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LITCHFIELD - The Sunday, Aug. 14 Pickers Market in Litchfield has been canceled, city officials have announced. A building collapse in the area of the market has prompted the cancellation. City officials cite an abundance of caution for the safety of vendors and attendees as the primary concern. Please see the attached press release for additional information. Due to the incident that occurred over the weekend in downtown Litchfield with a building collapsing in the 300 block of North State Street, the Pickers Market scheduled for August 14th has been canceled. As of Monday, August 8, 2022, at 11:30 am, the structural engineer(s) have not been on site to assess the building(s). The City wanted to provide as much notice as possible to the vendors of market cancellation, so the difficult decision has been made to cancel the market for Sunday. Please understand that much has been considered when making such a decision as no one wants to cancel. Public safety is our utmost concern and keepin

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A week after the two were charged in early June in connection with burying the dead body, the detective served a search warrant on Facebook, to get access to their accounts.

Police say they don't know the name of the man who was killed.

Last week River City Drones captured views of tilt up erection at the Chesterfield  sports complex. Chesterfield Sports Association is building the project on a 10.87 plot of land at 150 N. Eatherton Road in Chesterfield Valley for the future home of an indoor volleyball and basketball tournament complex. The multi-court, 97,000-square-foot fieldhouse will attract […]

Eating disorders are mental illnesses with emotional, psychological, physical, and relational challenges.

On the heels of a $21 million expansion, the museum will serve as a powerful resource for teaching visitors how to reject hatred, promote understanding, and inspire change.

Investigators suspect two fires Monday at Bridgeton community parks were intentionally set.

St. Louisans affected by the recent severe storms and flooding can now get help from the federal government through FEMA’s Individual Assistance program, after President Joe Biden granted Gov. Mike …

Federal officials last month approved a plan to help Missouri deal with “ongoing and persistent” delays in processing Medicaid applications that have left the state out of compliance with federal standards for nearly a year. Longtime observers of the state’s Medicaid program say the decision by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to intervene is […]

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Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi staged a mini Black Sabbath reunion Monday at the closing ceremony for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, a sporting event held in the metal legends' hometown…

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Anthrax canceled the band's show Monday in Dallas as a result of a "medical concern." The thrash metallers have been touring in celebration of their 40th anniversary alongside Black Label…

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ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Public Schools superintendent plans to retire at the end of 2022. The announcement was made Tuesday ahead of the start of the 2022-23 school year. Dr. Kelvin Adams' retirement officially starts on December 31. He has been with the district for 14 years. “Over the years, we have marked [...]

ALTON - The memoir of life-long Alton resident, Henry Eugene “Gene” Maul, has been released by LuLu Press, Inc. The memoir, Diary of Henry Eugene Maul, Prisoner of War , is a compilation by his eldest daughter, Diana Maul Halstead, a 1970 graduate of Alton High School. The Maul family was a fixture of Alton going back to the late 1830’s. Gene Maul was influenced and angered by the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Shortly after graduating Marquette High School, Gene enlisted in the United States Army Air Force, training to take on one of the most dangerous positions in the Air Force as a waist gunner. As a member of the 96 th Bomb Group and the 338 th Bomb Squadron he completed 8 missions before his plane was downed by enemy fire, May 8, 1944, causing him and his crew to be captured by German scouts. This diary is not a story told in the typical day-to-day accounting of time, but a visual drawing-by-drawing, poem-by-poem, note-by-note diary. Gene

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The Noir Bookshop, located at 2317 Cherokee, sells both new and used books by Black and brown authors.