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A plan to raise teacher pay was approved by the Missouri Senate on Tuesday, but faces headwinds in the House.

URBANA - Pop star Britney Spears told the world this month that she’s expecting her third child at age 40. While society may view it as less common than getting pregnant in your late teens, 20s, or early 30s, experts say later-in-life pregnancies can be successful if you plan for the complications that come with age. “I would not want anyone to let their age to be a factor in deciding whether or not to have a child,” says Kelli Daugherty , certified nurse-midwife at OSF HealthCare in Urbana, Illinois . “You absolutely can have a healthy, safe, and successful pregnancy and birth over the age of 40 just as you can at the age of 20. It just may be a little more difficult to get there.” Daugherty says women are most fertile in their late teens to mid-30s. Then, fertility begins to decline until menopause , when they can no longer get pregnant. “By age 45, fertility has declined so much that conceiving naturally for most women is not possible anymore,”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Mike Bost (IL-12) today announced the winner of the 2022 Congressional Art Competition, “Captivating Cardinals” by Kassidee Gabby of Marion High School. Kassidee’s artwork will hang in the Cannon Tunnel in the U.S. Capitol for the next year. “Congratulations to Kassidee for winning our 2022 competition,” said Bost. “I especially like that she incorporated not only Illinois’ state bird, the cardinal, into her artwork, but also our state flower, the violet. I’m looking forward to seeing it hang in the Capitol later this year. Thank you to the Mt. Vernon Visitors Center for hosting this year’s gallery as well as our judges, teachers, and students who participated this year. Job well done!”

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EDWARDSVILLE/EAST ST. LOUIS - First came the lesson, then the application and the result was freshly brushed and polished teeth. Bright Smiles Mobile Dental, of Swansea, concluded its services to more than 60 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) students on Friday, April 22. “We have to report to the state regarding students’ physical, vision and dental exams,” said CHS nurse Marquita Holton, LPN, who contacted and coordinated the dental visits. “We had numerous students who needed their teeth cleaned, due in large part to COVID-related challenges. When some students were entering the ninth grade, many dentist offices weren’t seeing patients.” “I was more than happy to come,” said Dr. Rosalyn Smith, who started her mobile dental business in 1996. “I wanted to assist students in underserved areas. Currently, I service students in East St. Louis and the Cahokia area.” Before student

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CHICAGO – In Illinois last year, approximately 103 people were killed or injured in grade crossing and trespassing incidents. Illinois Operation Lifesaver works to prevent these needless incidents from happening through public awareness campaigns, education programs and free rail safety presentations. Operation Lifesaver , the non-profit rail safety education and awareness organization dedicated to reducing collisions, fatalities and injuries at highway-rail crossings and preventing trespassing on or near railroad tracks, is observing its 50th anniversary in 2022. Over the past five decades, Operation Lifesaver and its safety partners have helped reduce railroad crossing incidents by 84 percent across the nation. But there is more work to do – every three hours a person or vehicle is hit by a train in the United States. “The Illinois Commerce Commission has overseen Illinois’ rail safety efforts for more than 150 years. Keeping pedestrians, motorists, and

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The St. Louis medical examiner has determined former St. Louis Rep. Cora Faith Walker died from a heart condition at the age of 37. Faith was a high-level administrator for St. Louis County Executive Sam Page. She died after collapsing in a hallway at a downtown hotel on March 11, hours after attending a birthday party for St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones. The two vacationed in Jamaica during the week before her death. Speculation that Walker’s death was drug-related swirled after DEA agents…

ST. LOUIS - Great news Bublé fans! The Grammy-winning, multi-platinum superstar entertainer Michael Bublé will be back on the road with his brand-new Higher tour and is coming to ENTERPRISE CENTER on Friday, September 9. Tickets will go on sale Friday, May 6 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster and make a great Mother’s Day gift. The 27-city U.S. tour, announced by national tour promoter Beaver Productions, includes stops at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on August l8 and LA’s Crypto.com Arena on September 23. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 6 at 10 a.m. local time. Bublé’s previous global tour, which ended in 2021, spanned across 25 countries worldwide and included 61 sold-out U.S. shows alone and a collective audience of well over 800,000 fans. His just-released new studio album, Higher, is his 9th Top 10 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart. With unstoppable talent, energy, and a voice that is equally at home singing standards, pop tunes, swing,

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Craft Alliance is pleased to present Other Ways of Knowing, a solo exhibition with Kansas City-based ceramic artist Casey Whittier.   Like so many of

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Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis celebrates the best chess, art and culture from all 50 exhibitions held at

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Impressionism and Beyond traces the complex and generative encounters of artists with modern life, highlighting the diverse conversations between tradition and innovation, representation and abstraction, and

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Green Door Art Gallery proudly presents The Nature of Things, art inspired by the natural world, featuring laser cut wood mandalas by Karen DeGuire, charcoal

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and

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Admission to the Missouri History Museum and this special exhibit is free.   Women, often portrayed as secondary characters in the city’s formation, were actually

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Lindsay Alsop, LPNA Board member for over 30 years, retired from the board in April.  We will miss Lindsay, who … MoreLong-Time Board Member Retires

App users can open a FDIC-insured savings account to save for a down payment, complete home buying education courses and participate in a rewards program.

The St. Louis County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to set aside $6 million to demolish the vacant and blighted Jamestown Mall.

Warmer temperatures cause heavier rainfall across the U.S. — even in the driest cities.

Join the National Park Service in celebrating Grant’s Bicentennial with a jam-packed day of free events and activities for all ages on the president’s birthday,

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Tony Nguyen could have opened his debut restaurant anywhere. In fact, he had a couple of attractive offers to do so in Los Angeles where he'd made a name for himself as one of the city's most talented chefs. One prospective investor owned the L.A. Weekly newspaper and offered to finance his dream endeavor; the other wanted to give him space in a soon-to-open hotel.

Schools in Missouri would be required to test drinking water for lead, and install filters if it’s above safe levels, under a bill that won near-unanimous approval Monday in the state Senate. …