radio newsman and prolific voiceover artist Robert R. Lynn will be noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Zack Theater, 3224 Locust Street.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has decided that Europe is likely to have a mild winter this year thanks to its third consecutive year of La Niña influence: Partly because of this, and partly because Europe has been successful in refilling its natural gas reserves, the price of gas has plummeted over the ...continue reading "Good news for Europe"

Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke will be able to recover nearly half his tab for the NFL’s legal settlement with St. Louis from the rest of league under fine points of the deal approved last week. Here's how.

According to a new report, homicide rates have risen by an average of nearly 10 percent in 50 of the most populous U.S. cities.

St. Louis-area and Missouri-based politicians are speaking out on social media following Monday's shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School left three people dead.