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Two former Kansas City, Missouri, police officers plead guilty to assaulting Breona Hill, a Black transgender woman, during an arrest in 2019.

This article originally ran in the Waterways Journal on November 4, 2022.  The U.S. Department of Transportation announced more than $703 million in Port Infrastructure Development Program grants to fund 41 projects in 22 states and one territory October 28. PIDP grants are designed to improve port facilities. Recipients include a $6.1 million dock expansion in Columbus, Miss., on the Tennessee-Tombigbee […]

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A once promising light in Wildwood's dining scene has gone dark. Botanica (2490 Taylor Road, Wildwood; 636-821-1233), the stylish restaurant and bar from the team behind Six Mile Bridge Beer, has closed. The restaurant served its last guests this past Sunday.

WonderLight’s Christmas at World Wide Technology Raceway features approximately 2 miles of LED Christmas lights synchronized to rocking Christmas music.   Open nightly from Nov. 11 to Jan. 1, including

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A research group says levels of the controversial and drift-prone weedkiller dicamba have more than tripled in the urine samples of people in the Midwest — even in urban areas.

It’s the latest change in World Cup planning in the majority-Muslim emirate where alcohol sales are strictly regulated.

ALTON - Al Womack Jr. of the Boys & Girls Club of Alton, announced a turkey giveaway at 10 a.m. on November 19, 2022, at 2512 Amelia Street in Alton. The giveaway is also done in conjunction with the Boy & Girls Club of Alton's 25th anniversary. There will be one turkey per vehicle, while supplies last, he said. “There is no need to exit the car, drive-thru, pop the trunk, and enjoy,” he said. “This is part of Happy Thanksgiving from the Boys & Girls Club of Alton and thanks to grant funds provided by Ameren Illinois.”

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It's official, 5 On Your Side's political editor said. Illinois voters approved changes to the state constitution and passed the Workers' Rights Amendment.

JOLIET - The owner and employees at a BP gas station in Joliet are all waiting in anticipation to find out which one of their regular customers snagged a Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth a cool million dollars. Jefferson BP, located at 1987 W. Jefferson St. in Joliet, sold the winning ticket for the Friday, November 11 evening drawing . The ticket matched all five numbers, 9-14-19-23-44, to win the $1 million jackpot. This lucky player is now the eighth Illinois Lottery player who has won a prize of a million dollars or more with Lucky Day Lotto so far this year. “My staff and I are elated that our store played a small role in making someone’s lottery dream come true,” said Khurram Ghani, Owner of Jefferson BP. “We have no clue who the winner is, but our gut feeling is that it’s a local customer from the Joliet area - or at least we hope that it is so that we can all celebrate this unbelievable moment together,” exclaimed Ghani. Retailers wh

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Spaceboy Elon Musk promised the Twitter he was pretty much sued into purchasing would bring an end to all the free speech violations he claimed were happening every day under its liberal overlords. But being an edgelord troll rarely converts into competent management. Musk is speedrunning the moderation learning curve. But he is also discovering […]

Artists like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan have sold the rights to their catalogs in recent years, and the latest catalog that's been snapped up is that of the late Harry Nilsson. The Grammy Award winner’s song…

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Ruling by the three-judge panel from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came days after a federal judge in Texas blocked the program.

EDWARSVILLE - Senior center and forward Emerson Weller, who will return to the Edwardsville team after missing the 2021-22 campaign due to a knee injury, signed a letter of intent to play college basketball at Missouri-St. Louis in a ceremony held Thursday evening in the high school's Media Center. Weller, who averaged 6.5 points and 3.9 rebounds per game as a sophomore in 2020-21, will be bringing much to the table for the Tritons, who are one of the better teams in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, considered one of the top Division-II leagues overall in the nation. Weller is also spotlighted as an iCAN Clinic Female Athlete of the Month. "I hope I can just work really hard and kind of work my way up," Weller said during a post-signing interview, "and just really be a good teammate coming into it." Weller's work ethic is very superior as well, and it's an intangible that she'll also bring to UMSL. "I just want to contribute as much as I can, wherever they need me," Weller said.

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"Beatuiful," "Sister Act," and more are on the calendar this summer at the storied outdoor theater.

Jana Elementary is on the agenda for the Hazelwood School Board meeting Tuesday and an Army Corps town hall on Thursday.

Arlo Gurthrie decided to retire in 2020, but evidently it didn't take: He's going back on the road. Speaking to Billboard, the folk music legend, who suffered a number of…

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