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A new poll shows Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt with an 11% lead over Democratic candidate Trudy Busch Valentine.

ALTON - A food drive is set to begin at 6 p.m. Friday at Millennium Temple Church at 801 Blair Ave. in Alton. The food drive is being done by the church with Alderwoman Rosie Brown of the Fourth Ward in Alton. Brown said in times like today "we can’t take for granted everyone is comfortable with food items, etc." She said these items should help families who are needing some assistance at this time. The items include baby formula, cereal, fruit, snacks, and many nutritional items. Brown said the food will be distributed through the evening while supplies last.

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On Sept. 16, Everything Is Golden, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based artist Lizzy Martinez, opens as the first exhibition of the 2022-2023 Millstone Gallery

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The TISL morning team shares their favorite picks to get out and about for the weekend.

The colorful glass flowers, sea creatures, spirals, squiggly bits and bubbles artist Gail Crozier creates for her Stranded Glass line of jewelry vibrate with color and nearly hum with energy.

A Metro East high school has gone on lockdown four days in a row after mass violent threats were sent out to the student body. The week at Cahokia High School began with two such threats sent out on Monday, followed by another on Wednesday. Every day Monday through Thursday the school has gone into what administrators call a "soft lockdown."

We’ve noted how, as Netflix gets bigger and more powerful, it has increasingly behaved more like the cable giants (Comcast) it used to disrupt. For example, once it was big enough to pay telecom giants their pound of flesh, it stopped caring about stuff like net neutrality. But there’s no better example of Netflix’s pivot […]

In the late 1970s, inflation pushed wages into higher tax brackets and squeezed homeowners as property tax bills rose with the value of their residences. A southwest Missouri businessman named Mel Hancock, inspired by the California tax limitation ballot measure known as Proposition 13, enlisted the Missouri Farm Bureau and put his own plan for […]

The post After four decades, Hancock Amendment continues to shape Missouri tax policy appeared first on Missouri Independent.

New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and

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A circular at the Missouri Historical Society reveals surprisingly recent witchy paranoia.

Tip prompting, no matter the circumstance, continues to be an issue in the food service business.

ST. LOUIS - MoDOT said crashes and fatalities are at an all-time high across the state. Road and safety leaders are now urging drivers and lawmakers to make major changes. MoDOT's lead engineer Nicole Hood said Missouri hit its highest amount of fatal and serious crashes in more than 15 years. MoDOT said many of [...]

ST. LOUIS – The Pep Zone was at Soldan High School on Friday, September 30. FOX 2’s Chris Regnier hung out with the Tigers. He threw some t-shirts out to the crowd, as well as mini footballs. Head football coach Raymon Edwards then chatted about what it's like to be a Soldan Tiger. Regnier then [...]

Several parts of the region have been dealing with devastating flooding for years. That includes the West Alton area, where the Audubon Center at Riverlands was hit hard in 2019.

WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a Thursday hearing grilled the top leader of federal prisons on how the agency would address staffing shortages and reports of abuse of incarcerated people. “The Bureau (of Prisons) has been riddled with mismanagement and, sadly, with scandal,” said the chair of the committee, Illinois […]

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