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GLEN CARBON — Natalie Beck has distinguished herself as a versatile athlete at Father McGivney Catholic High School, excelling in soccer, tennis, and basketball. As a junior during the 2024-2025 school year, Beck played a key role in the soccer team’s success and is set to return for the 2026 season. Beck’s impact was especially notable on the soccer field, where she played center forward and served as a primary offensive option for the Griffins. Matt McVicar, McGivney’s soccer coach, praised her work ethic and demeanor, describing her as “soft spoken” and “a good example of what it takes to be a McGivney soccer player.” He added that Beck gives “100 percent” effort in every aspect of the game. Beck is a Byron, Carlson, Petri & Kalb Female Athlete of the Month for the Griffins. In addition to soccer, Beck has achieved extraordinary success in girls' tennis, partnering with doubles player Kennedi Taylor to secure multiple

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Around 5:00 p.m. on August 12, District 5 officers were called to a shooting in the 5800 block of Cabanne Avenue. When officers arrived on scene, they found a 14-year-old girl suffering a gunshot wound to the arm. Officers applied a tourniquet to her arm. The teen was transported to the hospital and is stable. […]

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EDWARDSVILLE — Grace Brown, a recent senior graduate at Metro East Lutheran High School, recently wrapped up her athletic career as a versatile member of the girls' soccer, cheer and dance teams. Brown was a player who could play all over the soccer field for the Knights this spring. She earned recognition as the BJ’s Printables Female Athlete of the Month for the Knights for her soccer, cheer and dance efforts for MELHS. “Grace was a player who could come in and play multiple positions for us,” said Rob Stock, head girls soccer coach at Metro East Lutheran. “This was her first year playing soccer, and she did a great job learning the game and added a lot to the team.” Brown’s contributions across multiple sports highlighted her adaptability and commitment throughout her final year at MELHS.

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Today’s high will reach 85°F with a low of 66°F. Expect partly sunny skies with some humidity throughout the day. Winds will be light, coming from the north-northwest at around 6 mph. The UV index is very high at 9, so don’t forget your sunscreen if you’re spending time outdoors. Allergy indexes show low grass and mold levels, but ragweed is moderate, so allergy sufferers should take note. Tomorrow’s forecast calls for a high of 86°F and a low of 68°F with intermittent clouds. It will be humid again, with a moderate UV index of 8. Winds will shift to the northeast at about 6 mph. It’s a good idea to stay hydrated and take breaks if working or exercising outside. For more details, visit https://riverbender.com/weather.

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This week, they’re advocating for a U.N. treaty to safeguard people’s basic rights.

The U.S. Army Corps would take 6 months to cleanup wreckage from the May tornado. St. Louis officials say they would take 18 months.

The sort of executives who fail upward into positions of prominence at major media and streaming companies are all out of original ideas. So as the Wall Street pressure for impossible, perpetual quarterly growth mounts, they’ve increasingly resorted to the same tactics we’ve long seen at major shitty cable companies like Comcast. For streaming video […]

"Our jaws are dropping over this," Mayor Cara Spencer said. "That's why we're actively searching for new leadership" in the personnel department.

The Edwardsville School District is set to welcome students back on August 20th with new safety upgrades, additions to schools, and an open house to celebrate its 100-year anniversary.

Fans of popular barbecue restaurant Pappy's Smokehouse had to pivot a sister pitmaster in after a sinkhole opened up outside the Midtown restaurant.

Students are showing “positive momentum” on state standardized tests, state education officials said Tuesday, though the results remain below pre-pandemic levels.  Commissioner of Education Karla Eslinger told the State Board of Education Tuesday that she was glad to see an end to the “nosedive” that scores took between 2018 and 2023. But she knows the […]

Four members of the Missouri National Guard and twelve members of the Illinois National Guard are seeking voluntary separations from the military because they are transgender. This comes as the Trump administration set a deadline for trans military members to apply to leave on their own, or to be removed from service. One member shares her decision.

A draft agenda has not been released, but city leaders have said they intend to hold a public hearing and to vote on a proposed data center in St. Charles.

People renting vehicles through the online Turo platform will be limited three lots all west of Terminal 1.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is seeking to rescind the EPA’s longstanding finding from 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. The EPA is making a truly radical move here. The endangerment finding has been a linchpin to the agency’s regulatory actions over the years to deal with […]