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Washington University in St. Louis has been ranked #1 in the Princeton Review's Best College Dorms and Best Quality of Life lists, as well as highly for its undergraduate entrepreneurship programs.

EDWARDSVILLE - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will welcome its newest class of Cougars with a five-day Welcome Week celebration starting Wednesday, August 13, 2025. The event, held on the Edwardsville campus at 1 Hairpin Drive, aims to introduce students to campus life through a variety of activities running through Sunday, August 17. The festivities will include a range of events designed to engage and entertain the incoming students. Highlights include the New Student Convocation, Parade, and Class Photo on Friday, August 15, at 3 p.m. in the Vadalabene Center. Chancellor James T. Minor and Provost Denise Cobb will officially open the 2025-2026 academic year, celebrating over 1,000 new students with music, giveaways, and free SIUE t-shirts. Following the convocation, a parade will proceed through Stratton Quad to the Cougar Statue for the traditional class photo. On the same day, hypnotist Evan Gambardella will perform at 8 p.m. in the Meridian Ballroom of the Morris University

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The Missouri Auditor's Office will review a $229,000 separation payout reportedly approved for former Francis Howell School District Superintendent Mike Dominguez, who resigned just weeks before the new school year.

Two men have been charged with assault after allegedly hitting a woman and a man at the Missouri State Fair on Saturday.

Today on TAP: In federalizing the D.C. police, Trump seeks some state-sponsored violence.

In what's perhaps the clearest indication that Billy Joel will be spending most of his time in Florida in the future, his motorcycle shop in Oyster Bay, Long Island, is closing down.Newsday reports that…

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BETHALTO – After more than four decades with the village, Ken Balsters’s resignation as Bethalto Village Attorney was unanimously approved on Monday night, Aug. 11, 2025. “This one’s a little hard for me because we are coming to the end of an era,” Mayor Gary Bost said. “The gentleman sitting next to me has been here for 42 years, and he has announced his resignation.” The mayor presented Balsters with a commemorative engraved glass plaque, which he presented “with grateful appreciation of 42 years of remarkable service.” “Your dedication, professionalism, and commitment have had a lasting impact on the Village of Bethalto and the many lives you have touched,” Bost added. “Know that your legacy will continue to inspire for generations to come.” The mayor then presented Balsters with the award, and the two shook hands as attendees erupted into applause. The longtime village attorney’s resignation

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Investments will accelerate affordable housing production and preservation in neighborhoods across St. Louis

Jesse Stoneking, a former mob member-turned FBI informant, helped the FBI put 30 members of the St. Louis mafia behind bars in the early 1980s, and was later found dead in his car in 2003.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s request to reinstate restrictions on abortion in the state, ordering him to turn to a state appeals court instead.  Bailey was hoping the state’s highest court would block a temporary injunction issued by Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang on July […]

Life Couriers wants to store and distribute medications used to treat prostate cancer and leukemia from a warehouse along Highway 370.

A dog missing for over a year was reunited with its owner at Stray Rescue of St. Louis thanks to a microchip.

A Missouri Lottery player won a $2 million scratchers ticket from a Schnucks in Richmond Heights, providing for his kids in a way he never thought he would be able to.

Amidst the current batch of child safety bills in Congress, a familiar name appears: the STOP CSAM Act. It was previously introduced in 2023, when I wrote about the threat the bill posed to the availability of strong encryption and consequently to digital privacy in the post-Roe v. Wade era. Those problems endure in the […]

Become a language expert with the Babbel Language Learning deal. However you choose to access your 10K+ hours of online language education, you’ll be able to choose from 14 languages. Want to try your hand at all of them? Knock yourself out — you’ll have a lifetime to get it done. And you can tackle […]

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is set to kick off his summer tour with his band The Joe Perry Project, and he’s just announced a last-minute lineup change.The tour was supposed to feature Stone Temple Pilots’ Eric Kretz on drums, but…

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump nominated conservative economist E.J. Antoni to fill the top spot at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after abruptly firing the previous statistician following a disappointing jobs report earlier this month. Trump announced the nominee late Monday on his Truth Social platform, stating that “Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will […]

About 10 million people, mostly Medicaid recipients, will lose access to health insurance and 2.4 million fewer people per month will participate in a federal food aid program under Republicans’ massive tax cut and spending law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday. Median-income U.S. households will see a small overall gain in resources from […]