Aggregator

ALTON - Reese Plont, a senior outside hitter for the Alton High School girls' volleyball team, has provided much leadership and encouragement to her teammates this season, in which the Redbirds are currently 11-13-1 after Alton's loss to the Tigers 25-17, 25-10 in a Southwestern Conference match played Oct. 11 at Lucco-Jackson Gym. Plont has been one of the team's statistical leaders this season, serving up 82 points and 20 aces, also having 134 kills with 19 blocks, 21 assists and 229 digs as the season goes into the final two weeks before the IHSA Class 4A playoffs start later this month. For her efforts both on and off the court, Plont has been selected as the school's Riverbender.com Auto Butler female Athlete of the Month for October, 2022. Plont, who plays for head coach Dan Carter, felt that her team did have some good moments and worked well together as a team, but were missing some key parts due to injury and with another player on a college visit. I think we worked well

Continue Reading

One of the region's largest charitable foundations found its next president at one of the St. Louis region's largest health systems.

More than 50 musicians will perform during the full-day affair along Cherokee Street.

Police discovered more than 20 stolen vehicles on Wednesday morning during a raid of a suspected "chop shop" in a Dogtown area home.

Joseph Guyre, 33, of Hazelwood, was convicted of felony child molestation and two counts of statutory sodomy.

NASA says the spacecraft will fly over St. Louis at about 3:45, and it'll splash down in the Atlantic Ocean just a few minutes later.

Walking into a construction zone that is the future Puttshack at City Foundry STL is about what you’d expect. The space is extremely raw with exposed beams, unpainted cement and a steady stream of neon-shirted workers wearing hardhats bringing a minigolf course to life. But look to the right, and you’ll find something unexpected: a woman with spray cans set against an open wall.

CrimeStoppers is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.

"It gives me hope so I can start something like this in Brazil."

You can speak directly with FEMA specialists at local home improvement stores.

Traffic is stalled on Interstate 70 in the eastbound direction as emergency crews respond to a situation on the highway.

Last week, we wrote about how publisher Wiley had removed 1,379 textbook titles from the list of books that academic libraries could lend out, thereby forcing students to have to buy the textbooks, rather than take them out of the library. As we noted, this was an example of how damaging copyright has been on […]

As Aldermen Megan Green and Jack Coatar do battle, a union representative shares his views of lower wages in construction of Lux Living developments in 7th Ward.

It appears the St. Louis Blues will have to make up some ground early on, but having made playoffs in nine of the last 10 seasons, they appear in a favorable position to overcome that.

This is Hilbert on our dining room table staring out the window. In the background, Charlie is placidly photobombing his brother, who probably doesn't even know it's happening. How would a cat know about photobombing, after all?

Today on TAP: In France, workers have shut down oil refineries, demanding wage hikes as a share of company windfall profits.

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the release of Neil Young's landmark solo album, Harvest, and to commemorate the milestone, the folk-rock legend will release an expanded edition of the…

Source

Elections co-director Rick Stream said 50-60 more Republican judges are needed to work at about 60 polling places in north St. Louis County.

EDWARDSVILLE - The famed Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will make its way back to Illinois from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 16, at the Leclaire Parkfest in Edwardsville. The Wienermobile was at the Edwardsville and Godfrey Schnucks stores this week and at each location attracted a large crowd. A fleet of motor vehicles shaped like a hot dog on a bun, called "Wienermobile," is used to promote and advertise Oscar Mayer products in the United States. The first Wienermobile was created by Oscar Mayer's nephew, Carl G. Mayer, in 1936. Donations were being accepted for the United Way however it is completely free to go and get a picture with the Wienermobile.

Continue Reading