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Lawmaker says he initiated a meeting with marijuana lobby in effort to stop them from trying to kill his legalization bill.

EDWARDSVILLE - Woodland Elementary School special education teacher Kelly Baird was in grade school when they used to let the sixth, seventh and eighth graders help with kindergartners and first graders during recess. “I really enjoyed that and decided I wanted to be a teacher.” At the same time, PL94-142 had passed and special education was coming into being. “I thought that sounded even better. The more I learned, the more I thought special education was for me.” When Baird began at District #7 30 years ago, her mentor teacher was a communications disorder teacher. “She was amazing! I learned so much about how language affects everything we do. Then I got to work with two girls who were on the Autism spectrum (although not yet diagnosed), and I was fascinated by how their minds work.” Baird had opportunities to attend workshops and learn even more about Autism. “I knew these were my people! I’ve been in love with that population

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ST. LOUIS--Days after a local school board meeting in Okawville, Illinois brought out pleas from community members who thought the high school girls basketball coach's job was on the line, that coach has announced she plans to step down. "Let's please just move past this and heal our hurts. Our town has been known as [...]

The attorneys want to know if negligence about Tyre Sampson's size, or other factors, played a role in his death while riding the 430-foot-tall Orlando FreeFall.

Kansas City area radio station is one of two in the United States that offer Russian government-funded programming to listeners.

MODESTO, Calif. — One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill a bottle with sludge. Green is a utilities plant operator …

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo--Police in Ladue have been able to piece together more information about a Friday evening shooting on Interstate 170 that shut down traffic for several hours. Authorities say a rolling gun battle on northbound lanes between Ladue Road and Delmar Boulevard took place between 3:15 and 3:45pm Friday between a black Nissan [...]

ST. LOUIS---Police have identified the children found dead early Friday morning in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. Police responded to the 1000 block of Spruce Friday and found a boy and a girl with puncture wounds who were pronounced dead at the scene. Saturday morning, police identified 12-year-old Paris Harvey of St. Louis as [...]

Lashaun Foster lived in north St. Louis County and had suffered from an apparent gunshot wound.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A rising middle school football player in Missouri, only 14 but already 6 feet, 5 inches tall and well over 300 pounds, Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a towering Florida amusement ride. Lawyers for his family want to know if negligence about his size, or other factors, played [...]

The music world is reacting to the shocking and unexpected death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who passed away Friday at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, where his band…

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The $30,000 GoFundMe goal set by a tornado survivor's school nurse has been surpassed by more than $9,000 as of Saturday afternoon.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader after his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

The music world is reacting to the shocking and unexpected death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who passed away Friday at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, where his band…

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