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ISP Releases Preliminary Traffic Report For Crash In Perry County

3 years ago
PERRY COUNTY - The Illinois State Police released the following preliminary traffic crash report for a two-vehicle accident in Perry County. WHAT: Two Vehicle Personal Injury Traffic Crash WHERE: Illinois Route 154 at Burning Star 2 Road, Perry County WHEN: August 27, 2022 at approximately 8:09 p.m. VEHICLES: Unit 1 – Blue 2001 Pontiac Sunfire Unit 2 – Red 2018 Subaru Impreza DRIVERS : Unit 1 – Braden D Stroud, 22-year-old male from Mount Vernon, IL – Transported to an area hospital with injuries. Unit 2 – Joseph G. Brake, 24-year-old male from DuQuoin, IL – Uninjured PASSENGER: Unit 2 – Wyatt C. Melton, 26-year-old male from DuQuoin, IL – Uninjured Unit 2 – Christopher T. Porter, 27-year-old male from DuQuoin, IL – Uninjured Unit 2 – Chance D. Murray, 26-year-old male from DuQuoin, IL – Uninjured PRELIMINARY: Preliminar

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St. Louis City Threatens To Sue Kia and Hyundai After Wave of Car Thefts

3 years ago
St. Louis City officials are threatening to sue two car manufacturers alleging their shoddily assembled vehicles led to an "epidemic of car thefts." In a letter to Hyundai and Kia, City Counselor Sheena Hamilton chastized the car manufacturers for failing to install engine immobilizers in many of their vehicles, making the vehicles a popular target for thieves. Hamilton threatened to seek "all legal remedies available to the city" if Kia and Hyundai didn't mitigate their vehicles' "defective conditions."
Monica Obradovic

How a hydroponic farming company is improving access to fresh produce in St. Louis

3 years ago
The gold standard of farm-to-table is fresh produce that’s available 365 days a year, not dependent on weather and grown in a sustainable way. It would be even better if farm-to-table produce could fill the voids called food deserts and make a meaningful difference to people and their diets. This future isn’t a pipedream. It’s actually coming. And as this new standard for delivering produce and vegetables expands, we’re all going to benefit from it. Today, lots of buzz words surround food…
Larry Chapman

St. Louis is #1 among best U.S. cities for new grads to start a career

3 years ago

This article originally ran in USA Today on August 27, 2022.  For new college graduates, the best cities in the U.S. to begin a career aren’t coastal — they’re in the Midwest, according to a recent ranking that has St. Louis at the top of the list. Since college grads tend to earn less earlier in their careers, an analysis by […]

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Matt Fernandes

Asylum-seekers allowed to enter U.S. after ‘Remain in Mexico’ ends

3 years ago

This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune.  EL PASO, Texas — Willian woke up before dawn on a recent Tuesday, packed his legal documents into a blue folder and got in a van with other migrants to one of the international bridges that connect El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. At the port of […]

The post Asylum-seekers allowed to enter U.S. after ‘Remain in Mexico’ ends appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Uriel J. Garcia

Illinois EPA Director Kim Announces Second Electric Vehicle Rebate Program Funding

3 years ago
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) Director John J. Kim today announced the next funding round for Illinois’ Electric Vehicle (EV) Rebate Program will be open Tuesday, November 1, 2022 – Tuesday, January 31, 2023. The current EV Rebate funding cycle, which opened on July 1, 2022, will close Friday, September 30, 2022. Individuals that have purchased an all-electric vehicle since July 1, 2022, can still access and complete an application for a rebate under Illinois’ EV Rebate Program at: https://www2.illinois.gov/epa/ topics/ceja/Pages/Electric- Vehicle-Rebates.aspx . Applications for the first funding round must be postmarked on or before September 30, 2022. EV purchasers must apply for a rebate within 90 days of the vehicle purchase date. “Here in Illinois, we are leading the electric vehicle revolution,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “And thanks to our EV Rebate Program, we are making electric vehicle adoption

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Texas Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal Of Voice Actor’s Bogus Defamation Lawsuit

3 years ago
Vic Mignogna is an American voice actor specializing in English dubs of Japanese anime. His career dates back to the early 2000s. Unfortunately for Mignogna, he’s now mostly known as a serial sexual harasser. Those accusations began surfacing in 2019, with some accusations dating back nearly a decade before he became a successful voice actor. […]
Tim Cushing

Givin' It All For Guts Tries To Help Serious Blood Shortage With Drive At St. Ambrose Catholic School

3 years ago
GODFREY - Givin’ It All For Guts, a local nonprofit organization that helps fund Crohn's Disease, Colitis, and IBD illness research at Washington University in St. Louis, is hosting a Blood Drive from 2 to 6 p.m. this Wednesday, August 31, in the gym of St. Ambrose Catholic Church & School, located at 820 W. Homer M. Adams Parkway in Godfrey. Masks and appointments are required - to schedule an appointment, call Ashleigh Schroeder at (618) 531-1812 or go online to bloodcenter.org/group and enter the Sponsor Code: 10154. Angela Richards, president of Givin' It All For Guts, said the region has been dealing with a blood shortage for almost two years now. She said this blood drive is a way to help both the patients their organization focuses on and the surrounding community. “During the pandemic, we saw a need for blood and thought that is one way we can help the community,” Richards said. “Believe it or not, a lot of Crohn’s and Colitis patients,

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion a Pillar of Neuroscience Research Building

3 years ago
From Washington University School of Medicine:  Woven into the design of the Neuroscience Research Building under construction on the Washington University Medical Campus is an intangible yet still very real pillar deemed as important as the 6,500 truckloads of concrete used to reinforce the high-rise. The pillar is a holistic philosophy of diversity, equity and […]
Shruthi Beedu