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A resident was attacked near the Wesford Drive access point in Maryland Heights on Saturday.

ALTON – A resolution to allocate nearly $184,000 to design “streetscape and transportation improvements” on East Broadway is on its way to the Alton City Council. Committee of the Whole members on Monday approved a resolution appropriating $183,914 in Riverfront Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District Funds, or as much is needed to complete the design portion of the project. According to the resolution, the project requires additional funding through the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), resulting in a Joint Funding Agreement between the city and IDOT. The full scope of the project consists of “professional design services including civil engineering, land surveying, and landscape architecture for the design of streetscape and transportation improvements,” according to the Joint Funding Agreement. The designed improvements are set to span 0.59 miles of East Broadway from Market Street to Ridge Street. Also passed on Monday was an Engineering

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Four families in Washington Park are displaced after strong weekend weather left their apartment building condemned.

Governor Mike Kehoe has called a special session of the Missouri legislature to approve a controversial new congressional map that divides Kansas City's 5th District.

An infant was dropped off earlier this month at a Safe Haven Baby Box at the O'Fallon Fire Station No. 3 in St. Charles County.

A proclamation signed by President Donald Trump last week seeking to restrict entry of non-immigrant workers to the U.S. and apply a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications created confusion and concern within the tech industry over the weekend.  Immediately after Friday’s announcement, companies of all sizes, including tech giants Microsoft and Amazon and smaller startups, […]

ATLANTA —  A key vaccine advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has indefinitely postponed a controversial change to guidelines on administering hepatitis B vaccines to newborn babies, and altered long-standing recommendations around COVID-19 vaccine access for children and adults, though a proposal to require prescriptions for all individuals seeking the shot […]

California-based technology contractor HotChalk sued Concordia and its parent, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, for $302 million, claiming it was defrauded.

Four families in Washington Park, Illinois, have been displaced after strong weekend weather left their apartment building condemned.

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville High School has announced that seven of its students have been recognized as National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Students for their exceptional academic performance. The following students received this honor: Kaan Demirer Maya Hatch Ian McGinness Josie Proctor Myurie Suthan Logan Szymanski Andrew Wang The National Merit Scholarship Program recognizes students based on their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Each of these students posted scores among the top 50,000 in the nation out of roughly 1.5 million juniors who take the PSAT each year, placing them in the top 2–3 percent nationally and reflecting exceptional academic ability and potential for future success.

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Last week, a federal judge ruled it was unconstitutional to ban the group.

On Monday, the Army identified the four who were killed when the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were aboard went down.

Updating the updating: I started writing this post last Tuesday, but put it on hold when everything happened last Wednesday, and rewrote it this weekend to post today, only now as I was getting ready to post it, seeing that Disney has reinstated Jimmy Kimmel, so… yeah. I’m only making a minor update to deal […]