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Daniel Stout was one of five men who died at the county jail in 2019, prompting outrage over medical treatment.

It's still early in October, but temperatures are starting to change, with our first frost in the forecast for Saturday morning.

Postseason baseball is back, and Cardinal Nation is ready for its close-up. When the calendar turns to October, St. Louis turns red.

President Joe Biden has announced executive actions that would pardon thousands of people with prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. Biden then called on governors to follow suit with state offenses …

Most, but not all of the bi-state will dip below the frost threshold overnight.

Michael Brown said he told a doctor he uses marijuana to cope with the pain. MODOT fired him.

After several weeks of ongoing renovations, the remodel of the Aurora Walmart Supercenter is complete.

The St. Louis Cardinals are conducting tests on one of Ryan Helsley's fingers on his throwing hand after a mid-inning departure in the ninth inning of a Game 1 Wild Card loss.

"Carolina Shag," a previously unreleased John Mellencamp song from the sessions for his classic 1985 album Scarecrow, has just been made available as an advance track from the upcoming deluxe…

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This is the first year of the expanded playoffs. Major League Baseball (MLB) allowed 12 teams, six from each league, to make the postseason.

Every unhappy populace is unhappy in its own way, but every autocratic regime is the same. Vietnam may have embraced a form of capitalism that made it inviting to foreigners, but the government’s embrace has always been a bit on the strangulation side. Sure, Vietnam citizens may have more opportunities for earning money than running […]

ALTON – The Alton Chili Cook-Off which has been a community tradition for 35 years will not happen on October 15, 2022, as planned, and the event’s fate in future years is uncertain. “Earlier this week we were informed by the Madison County Health Department that the way the Alton Chili Cook-Off is conducted is not allowed,” explained Sara McGibany, Executive Director of Alton Main Street who coordinates the event, adding, “I’m not sure when these particular rules were put into place, but we were asked to assume responsibility of planning the event and given the how-to guide in 2013. There was a foodborne illness outbreak at the Belleville Chili Cook-Off in 2016 which apparently caused area Health Department regulations to become stricter.” The three options for a cook-off to adhere to the Health Department’s guidelines include: only having restaurants or teams who cook in certified kitchens involved, having teams cook everything on-site,

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"As the director of the entire state, it's been one of my goals to visit as many public health departments as possible."

GRANITE CITY - Granite City's Month Of Magic & Mayhem gets underway with an excellent kickoff - a Creepy Crawl Halloween Parade ending with The Monster Mash Dance Party in the Streets, Saturday, October 8, 2022. The parade begins at 4 p.m. at 27th Street in Granite City and crawls down Madison Avenue, ending at Civic Park. The Monster Mash Dance Party starts at 5 p.m. Granite City Downtown Arts and Entertainment Director Brenda Whitaker said the costume theme for parade participants will be their favorite Halloween movie or television show. "I think this is a great way to introduce the Month of Magic & Mayhem," Whitaker said. "We will have something for everybody on the Saturdays in the month. Hopefully, our activities will appeal to a lot of different people." Granite City Mayor Mike Parkinson is excited about the Creepy Crawl Halloween Parade and the other events in Magic & Mahem Month in his city. “We are to do things that work for kids,” Mayor Parkinson said. “The

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