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A 15-year-old girl had to be taken to the hospital after cutting her leg while trying to break a window to the CityView Apartments.

COLLINSVILLE, IL – The City of Collinsville is looking for your feedback about your neighborhood and what can be done to improve it. The Neighborhood Planning and Improvement Initiative’s goal is to solicit feedback on several criteria like where you live and satisfaction with living in the city, level of satisfaction with city services, and gauging interest in establishing neighborhood associations to name a few. “What we’re looking to do is really empower people to take initiative, identify the problem, communicate that to the appropriate staff so that we can be more proactive in our service efforts, code enforcement and our other outreach efforts,” Yancey said. The goal of the project is to have departments work more closely together, increase the ability to identify and respond to neighborhood issues and capital improvement needs, improve customer service, responsiveness, community outreach, and education efforts and encourage neighborhood-based,

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Take a load off and take in the views on a relaxing daytime cruise that shows St. Louis from the river that built it. Narrated

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The Calhoun County, Illinois Board of Commissioners passed a new Bicycle Ordinance in April 2022. Trailnet has been mapping beautiful bike routes through Calhoun County for 16 years. Calhoun is …

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While the Missouri Belle Riverboat from "Ozark" is indeed a real boat, it might not be where - or what - you expect it to be.

Missouri corrections officers would receive a back pay settlement and future payments worth more than $100 million under an agreement to end a long-running claim the Department of Corrections was underpaying officers.  Under the proposed settlement, the corrections department does not admit any wrongdoing but accepts that the payments are reasonable considering the likely result […]

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Ameren Illinois said you'll pay more because natural gas prices have skyrocketed in part due to the war in Ukraine and restrictions on Russian fuel.

After photos showing Elton John in a wheelchair surfaced Wednesday, the legendary singer addressed them head-on in a lengthy Instagram post to assure fans he is in-tip top shape. "I want to thank all my…

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Wolfgang Van Halen is speaking out against Reelz cable network and Autopsy: The Last Hours of... for the show's upcoming episode about Wolf's father, the late Van Halen icon Eddie Van Halen.…

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Green Door Art Gallery proudly presents Botanicals & Blooms II, A celebration of all things floral and botanical. The exhibit features sculptural gourd vessels by

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Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis celebrates the best chess, art and culture from all 50 exhibitions held at

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Impressionism and Beyond traces the complex and generative encounters of artists with modern life, highlighting the diverse conversations between tradition and innovation, representation and abstraction, and

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and

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Admission to the Missouri History Museum and this special exhibit is free.   Women, often portrayed as secondary characters in the city’s formation, were actually

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Though hospitalizations are increasing, they are still well below last summer’s peak. And both case and hospital metrics show the area is still faring far better than during winter surge.

I managed to make it two weeks in good health, but today my lucky streak ended. I woke up with a cold and a terrible sore throat and stayed in most of the day. In other news, my cell phone got pickpocketed on the metro. I'm mad about this less because the phone itself was ...continue reading "So how’s the vacation going?"

The fastest game on Earth.   HOCKEY: Faster Than Ever explores the science behind ice hockey. Technology, physics and other topics highlight the advances of

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Jones is fully vaccinated and received a booster. She doesn't have any symptoms, her office said.