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The center will provide one-on-one assistance to people directly affected by the July 25—28 flooding and severe storms.

Endless box stores, dirty windshields, parking lots with zero shade, stalled elevators, eyebrow scars, sputtering fluorescent lights, security fences, empty fridges, cocaine with strangers in sweaty bathrooms. Emily the Criminal may be one of the most honest LA movies — and American movies — of our times, if only for entirely renouncing most of the lies that Hollywood and mainstream media happily feeds us.

GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago-area amusement park's entrance that sent visitors scrambling for safety and prompted the park to close early, authorities said. Officers responded about 7:50 p.m. Sunday after 911 calls reporting shots fired at Six Flags Great America, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Chicago, the Gurnee Police Department said. “The shooting ... was not a random act, and appeared to be a targeted incident that occurred outside the park,” police said in a statement posted to Facebook. According to an initial investigation, police said a white sedan entered the parking lot and drove toward the park's front entrance. People got out of the car and shot at another person in the parking lot before driving away, police said. Additional details about the suspects, including the number of people who fired shots, wasn't immediately released. Police were investigating. A 17-year-old boy from Aurora, Illinois,

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States and jurisdictions to receive twice the allocation previously anticipated under accelerated delivery schedule

All eyes on Albert! The St. Louis Cardinals legend will be chasing baseball history in the final weeks of his storied career, and he's got some work cut out for him.

The union leader who oversaw the 2021 merger of the former St. Louis carpenters union council with the union's Chicago branch has been reelected.

Nikolaos Theodorou, a public health/social justice major, and Gabriela Antova, a business major, won medals at the 44th World Chess Olympiad held last in India.

Enjoy the 5th season of this playable, artist-designed, nine-hole mini golf installation, designed to be inclusive, family friendly and accessible.

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It’s a morning and afternoon of grey skies in the St. Louis area, but we’re staying dry for the time being. We may yet see some sunshine this afternoon but temperatures should stay in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees.

PONTOON BEACH - Two Madison County Trail vandals have been apprehended thanks to a video provided by a Glen Carbon resident. Madison County Transit officials, the Edwardsville Police, and Madison County State's Attorney Thomas Haine saluted a Glen Carbon resident - Loren Strahm - this past week for the efforts to capture two who have been vandalizing the trails. In a brief presentation, Madison County Transit (MCT) Managing Director SJ Morrison presented Strahm with a reward check for $1,000 for providing information that enabled the Edwardsville Police Department to identify the two individuals. Also on hand for the presentation, which took place on the MCT Nickel Plate Trail, were Edwardsville Police Lieutenant Charlie Kohlberg and Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine. In recent months, vandalism and graffiti on the MCT Trails have increased significantly. In June, MCT issued a public reminder about its commitment to investigate incidents of vandalism along the trails.

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The survey showed the average employee in America experiences burnout 191 days in the year, a little more than halfway through the year.

Police were working to identify a man who was struck and killed by a car just before 2:30 a.m. Monday in the North Riverfront neighborhood.

Stephen Thaler is a man on a mission. It’s not a very good mission, but it’s a mission. He created something called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) and claims that it’s creating things, for which he has tried to file for patents and copyrights around the globe, with his mission being […]

The late Jack Parker loved antiques — he collected and sold mainly arts-and-craft furniture with a special interest in Navajo rugs, Stickley furniture and work from Missouri painters from the second floor of his restaurant, O’Connell’s Pub (4652 Shaw Avenue, www.oconnells-pub.com). The shop was known as Second Floor Secondhand. Fast forward some 50 years and Jack Parker’s son, John Parker, has taken over both the pub and its second floor, morphing Jack Parker’s antique shop into an art gallery and live-music venue aptly called Jack’s Joint.

Conservatives say Democrats are blatantly using federal law enforcement for partisan political reasons. Could the former president go to prison? Will this galvanize his support and get him re-elected? And why won't Democrats call this a raid?

ALTON - Below is an Illinois American Water update on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, about road closures in Alton because of sanitary sewer line work. Karen Cotton, a spokesperson for Illinois American Water, said as was expected there have been some challenges the contractor has run into once they started excavating on 3rd Street, one of the busiest areas in Alton. Work includes over six miles of sanitary sewer main is being installed in the Turner Tract, Shields Valley, and Piasa Valley areas of Alton. This project includes almost five miles of sanitary sewer main. "There are numerous old, abandoned utility lines, and even an old brick cistern was uncovered last week," Cotton said. "For the safety of our team and residents, we are working very diligently as we encounter these. To support safety, progress has been slowed some, resulting in a bit of a delay in the anticipated month time frame that was expected for the sanitary sewer installation work on 3rd Street and Belle Streets in the

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A hydropower proposal at Melvin Price Locks and Dam could destroy the only lake sturgeon spawning habitat in Missouri. It could also produce 438,000 megawatt hours of clean energy.

Benton County Sheriff's Office reported a missing woman who was last seen in Pea Ridge and is believed to be going to northeast Oklahoma. She is a possible danger to herself and has a warrant out, according to police.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to announce an investment to improve transportation across the state Friday.