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EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville High's distance runner Ryan Watts recently had a weekend to remember. On a Friday night in a showcase meet at Carmel, Ind., Watts broke the school's 3,200-meter run record previously held by Stephen Pifer since 2003 when he won the race at 8:54.09, then came back on Saturday to win the 1,600 meters at the Winston Brown Invitational meet at home, winning with a time of 4:19.93, with teammate Geo Patrylak coming in second at 4:27.49. Watts is the iCAN Clinic Male Athlete of the Month For Edwardsville High School. Watts was very happy with the outcome of the record on that Friday. "I'm feeling good," Watts said in an interview that followed the 1,600-meter race. "It's been a full day to recover. Now, this meet is nice to get a good mile in." The race Watts competed in had a loaded field, with a pair of state champions running with him and Patrylak. "It was great competition down at Carmel," Watts said. "Two All-Americans, a couple of state championships

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Carman Deck's lawyers have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, set for next week.

BRIGHTON – The Piasa Southwestern baseball team picked up a 13-3 win over the Pana Panthers to remain undefeated in South Central Conference play and boost their season record to 12-9. Sophomore Marcus Payne started on the mound for the Piasa Birds and pitched the entire six-inning game throwing nine K’s along the way while only walking one. “Pretty much everything was working today,” Payne said postgame. Payne is the Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Male Athlete Of Month for Southwestern High School. His mixture of pitches proved to be troubling for the Panthers as he held them to just three runs. “We we’re really productive at the plate today, we had a couple sac flies,” he added. He produced one of them in the second inning that tied the game back up at 2-2 after going down 2-0 in the first inning. Offensively he went 1-2 with a hit and two RBIs. He mentioned that these conference wins are huge saying that Piasa Southwestern

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Michael Hayden used a derogatory slur for homosexual men, struck another man with his car, and led police on a chase, charges said.

Roderick Provenchain struck coworker with four-way lug wrench while yelling "I'm gonna kill you," charges said.

Antwoine Bozeman Sr. admitted killing Robert Wilkes in June 2020 in St. Louis.

The spring is the perfect time to work on home improvements in and outside of the home. Starting Saturday morning that’s what Rebuilding Together St. Louis did for 18 homes in need of assistance throughout St. Louis.

The march and fair at Kiener Plaza comes after legislation banning certain material and topics in curriculum, including race and sex.

Das Bevo holds their 1st annual Mai Fest celebrating the start of spring and Biergarten. With spring comes the start of patio season again.

Longer Fridays and Saturdays are some of the changes visitors will see as the summer favorite returns after two years of pandemic measures.

“It’s long overdue,” an attendee said about Saturday's remembrance of an 1836 lynching in St. Louis.

GLEN CARBON – Junior Jackson Rodgers and the Father McGivney High School baseball team are on a tear right now winning 15 straight with their last loss coming a month ago against Alton Marquette. Since then the Griffins have outscored their opposition 181-32. Rodgers has been named the Griffins' Byron, Carlson, Petri and Kalp LLC Male Athlete of the Month. “It was tough to go out and loss to Marquette, especially with the rivalry that goes on with the two schools, but we’ve really buckled down,” Rodgers said after a 17-6 win over Metro-East Lutheran. “Guys are playing selfless now and we’re winning games as a team. I feel like early in the season we were playing as individuals but when we’re playing as a team, we’re hard to beat.” They just recently beat the Metro-East Lutheran High School Knights by a score of 17-6 Friday afternoon (April 22). Rodgers went 2-3 on the day with two runs and three RBI’s. The highlight of th

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