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If a recession does come, the economist expects the nation’s unemployment rate to jump from the current 3.5% to 5% to 5.5% by early 2024.

With her new documentary, “Education, Interrupted,” Aisha Sultan encourages audiences to reflect on the ways the coronavirus pandemic radically disrupted learning and children’s development. The film is featured in this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival.

ILLINOIS — Check your tickets! Though no one won the $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, 12 lucky Illinoisans can claim a nice chunk of change. To have claimed the massive jackpot, players needed to have matched all five regular numbers plus the Powerball: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the red Powerball 23. The [...]

Affinia Healthcare will hold an Anti-Violence Block Party from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday Nov. 12, 2022, at its 4414 N. Florissant Ave. location in St. Louis.

City accuses union of “meritless challenges.” Union says city should have responded earlier to its request for information.

Big businesses really should know better as to how trademark law works. Or, failing that, their corporate counsels should. And yet we see far too often that big businesses take an aggressive approach to anything remotely resembling trademark infringement that they do not like. Take The Store is Closed, an as yet unreleased video game […]

When you hear the words "chicken-crust pizza," what comes to mind? Is it a comparison with the much maligned but probably delicious KFC Double Down, which featured toppings between two "slices" of fried chicken ? Is it Taco Bell's Naked Chicken Chalupa, starring a poultry shell?  Or is your noggin completely blank because the idea of a pizza where the crust is made of chicken is too downright wild to picture? But what if that chicken-crust pizza wasn't strange at all?

In its first season with an NCAA Division I football team, Lindenwood University has experienced a surge in attendance at home games played at Harlen C. Hunter Stadium in St. Charles. It’s now making moves to draw even more fans – including increased food and drink offerings.

Another day, another 'will-they-or-won't they?' story about a Van Halen tribute concert to Eddie Van Halen featuring past and present members. The answer remains no, with the latest update coming…

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JERSEYVILLE - Jersey Community High School government students have been discussing the November 8 midterm elections in class this week. Ben T. Gracey, the social studies department head/government teacher, said the lesson begins with an examination of what the constitution says about elections and voting. It then goes into further detail about various offices at the national, state, and local levels. "These midterm elections have been getting a lot of attention, and we pride ourselves in inculcating a real civic awareness in our student body about such things," Gracey said. Gracey also explained that the JCHS senior government course provides an in-depth examination of the formulation/meaning of the U.S. Constitution. "In addition, students examine how the principles of that constitution relate to our modern political system and civic engagement," Gracey said. "We don’t just memorize amendments at JCHS. Our graduating seniors leave here with a better understanding of how we

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CHICAGO - The Powerball jackpot has ballooned to a staggering $1.5 billion for Saturday night’s drawing, and quickly approaching the world record $1.586 billion jackpot. If a player wins Saturday night’s massive grand prize, it would be the second largest Powerball jackpot and the third largest lottery jackpot won in U.S. history. No winner matched all six numbers to win the jackpot last night. The winning numbers were: 2-11-22-35-60 and the Powerball is 23. However, several Illinois Lottery players woke up this morning a whole lot richer after last night’s drawing! Three players matched four numbers and the Powerball with Powerplay to win $100,000 each, and nine local players matched four numbers and the Powerball to win $50,000 each. The majority of the winning tickets were purchased at retailers across the greater Chicagoland area.

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Founder, Construction Forum  One of my favorite parts of the career path I have chosen is that I have had the blessing to meet scary bright people. “Scary bright” — by my personal definition — relates to people who are not just smart, but also have humility, the wisdom to seek […]

Remember that patch of Dame's Rocket blowing in the wind that I showed you a couple of months ago? Here it is again, but in a normal photograph that shows what it actually looks like. It's a pretty little flower when you get close up.

A couple of days ago I posted this chart showing that corporations were paying their workers less but marking up their products far, far beyond the rate of inflation: But Matt Yglesias says there's nothing either wrong or unusual about this: Excess demand and profit-seeking by greedy corporations are not competing explanations for inflation — ...continue reading "Corporate markups, take 2"

by Steven Hibbard, Burns & McDonnell The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will deliver a much-needed boost to developers of solar, wind, energy storage and other clean energy technologies over the next 10 years as existing tax credits are expanded and new credits are added. Though the clean energy industry will be directly in line for […]

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A man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her family days after Christmas in 2018 will suffer the death penalty in state prison, a St. Charles judge ruled Thursday.

Authorities have issued an Endangered Person Advisory after Tatiyana Walls, a 12-year-old girl from North St. Louis County, went missing.