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Peter & Paul Community Services took over the city-owned Biddle House shelter on 13th Street in the city's Carr Square neighborhood on Monday.

After years of working as athletic director at Ursuline Academy in St. Louis, Jen Brooks saw a lack of women in leadership positions in the sports and education world. As a result, she founded the Global Community of Women in High School Sports, which offers a space for women to grow and amplify the voices of other girls and women in sports.

ALTON - Local nonprofit, Trinity’s Way, is hosting a pet food drive on Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. to noon at Piasa Park in Alton. The drive will benefit the pet food pantry operated by Metro East Humane Society. This pantry program provides free pet food to eligible applicants who need assistance. Trinity’s Way formed in 2018 after 17-year-old Trinity Buel was killed in a car accident. The nonprofit was started by her mother, April Gray, and her godfather, Chris Unthank, to carry on Buel’s kindness and compassion for animals and the environment. The pet food drive is a fitting way to honor Buel’s memory for her birthday on Aug. 6. “When Trinity was a little girl, instead of presents for herself, she’d ask for pet food and supplies for her birthday so that she could donate those to local animal shelters,” Gray said. “She was always thinking of animals in need before herself.” Trinity’s Way hopes to collect 500 lbs. of food for

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GLEN CARBON - Brightly Senior Living in Glen Carbon recently opened back on December 15th of last year. They recently held a food drive with the donations being sent to the Glen/Ed Food Pantry. Monday, August 1st was their first big food drive and it was a great success according to Gina Ratermann, Director of Community Engagement and Events at Brightly. The St. Louis Cardinals' very own Fredbird was there to help out as well as meet the younger kids and their families. Redbird was there from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Ratermann said that residents at Brightly were strongly encouraged to invite friends and family and that there ended up being a lot of people for their first event. Brightly has another location in Mascoutah where food and school supply drives have been held in the past with Redbird, but this was their first time doing something like this at the Glen Carbon location. According to Ratterman, they will continue to hold this event annually around the first week of August.

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Several organizations in the St. Louis region are teaming up for an emergency food distribution event Thursday to give out free food to flood victims.

Newly restored versions of two official Rolling Stones promotional videos for the band's classic 1968 hit "Jumpin' Jack Flash" have debuted at the ABKCO label's YouTube channel. The videos, which…

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Kimberly Beck has had an impressive career in social services in the St. Louis area for nearly 25 years. Beck, a licensed professional counselor, is currently the executive director of The Salvation Army Midtown Service and Treatment Center, where she has helped raise $2.5 million in grants and donations.

Last night’s 4.32 inches of rain is already nearly an inch higher than St. Louis typically records for all of August (3.38).

The law is aimed at stopping shell companies from pumping dark money into campaign.

Enjoy the 5th season of this playable, artist-designed, nine-hole mini golf installation, designed to be inclusive, family friendly and accessible.

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London will host the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in a two-game matchup in June 2023.

GODFREY - Mayor Mike McCormick advises local residents and motorists to prepare and pre-plan for a temporary railroad crossing closure announced by Union Pacific Railroad. Work shall begin at 7 p.m. Monday, August 8, and will continue for about 24 hours until 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 9, the crossing shall be re-opened to full traffic. Mayor McCormick said Union Pacific Railroad will be temporarily closing the Tolle Lane railroad crossing to conduct routine maintenance and repair work next Monday night into Tuesday night. Union Pacific will be coordinating the closure and the assigned detour route shall be on Pearl Street. Godfrey Public Safety Administrator Chris Sichra said that local first responders and mutual aid agencies (Fire, Police, EMS), as well as local utility companies, have already been notified of the upcoming temporary closure so that they can adjust their response routes accordingly. Residents and motorists should also pre-plan to consider alternate

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A while back, we noted that there was something of a Rorschach test in how you viewed basically everything about Nick Sandmann, the MAGA-hat wearing high school student who became front page news after a video of him standing in front of a Native American demonstrator, Nathan Phillips, went viral. Everyone had their own interpretations. […]

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Crews are taking the first steps in a years-long project to restore and improve Forest Park's lakes and river system.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) - The state fair auction has finalized its list of lots and started letting potential bidders view their collection Tuesday. This year, the 250-lot auction consists of items from coins and jewelry, to Norman Rockwell paintings and Beatles memorabilia, all within the state’s vault of unclaimed property. “We have all kinds of [...]

A 22-year-old Castle Point man is accused of wounding his child's mother and killing her father during an argument at a home in University City.

One of the top rivalries in Major League Baseball is heading overseas. The St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs will head to London in 2023 for a two-game series.