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Property owners say this is the second sinkhole to form in the exact same spot this year.

Dust off your flip phones and cue the dial-up tone. Hidden Gem is turning back the clock with its newest immersive pop-up experience, Y2K, Baby!, a high-gloss, low-rise, fully nostalgic […]

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The Federal Aviation Administration has implemented temporary flight restrictions for drones in St. Louis from May 29 to July 21, impacting remote pilots around sites related to upcoming FIFA World Cup events. St. Louis is one of 12 cities affected by these stricter drone rules.

After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043). Nonetheless, the current bill still jeopardizes internet users’ speech, privacy, and security. While the open source exemption, if passed, would improve the law, the remaining amendments proposed […]

EDWARDSVILLE, IL / CHICAGO, IL — May 2026 — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus Bryon Pierson Jr. recently won 1st Place in the Alumni Track at DePaul University’s 2026 Purpose Pitch Competition for EDUrain, a student housing infrastructure startup focused on improving college student retention through better housing access and support. The annual competition, hosted by DePaul University’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at TechNexus Venture Collaborative

Missouri Representative Wesley Bell traveled to the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, a facility being used as a U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) detention center, to visit Boanerges Flores-Bravo, a St. Louis resident who was detained by ICE on May 18 during a scheduled immigration meeting.

Illinois lawmakers have passed a measure allowing rideshare drivers to unionize and negotiate with companies like Uber and Lyft, creating the Transportation Network Driver Labor Relations Act and establishing collective bargaining rights for drivers.

Senate Bill 4834 would remove testosterone from the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program, a database created to track potentially addictive controlled substances, and would prohibit state officials from adding estrogen, abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol, and puberty‑blocking or hormone‑suppressing drugs to the system.

House Bill 4758 would prohibit employers and employment agencies from listing a driver’s license as a requirement in job postings unless driving is an essential function of the position and meets a legitimate business necessity.

The Who has shared another performance from their recently released album, Live at Eden Project. The latest is a video of the band performing their iconic track "Won’t Get Fooled Again" from…

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The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners says $1.7 million has been secured for a new sound-muffling wall to address noise complaints at a south St. Louis police shooting range.

VENICE - Jason McCallum was charged Monday in Madison County with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Travion Sherrodd, who was found May 26 in a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head at the intersection of Market Street and Selb Street in Venice. Venice police responded to a reported shooting at the intersection on May 26, 2026. According to the charging document, officers found Sherrodd unresponsive in a vehicle with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Sherrodd

Illinois lawmakers have approved a measure to temporarily suspend the state's scheduled motor fuel tax increase for six months, providing short-term relief to drivers facing higher fuel prices.