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A local sorority put on a community service event Saturday in East St. Louis.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis will offer thousands of free Thanksgiving meals to families in need ahead of the holiday.

Sharonica Hardin-Bartley, Ph.D., superintendent of University City School District has been selected to serve on the national American Heart Association [AHA] Superintendent Council.

Well-known actor and former NFL player Terry Crews surprised dozens of elementary school students Friday in the Ritenour School District.

Several retailers have announced that their doors will be closed on Thanksgiving this year.

Santa needs a vacation after all his hard work at the North Pole, so he’s trading pine trees for palm trees. Escape the cold and join him at this festive

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Emergency crews raced to the crash scene at the Dallas Executive Airport.

Less than a week after Missouri voters approved Amendment 3 to legalize recreational marijuana, state regulators have drafted rules as to what that might look like in the near future.

He returned to his home and is safe, according to police Saturday afternoon.

Five Years Ago This week in 2017, Comcast joined the chorus of ISPs trying to stop states from protecting privacy and net neutrality, and also targeted Colorado’s thoughts of building its own broadband network, though it was failing to overpower the voters there. Meanwhile, the SESTA fight was heating up: we talked more about how […]

Colonoscopies have been considered the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening and prevention for decades. Now, however, a new study seems to call that belief into question, but health professionals argue the research can be easily misinterpreted. The study , published in the New England Journal of Medicine, followed 85,000 participants over a ten-year period. Trial participants were either invited to undergo a single colonoscopy screening or to receive their usual physician care with no colonoscopy. Of those who were invited to have colonoscopies – whether they got one or not – there was an 18% reduction in developing the disease, and no significant reduction in the likelihood of colon cancer death. Dr. Omar Khokhar is an OSF HealthCare gastroenterologist in Bloomington, Illinois. He says there is a sticking point in this study, which can be easily overlooked: Less than half (42%) of the group invited to get a colonoscopy actually went through with the screening

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The Owensville Police Department has issued an Endangered SILVER Advisory for an elderly man who went missing Friday.

University City High School honored a student Friday after he rescued a child during the historic flooding in July.

The first snow of the season has arrived to the surprise of many after temperatures peaked up to 80 degrees just a few days ago.