When the text came in, Sara Richter was chilling, watching American Idol with her family in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. “Is this real?” she recalls thinking. But then, Richter, 21, and a student at Mizzou, realized she had the same message on her SnapChat.
COTTAGE HILLS - Cottage Hills Fire Department was the first to respond to a blazing fire on 14th Street in Cottage Hills early this morning. A Mutual Aid Call was immediately dispatched and Rosewood Heights Fire, Bethalto, Meadowbrook, and Fosterburg also responded. Rosewood Heights Fire Chief Corey Williams said his department was called to the scene at 4:58 a.m. Tuesday. He described the home on fire as “a total loss.” The exact cause of the fire was not yet released.
It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk’s approach to dealing with complex issues is not to actually understand the complex realities behind them, but to simply say what he thinks an audience wants to hear, and perhaps relatedly, to simply accept the last thing that someone presented to him as the official state of things. […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers are the artists confirmed to headline the 2022 Austin City Limits Music Festival, which will take place October 7-9 and October 14-16 in Austin, Texas. The…
Betsperts, a crowdsourced sports betting advice platform, looked at some 900 venues of America’s biggest sports teams to see which were the highest rated.
Schnuck Markets announced it has been selected as a 2022 US Best Managed Company. Sponsored by Deloitte Private and the Wall Street Journal, the program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams.
On June 4, Nine PBS will premiere "Head Over Heels: Remembering Wrestling from the Chase." A screening party begins at 7 p.m. outside of the station studios
ST. LOUIS - Missouri is home to 26 of the 100 puppy mills mentioned in the Humane Society's 10th annual report on problem puppy mills. The report highlights 100 dog breeders to avoid due to their continuous problems. "We provide this updated report annually, not as a comprehensive inventory, but as an effort to inform the [...]
CHICAGO– Governor JB Pritzker has proclaimed May Childhood Drowning Prevention Month in Illinois, which serves as a good time to remind parents of the importance of constantly supervising children when they are in or near water to prevent the tragedy of accidental drowning deaths. In 2021, 18 Illinois children lost their lives to accidental drowning: eight in pools; three in bathtubs; two in lakes; two in ponds; and one each in a creek, a river, and a hot tub. All eight of the children who drowned in pools were age 5 and younger. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1 to 4 and the second leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1 to 14. For every child who dies from drowning, another eight receive emergency department care for non-fatal drowning. “A child can drown in seconds, in silence, and in as little as one inch of water,” said Illinois DCFS Director
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