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BELLEVILLE - – Illinois American Water is encouraging customers to participate in the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day this coming Saturday, April 30, 2022. Customers are encouraged to drop off unwanted medications at approved collection sites so they can be incinerated. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends having unwanted medications incinerated. Flushing medications down the toilet and throwing them in the trash are discouraged. The event is Saturday, April 30, 2022, from 10 AM to 2 PM. Participating Illinois Take Back Day collection sites can be located here. Take Back Day events help keep medications from getting into the wrong hands and provide an opportunity for medication to be disposed of in an environmentally-friendly way. Proper disposal also helps prevent medications from being flushed down the toilet or poured down a drain. Rachel Bretz, director of water quality and environmental compliance for Illinois

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SPRINGFIELD – Continuing efforts to recruit new teachers and diversify the profession, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a series of bills into law to address the nationwide teacher shortage. The bills will simplify the licensing process for educators, lower licensing fees, and create more opportunities for prospective educators. These initiatives build on Gov. Pritzker’s record of addressing the burden of the state’s current teacher shortage, which includes raising the minimum wage for teachers to $40,000 per year, increasing funding for the Minority Teachers of Illinois scholarship program by 120%, a $200 million investment in early childhood education workforce development programs and increasing funding for teacher preparation programs. The teacher workforce has grown year-over-year since the state’s Evidence-Based Funding model was enacted in 2018. Since then, Illinois has added more than 5,000 teachers to the profession. Additionally, average teacher salaries have

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COLLINSVILLE– The Cahokia Mounds Museum Society will host its annual Indian Market Days from April 29 through May 1 at Gateway Center in Collinsville. The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site currently is closed for construction, but the Museum Society, which supports the site’s activities, is hosting the annual Indian vendor fair at Gateway Center, 1 Gateway Drive, just 10 minutes from the site. More than 30 vendors from various tribal affiliations will have items of jewelry, sculpture, paintings, pottery, and more for sale. Visitors also can purchase Cahokia Mounds' items at a Cahokia Mounds Gift Shop table. This free event supports Cahokia Mounds and complies with the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Gateway Center is easily accessible from the interstates and has ample parking.

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RIVERBEND REGION - The RiverBend Growth Association’s Young Adults Committee presents the Young Adults Committee Scholarship Raffle. With eight chances to win this is a great opportunity to help support our youth in the Riverbend area. Purchase your tickets today for your chance to win one of over $2,000 worth of prizes! The Young Adults Committee (YAC) consists of four representatives from the RiverBend Growth Association’s member schools and mentors from the RiverBend Growth Association’s membership. The high school representatives are two juniors and two seniors from Alton High School, Civic Memorial High School, East Alton – Wood River High School, Marquette Catholic High School, and Roxana High School. This year’s students are Kennedy Bickmore, Audrey Bosse, Addison Denton, Allie Lively, Kamren Mason-El, Allie Schrumpf, Thomas Strohmeier, Reaghan Williams, Isabel Baldwin, Anbrielle Blake, Joe Brangenberg, Serenity Eldridge, Olivia Goodman, Ava Meneses,

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Higher costs, plus complications from the coronavirus and severe weather, contributed to increased first-quarter losses for Peabody.

Phil Collins and his ex-wife Orianne Cevey faced off -- online, at least -- Wednesday in front of a judge, in the latest chapter of their ongoing multi-million-dollar legal battle…

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New members will be appointed to finish the terms of school board members in St. Louis and Parkway school districts.

If you love wine and walking (and stumbling drunk down sidewalks arm-in-arm with your pals), you’ll want to attend the Hill Wine Walk on Saturday, May 7. The annual event is one of the best ways to explore St. Louis’ famed Italian neighborhood. Here’s how it works: You show up to the parking lot at Rose of the Hill (2300 Edwards Street) to register.

The work could begin next month on a $17 million project that would transform a historic building into apartments in Downtown West, just blocks from the new soccer stadium.

The new laws include lowering the fee to reinstate a lapsed teaching certificate and allowing student teaching by college seniors.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.

Cydnee Calvert 13, a student at St. Ann Catholic School hanging out in a tree with professional guidance during Earth Day activities in St. Vincent Park Friday April 22, 2022.

According to the lawsuit, the teenage student identified as "Mary Doe" was raped twice during school hours since September of 2020.

There’s one dish I always look for on a restaurant menu: Eggplant Parmigiana. I’ve eaten it all over town, though I’m sure I’ve not exhausted the possibilities. (My friend, Ann, always looks for octopus on a menu, which she finds less often than I do eggplant. Cyndy invariably seeks out the salmon.)  So far, my... 

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For more than a decade, cable TV executives brushed aside the idea of cable TV “cord cutting” as either a nonexistent threat or a temporary phenomenon that wound end once Millennials started procreating. Of course, none of that wound up being true, and consumer defections from the bloated, pricey traditional cable TV bundle continue to set records during […]