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J6 Suspect Challenges FBIโ€™s Geofence Warrant, Exposing The Massive Scale Of The Fedโ€™s Data Haul

2 years 11 months ago
Geofence warrants are popular. They’re also controversial. Cops have discovered Google houses plenty of location data. Going to cell phone providers is a bit tricky, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision, which erected a warrant requirement for acquiring weeks or months of location data. But geofence warrants don’t have a particular target. The only […]
Tim Cushing

St. Louis Hills Man Designs Security App to Combat Crime

2 years 11 months ago
After someone carjacked one of his closest neighbors a few years ago, Tom Scheifler had enough. His neighborhood, St. Louis Hills, did not feel the same as it did when he and his wife moved there about 30 years ago. Crime had become more and more frequent.
Monica Obradovic

Hereโ€™s the truth about drug shortages

2 years 11 months ago
Vox reports today on our crisis of pharmaceutical shortages: According to a 2022 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “on average, the number of ongoing drug shortages has been increasing and are lasting longer.” The root cause of that problem, per a report from the Food and Drug Administration, is the ...continue reading "Here’s the truth about drug shortages"
Kevin Drum

ISP District 18 Announces Results Of Special Enforcement

2 years 11 months ago
LITCHFIELD – Illinois State Police (ISP) District 18 Commander, Captain Mark Gillock, announces the results of Special Traffic Enforcement Patrols (sTEP) in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties during November. These sTEPs allowed the ISP to provide increased enforcement for impaired driving, occupant restraint, speeding, and distracted driving violations during the National “Click It or Ticket” Campaign. Violations Enforcement Activity Occupant Restraint Violations 8 Driving Under the Influence and Drug/Alcohol-Related Citations 0 Speeding Citations and Warnings 80 Distracted Driving Citations and Warnings 1 Total Citations 107 Total Written Warnings 19 Driving the posted speed limit, sober, not distracted, and buckled up will save your life and the lives of many others. This project is funded through the Illinois Department of Transportation.

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MoDOT closing I-70/Cave Springs interchange for girder work this week

2 years 11 months ago
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - Drivers in St. Charles County may experience delays overnight Wednesday and Thursday, as crews place girders at the Interstate 70/Cave Springs overpass. Beginning Dec. 7 at 9 p.m., crews will begin placing girders over eastbound I-70 at Cave Springs Road until 5 a.m. Girders will be placed over the westbound [...]
Kevin S. Held

Grants Approved for St. Charles County 2019 Flooding Recovery

2 years 11 months ago
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:ย  Between April 29 and July 5, 2019, St. Charles County was inundated by floodwater. Approximately 90,000 acres across the county and hundreds of residents were affected. To aid those residents, the county was offered a grant agreement by the Missouri Department of Economic Development under its federal disaster action plan. But […]
Shruthi Beedu

Is It Possible To Get Fair Coverage Of The Link Tax Bill When The News Orgs Covering It Are The Main Beneficiaries?

2 years 11 months ago
We’ve been covering the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), which is a blatant handout by Congress in the form of a link tax that would require internet companies pay news orgs (mainly the vulture capitalist orgs that have been buying up local newspapers around the country, firing most of the journalists and living off […]
Mike Masnick