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If you want to visit The Zoo this summer, there are some things you should know.

If a dispute over retirement benefits isn't resolved, nearly 2,500 union workers at the aerospace giant's St. Louis operations could go on strike as soon as Monday. Here's what's at the root of the issue.

Here is Hilbert sprawled across the newspaper this morning as Marian is attempting to solve her puzzles. In the background, Charlie is waiting for a chance to pounce.

A limited-edition vinyl reissue of David Bowie's 1977 album "Heroes" will drop on October 14 in celebration of its 45th anniversary. Pressed on gray vinyl, the reissue will only be available…

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Today on TAP: The JetBlue buyout of low-cost Spirit Airlines faces certain action from Biden’s reinvigorated antitrust officials.

Grass is too wet to watch "The Sandlot" on Art Hill tonight. "The Sandlot" and "A League of Their Own" (previously canceled due to weather) have been rescheduled to be shown indoors.

GODFREY - When Cathy Keller visited the ribbon cutting for OSF Moeller Cancer Center in 2019, she had no idea she’d be using the services two years later. Now, the 66-year-old Godfrey resident is telling other breast cancer patients: you can get through it, too. “You have to roll with the punches,” Keller says. The numbers Heather Chambers is a breast health navigator at Moeller Cancer Center and was with Keller from the beginning. She, too, is a breast cancer survivor. Chambers says one in eight women will develop breast cancer. Older people are at a higher risk than younger, but younger people typically have more aggressive cancer. “A huge, huge problem,” as Chambers puts it. Chambers explains that woman make hormones, especially estrogen, all their life. “A lot of the hormones in body are like a fuel to a cancer cell,” Chambers explains. “When you get an abnormal cell, estrogen in our bodies fuels that cell and produces

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ST. LOUIS – Blues for Kids, the charitable trust of the St. Louis Blues, has launched a 50/50 raffle and online auction to support the United Way Flood Relief Fund. Raffle tickets are on sale now through Friday, Aug. 5 at 6 p.m. and can be purchased by going to stlouisblues.com/5050 . Tickets are 314 for $90, 125 for $50, 50 for $25, 10 for $10, or 3 for $5. Fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets early for a chance to win early bird prizes that will be drawn throughout the duration of the raffle. Early bird prize winners remain eligible to win the grand prize of 50 percent of the pot. Early bird prizes include a Niko Mikkola autographed game-used stick, an Alexey Toropchenko autographed game-used gloves, and a Vladimir Tarasenko autographed game-used stick. All participants must be 18 years of age or older to play and must be located in Missouri or Illinois at the time of purchase. Winning raffle number will be announced online at stlouisblues.com and on Blues Social

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Sammy Hagar and his band The Circle have unveiled plans to release a new studio album titled Crazy Times this fall and made the title track available as an advance…

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GODFREY – Students from Lewis and Clark Community College’s YouthBuild program responded to a need for raised garden beds at Jerseyville’s Cheney Mansion, home of the Jersey County Historical Society. The garden beds and surrounding fence, which were constructed from reclaimed wood, will be used to grow heirloom produce in order to demonstrate life in a pioneer kitchen. YouthBuild Construction Trainer Greg Echols expressed his pride in the work the students did and the respect they showed to their peers and everyone involved with the project. “I am incredibly proud of these students and their hard work on this project,” Echols said. “They have been putting in the work to learn about the tongue-and-groove construction method and we were all very happy to be part of putting the final project together at Cheney Mansion.” According to Jersey County Historical Society Vice-President Beth McGlasson, the students’ efforts will help the

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Police have made an arrest after a deadly shooting on I-55 in south St. Louis.

An FBI raid in St. Louis is connected to a federal indictment of a Russian man wanted for a political influence campaign targeting local elections.

The recent rains have ruined one more thing this week: Saint Louis Art Museum announced today that tonight's Art Hill Film Series, scheduled to be The Sandlot, is cancelled. "The heavy rains have made it unsafe to hold any large event near the museum," SLAM wrote in a Facebook post. The Charles Glenn Duo was also expected to perform tonight.

We all have our favorites, and Obamacare is one of mine. So I was very happy to see that, against all odds, the latest version of the Democratic spending bill¹ includes a three-year extension of the expanded ACA subsidies originally introduced last year in the American Rescue Plan. These subsidies ensure that no one has ...continue reading "Obamacare gets a boost in the Inflation Reduction Act"

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Public health officials’ international hunt for clues in the case of polio that paralyzed a New York man has turned up a big one: The virus that infected him matches the genetic fingerprint of poliovirus found in sewage samples taken in London and in the Jerusalem area, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization told ProPublica on Friday.

It is not yet clear how the virus moved from one place to another or where it was first.

“That is still being investigated,” Oliver Rosenbauer, communications officer for WHO’s Global Polio Eradication Initiative, said in an email.

The hunt for answers in countries thousands of miles apart shows how viruses can hopscotch across the globe. Polio is highly contagious and, because the majority of infections cause no symptoms, it can circulate silently through communities where there is no routine monitoring.

ProPublica reported on Tuesday that U.S. public health agencies generally haven’t tested sewage for evidence of polio, relying on high vaccination rates to protect Americans from the disease, but there are signs of cracks in that shield, both here and abroad.

Waiting for patients to show up with symptoms can be perilous: By the time there’s a case of paralysis, 100 to 1,000 infections may have occurred, public health experts say. New York health officials began screening wastewater only after the case there was identified.

The New York case was the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. It was discovered after a young man in Rockland County, a suburban area northwest of New York City, sought medical treatment in June for weakness and paralysis. He had not been vaccinated against polio. It was well into July when tests confirmed he had polio.

Genetic sequencing confirmed that he had what’s called vaccine-derived polio. This kind of polio is linked to an oral polio vaccine that hasn’t been used in the U.S. since 2000. The oral vaccine, still used in other parts of the world, relies on weakened polio viruses to trigger the immune system and create protective antibodies. In rare instances, when the weakened viruses circulate in people who have not had the vaccine or are under-immunized, they can revert to a form that can sicken unvaccinated people.

Public health officials said the traces of poliovirus found in sewage samples from early June in Rockland County and greater Jerusalem were still too weak to cause paralytic polio. It’s not clear where the virus evolved, becoming powerful enough to cause the Rockland County patient’s illness.

A spokesperson for Rockland County’s Health Department said she could not confirm whether the man had traveled to London or Jerusalem this year.

Another mystery in the case is that like the U.S., the U.K. hasn’t used the oral polio vaccine in years. Instead, both use only an injectable vaccine that contains inactivated viruses and cannot cause vaccine-derived polio. Though Israel does use oral polio vaccine, the version it uses does not contain the strain of polio, known as Type 2, that’s turned up in the sewage samples or that infected the New York man.

New York officials say they are now testing both stored sewage samples, which were collected as part of the effort to track COVID-19, and more recent ones for signs of polio.

While high vaccination rates in the U.S. have made the risk of polio remote, some communities have far lower vaccination rates than the country overall. Rockland County in 2018 and 2019 struggled with an extended outbreak of measles — also preventable with vaccination — that was concentrated in its Orthodox Jewish community. Some news organizations have reported that the man paralyzed with polio is a member of that community.

Most Americans aren’t old enough to remember, but in the first half of the 20th century, polio ranked among the nation’s most feared diseases. It victimized mostly young children, attacking their spinal cords, brain stems or both, and left thousands with irreversible paralysis. After the first vaccine was approved in 1955, U.S. cases dropped precipitously within a couple of years.

Players will be able to experience six different worlds in VR.