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What started as a bipartisan effort to improve Missouri’s literacy rates through a children’s book has evolved into legislation that lawmakers hope will boost students’ reading success. A bill heard Tuesday in the House Education Committee would require schools to start assessing students on their reading levels in kindergarten and ensure students who are behind […]

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Beginning Monday, April 25, people in and around Maryland Heights can order takeout from Gioia's Deli in their neck of the woods

The shopping center opened as Crestwood Plaza in 1957 before becoming an enclosed mall in 1984. The mall closed in 2013 and was demolished in 2017.

EAST ALTON – Research from RiverWatch Director and Stream Ecologist Danelle Haake illustrates how community members can be a part of the scientific field and provides new insight on how road salt application affects our local streams. Haake, who holds a doctorate in biology from Saint Louis University, is a senior scientist and RiverWatch Director at Lewis and Clark Community College’s National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC sm ) and has over 10 years of experience in stream ecology research. Her recent paper, “Impacts of Urbanization of Chloride and Stream Invertebrates,” was published in the journal “Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.” The article was co-authored by three citizen scientists who also participated in the study. “The goal of this research is two-fold,” Haake said. “It will hopefully lead to greater knowledge about what is happening locally and show how chloride levels from

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While hemp is not the cash crop that some imagined, it is adding more ecodiversity to farms around the state.

Get ready to do a little dance and drink a little water while watching the Billboard Music Awards. Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to perform at the 2022 edition…

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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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Steven Roberts releases terms of agreement with Cora Faith Walker over rape claim.

At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and elderly patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as standard …

A few weeks ago, Rene Ebersole drew the curtain back on law enforcement forensic training, showing the public that their tax dollars were being blown on forensic education handed out by Dr. Arpad Vass — someone who in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-two is teaching cops how to utilize witching to locate […]

Here in Los Angeles¹ we have a mayoral election coming up. The two main candidates are Karen Bass, a local member of Congress, and Rick Caruso, a billionaire real estate developer. Caruso is running mainly on a platform of getting tough on crime² and fixing the homeless mess. He's gonna build build build homeless shelters; ...continue reading "As usual, California’s latest homeless initiative is widely hated"

Toyota is spending $383 million on plants in Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky as the company gears up for hybrid electric production.

GREENFIELD - Pink lights were displayed everywhere on the evening of Saturday, April 16, in Greenfield and throughout Greene County in memory of 1-year-old Danika, who died tragically in a fire on March 31, 2022. Danika is the daughter of Nate Alderfer, a Greenfield City Police Officer, and his wife, Kari, a Greenfield City Alderwoman. The pink light display was on the evening before Easter Sunday morning. Danika was 11 months old when she died in the fire on March 31, 2022, where she also lost a grandparent. Morgan Coffey and Morgan Vinyard have led an effort to show community support to the family by selling pink lights. The two had this statement about the program: “Starting on what would have been Danika’s first birthday on April 16, 2022, we are asking you to turn on your pink porch light. We want the Alderfer family to know our thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time. A total of 100 percent of the proceeds will be going toward starting the

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Caryn Dugan, also known as "St. Louis Veg Girl," has been heartened by the number of plant-based living festivals that have sprung up around the country over the past few years. She thought it was high time for a restaurant week dedicated to that same lifestyle. And so, she's launching St. Louis' first-ever Plant-Based Restaurant Week, which runs May 1-7.

He's the first monkey born since the 35,000-square-foot outdoor expansion Primate Canopy Trails opened last summer.

A few days ago, former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted revealed in an interview with The Palm Beach Post that six months ago he'd jammed with drummer Alex Van Halen and…

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Calhoun County resident Kermit Bell is a West Point graduate and a retired Lt. Col from the US Army. Bell was drafted for WWII in 1946 as he attended Calhoun High School. However, he was granted the ability to finish school before he began his service. Bell went on to serve through Korea and Vietnam and settled into his optometry practice after earning his degree in Tennessee. Kermit Bell has played an orchestral role in efforts to build up the county’s infrastructure, including helipads, the county pool, Bell’s gym, the medical center, among other projects. “Serendipity governs what you do.” Bell’s close relationship with this concept has brought him across the country multiple times, often in ways he did not expect. “I was an enlisted man, not very experienced in anything. I had a high school education, but the Calhoon High School wouldn’t have gotten me too far.” Early on in Bell’s military career, he recognized his drive to becom

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ALTON – Alton School District 11 Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner announced today that National Education Association President Becky Pringle will be making a stop on her "Justice, Joy, and Excellence Tour" this Friday, April 22, 2022. President Pringle and Illinois Education Association President Kathi Griffin will be visiting two Alton Schools on Friday. The two will be attending a ribbon-cutting for Earth Day at East Elementary and watching a performance by the Alton High School choir and orchestra. Pringle and Griffin are scheduled to arrive at East Elementary at 1 p.m. on Friday. Over the past year, Becky has been visiting schools across the country meeting with members, and visiting schools. Becky is a middle school science teacher with 31 years of classroom experience and has distinguished herself as a fierce social justice warrior and defender of educator rights. The National Education Association represents over 3 million members across the country and is the larges

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