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The Special Olympics state basketball games took place across the St. Louis area over the weekend; but there was another group participating from the sidelines.

Temperatures have soared wildly over Antarctica during the past week, with the eastern part of the continent experiencing temps about 70 degrees above normal (i.e., about 10°F instead of -60°F). That sounds pretty spectacular, but the technical description is even more spectacular: The warm conditions over Antarctica were spurred by an extreme atmospheric river [that] ...continue reading "Thanks to climate change, we now live in a five sigma world"

Wait. Is it now conventional wisdom on the Fox News right that masks just flat-out don't work? I know they've always hated masks and mask mandates—and think liberals are weenies for constantly wearing masks just to show off—but when did they decide masks had literally no value at all? What did I miss?

ALTON – Alton High School 2022 boys tennis season is here and one player who is especially ready for the upcoming season is sophomore Parker Mayhew. Mayhew played number two for the Redbirds last year and when he is not playing tennis, he runs cross country in the fall, which he says “helps give me a lot of endurance which you need for tennis.” Parker Mayhew is an Auto Butler Male Athlete of the Month for AHS. High school sports provide young athletes a place to compete in sports they enjoy and a fun way to spend time with friends. “The whole team is good friends," Mayhew said. “Going into the season, I think us all being close will make for a competitive environment. We enjoy doing stuff outside of tennis, we are all close, and I think we will keep helping each other get better.” Mayhew credits his dad and also his assistant coach, Phil Trapani, for getting him into tennis. According to the strong sophomore player, “I started playing tennis

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EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville senior baseball pitcher/infielder Spencer Stearns enjoyed a successful 2021 season, although abbreviated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, hitting .384 with a team-leading five home runs and 43 RBIs in helping the Tigers to a 34-4 record last year. As the season unfolds for the 2022 campaign, Stearns feels confident that the Tigers will have another successful season. Spencer is an iCAN Clinic Male Athlete of the Month for EHS. "I'm feeling good," Stearns said during an interview conducted recently during a scrimmage on the Tigers' junior varsity field. "It's like the team's coming together well. I wasn't sure how everyone, because we've got a lot of kids from a lot of different classes, so I wasn't sure how they were going to work together, but we've come together and we're looking better each day." Stearns is hoping to take a similar role this season as he had during 2021. "I'm hoping to be a similar role as last year," Stearns said, "core infielder

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EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville softball senior player Emily Wolff had a great varsity debut game for the Tigers, going two-for-four with an RBI single in the Tigers 10-6 opening day game against Freeburg this past Tuesday afternoon at the Edwardsville Sports Complex. Wolff had missed the last two seasons because of a shoulder injury and surgery, and although the outcome wasn't what she hoped for, she felt great in making her varsity debut. "Being out there in general for the first time in my whole high school career was really exciting," she said. "Having the girls back me up and cheering me on, like in warmups, they were like 'Hey, it's Emily's first game,'" she said with a smile and laugh, "and they were all so excited for me. So all those feeling and emotions made me so happy to be out here finally." Wolff agreed that it was great to be out on the field after her shoulder injuries, and had a very special motivation factor that kept her going while she was on the injured list. "From

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The family of 30-year-old Richie Terell Aaron Jr., of Independence, alleges in the lawsuit that Amtrak should have stopped the train after the shooting and that the company has lax security.

Three major labor organizations representing nearly 400,000 workers passed the resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The federal lawsuit says the train continued on to the Independence stop, despite pleas from passengers to wait and get help for the victim.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side, our first place winner is MathFox with a response to Minnesota’s anti-algorithm social media bill: No algorithm means: no filtering against harassment, no filtering against violent content, no filtering of pornographic content and no filter to keep child predators out Are those Minnesota “representatives” so […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government has approved $1.7 million for the restoration of one of the oldest Black churches in the U.S. that served as a northern sanctuary …

Canadian Pacific covers much of the U.S. Midwest and is a large shipper of potash and fertilizer for agriculture.

Messenger: In three years, Missouri attorney general has issued only one formal legal opinion.

They are treating questions from her judge's life over the years as statements of opinion to portray her as an outlier not deserving of a seat on the high court.

It’s once again time for our monthly Tweetup! This month we are happy to announce that Tweetup will occur on … MoreTweetup At Ari’s – In-Person