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Medical examiner: Cora Faith Walker died from heart disease

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A former Missouri state representative from the St. Louis area was found unconscious on the morning of Friday, March 11, in a hallway at the Loews Hotel in Downtown St. Louis. Cora Faith Walker was just 37-years-old when she died. There is no active local or federal investigation into Walker’s death. [...]
Joe Millitzer

Work closes multiple EB lanes on Poplar Street Bridge

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - There could be traffic trouble Wednesday heading into Illinois on the Poplar Street Bridge due to the scheduled closure of multiple eastbound lanes going into East St. Louis. IDOT is in charge of this project and their officials said the lane closures will likely happen around the area where the split happens [...]
Chris Regnier

Mostly sunny skies Wednesday, highs in 70s

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Wednesday morning is clear and cool with some frost away from St. Louis. Expect a milder day with highs in the 70s and mostly sunny skies. Thursday starts out dry. Then rain moves in by the late afternoon. Showers and storms will continue through the weekend but there will be dry time as [...]
Linh Truong

Amazon won't be fined over warehouse tornado deaths

3 years 2 months ago
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is calling on Amazon to improve its severe weather emergency procedures following a tornado struck its warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, and killed six people.
Kevin S. Held

The state took his kids three times. And three times it gave them back.

3 years 2 months ago
On a September afternoon last year, a state child welfare investigator drove into Alto Pass, a village in the rolling hills of Southern Illinois, to the home Alan Schott shared with his then-girlfriend and his two daughters. Someone had called the state’s child abuse hotline, claiming that Schott was neglecting the girls.
by Molly Parker for The Southern Illinoisan and Vernal Coleman and Haru Coryne, ProPublica