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The August 20 fest gives attendees the opportunity to explore art spaces and small businesses on Cherokee while sipping on craft brews curated by St. Louis Hop Shop.

Today on TAP: There’s the Iranian brand and the Republican brand.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are teasing the first preview of the band's upcoming album, Return of the Dream Canteen. The "Californication" rockers will release a new track called "Tippa My…

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GODFREY - Keith Sherman and Kerry Doyle, historical rail enthusiasts, with Close to the Steam Division headquarters of Alton, will host the 2022 Annual Meeting for the Illinois Traction Society on Saturday, August 20. The event will be another excursion to exploring the history of the Illinois Terminal. The annual evening informal dinner will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, August 19, at Tony's Ranch House, 3300 Godfrey Road, Godfrey. The members will pay for the meal served at that time. On Saturday, registration for the day begins at 8 a.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1713 Stamper Lane in Godfrey. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the day's event begins with a railroad memorabilia swap meet where items will be offered for sale or trade, appealing to both collector and modeler. At 1 p.m. Saturday, a question-and-answer clinic will be held as Dale Jenkins and Gene Carpenter offer insight on how articles, are conceptualized, researched, drafted, and finalized for publication. Following

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Several months after requesting action over police pursuit policies in the St. Louis area, the NAACP reports some progress in talks around the topic.

Five missing kids from the St. Louis area were recovered as part of a nationwide operation led by the FBI that recovered 84 victims of child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation offenses, and found 37 missing children.

Rebekah A. Freese, MSW, LCSW, Ph.D., who recently joined Alsana as its senior regional executive director, specializes in eating disorder and behavioral health care in St. Louis. Alsana, a national eating recovery community and treatment provider with three locations in St. Louis, has the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for its eating disorder programming. Freese brings more than two decades of professional mental health care experience, service and innovation to the Alsana team, demonstrating…

One of the St. Louis region's largest health systems has hired an experienced administrator from Texas as its next senior vice president and system chief nurse executive.

St. Louis city officials and the Urban League are co-hosting a warrant reset and second chance job fair in downtown later this month.

The shooting happened at the Conoco on the 4300 block of Broadway, police say.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is hoping to avoid any special session drama.  As he prepares to reconvene the legislature next month to debate a $700 million tax cut — with details about the plan expected to be announced as early as this week — Parson is hoping to avoid pitfalls that undermined a pair of […]

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A lack of space forces the county to spend thousands to transport and store bodies at other locations, including area funeral homes.

SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement after the Department of Education announced the widespread discharge of all remaining federal student loans, totaling $3.9 billion in relief, for those who attended ITT Technical Institute (ITT Tech) from January 2005 through the for-profit college’s closure in September 2016: “It’s been almost six years since the disastrous collapse of the infamous for-profit college chain, ITT Tech. When the ITT Tech house of cards fell in a cloud of scandal, students and taxpayers were the ones left holding the bag. After years of urging the Department of Education to act, I’m relieved to see that these students are finally receiving the relief they are owed after being conned by ITT Tech’s exploitive marketing tactics and faulty degrees.” As a result of today’s announcement, 208,000 borrowers will receive $3.9 billion in full loan discharges, including

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ST. LOUIS – School bells will be calling students back to the classroom soon and the American Red Cross of Greater St. Louis has steps everyone can take to help kids remain safe as they head back to school. As parents get ready for the start of a new school year, it’s a good time to think about emergencies, such as weather-related disasters, and draw up an emergency plan for their household. Know what the emergency plan is at your child’s school and develop a family emergency plan so everyone will know who to contact and where to go if something happens during the school day. Details are available at redcross.org/prepare . “There are a lot of things to think about for the start of a busy new school year, but don’t forget to include safety,” said Beth Elders, Executive Director, Red Cross of Greater St. Louis. “We ask parents and guardians to consider familiarizing their children with these measures to help keep them safe as they head back

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Road rage leads to one man shooting a taxi driver Monday afternoon in north St. Louis.

A date hasn't yet been set for the 2026 event at Bellerive, but it will take place in August officials said.

A plan to bring affordable high-speed internet to underserved communities has frozen.

CARROLLTON - A detailed history of Abraham Lincoln’s experiences and connections in Greene County is scheduled for release this fall. Acclaimed writer Tom Emery of Carlinville is releasing Lincoln in Greene County, Illinois, which features a wide variety of stories on the sCarrixteenth President in Greene County, many of which have never been covered. The book is slated for release and distribution in September. This fast-moving, illustrated, documented work analyzes the ties of Lincoln to some of the earliest names of Greene County history, including friendships with Jacob Fry, Edward Baker, C.M. Smith, and David Woodson, as well as political relationships with prosecutor Josiah Lamborn and members of the Carlin family. Lincoln’s speaking appearances in Carrollton are also discussed, as are voting records and the county’s reaction to his assassination. The role of Greene County in Lincoln’s near-duel at Alton in 1842 is examined, as are his court cases in th

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A decade or so ago you couldn’t go even a week without a major U.S. cable company finding its technicians in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. You’d routinely see technicians that fall asleep on the job, blow up homes, occasionally murder people and get arrested for torturing and spray painting kittens (seriously). And while major U.S. cable companies have […]