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Alderman Anne Schweitzer tacked on an amendment saying the board would follow up with a resolution concerning all city employees.

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has been problematic pretty much ever since its inception. Its prior iteration — headed up by Sheriff Lee Baca — was an abhorrent mess. The LASD was (and still is!) home to gangs formed by deputies — cliques that encouraged members to violate rights and abuse those incarcerated in the […]

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Scores on the ACT college admissions tests hit their lowest point in more than 30 years, according to a public report released Wednesday.

The federal government recommended on Wednesday an updated COVID-19 booster for children between 5 and 11, expanding use of the new bivalent shots beyond people 12 and older. The U.S. …

"At Karen's, you will be greeted and waited upon by rude waiters and forced to play a variety of games."

Name: John W. Kirkman Jr. Hometown: Mt. Carmel Years of Service: 1941-1945 KIA: No Branch: Army and Airforce Rank: Sergeant Wars: World War II Message: Aircraft repair and maintenance Submitter's Name: Nancy Elson

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Name: Danielle Stacy Hometown: Bethalto Years of Service: 2006-2011 KIA: No Branch: US Marines Rank: Sergeant Wars: Afganistan Conflict Message: Thank you for your service Submitter's Name: Selena Eads

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Name: Jon Chester Hometown: Godfrey Years of Service: 2001-2006 KIA: No Branch: US Marines Rank: Staff Sergeant Wars: Iraq Conclift Message: Thank you for your service Submitter's Name: Selena Eads

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Albert Pujols recently sat down with fellow Dominican Republican native and MLB Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez to reflect on his MLB journey in a one-on-one interview for TBS. Pujols shares several stories from baseball and beyond telling Martinez, "I wouldn't change anything."

The Art of Food – a juried art exhibit. See how local artists create artwork with the theme of food as a way to talk

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While trees have long inspired artists with their wonder and natural beauty, Forest Through the Trees takes a new look at this familiar subject matter.

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Johnny Cotton sat front and center on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, as Mike McMillan, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis president and CEO, and other dignitaries celebrated the opening of a new Save Our Sons job training and skills center…

After three years of dormancy, the Loop Trolley has once again erupted onto St. Louis streets in a blaze of middling glory. One enraptured rider raved to the Post-Dispatch “It’s nice that it’s free,” while Mayor Tishuara Jones proclaimed “Nobody hates this more than I do” as she advised the East-West Gateway Council to approve a $1.26 million grant for the streetcar last month. The mayor’s reluctant advocacy stems from the reasonable fear that the federal government will demand tens of millions in recompense if the trolley ceases operation, just the latest farcical turn in the tale of this $51 million fiasco.

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STONE COUNTY, Mo. - A hiker found a massive Chicken of the Woods mushroom in Stone County, Missouri. The Missouri Department of Conservation posted a photo Friday of Jackson Sifford with the mushroom in southwest Missouri. Chicken of the Woods mushrooms are layered, fan-shaped, and fleshy. They grow in overlapping clusters on dead or dying [...]

You may recall that a year ago, pretend libertarian, John Stossel, who talks a big game about free speech and the “marketplace of ideas,” decided to sue Meta/Facebook and some of its fact checking partners for, oh right, daring to fact check him in a way he didn’t like. For this job, he hired the […]