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ALTON - A local neighborhood recently came together to honor their mail carrier. On Oct. 4, 2025, 15th Street in Alton hosted their annual block party. They invited mail carrier Jerri Howard to express their appreciation for her work delivering their mail for the past 18 years. “She’s seen our kids grow up,” said Ruby Blair, who helped organize the recognition. “We wanted to let her know we appreciated her. It was just that simple.” Blair pointed out that Howard has gone above and beyond to serve the community, truly honoring the United States Postal Service creed. “Ours is one of the more difficult neighborhoods to deliver because we have porches and steps. It’s work, in all kinds of weather,” Blair explained. During the block party, the community took a group photo, which Blair printed out and delivered to Howard. Blair believes that the experience was meaningful for both the neighbors and Howard. “I think it was

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COLLINSVILLE - Collinsville Community Unit School District #10 announced that the 2025 Collinsville High School Homecoming Parade will take place on Thursday, October 16, exclusively along Main Street in Collinsville. The parade is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. at the corner of Hesperia and Main streets and will proceed to the intersection of Main and North Center Street in Collinsville. Organizers emphasized that the parade route will not include West Clay Street, a change from previous years. Officials advised attendees to line up only on Main Street in preparation for the event and encouraged the public to share this updated information with others planning to attend. The Collinsville High School marching band, shown above, will once again be one of the highlights of the homecoming parade.

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"(Ali) Jones’s copyright ownership claim was groundless on its face from the time it was first asserted," the judge wrote.

St, Louis County Pet Adoption Center Issues Urgent Adoption and Foster Plea The Saint Louis County Pet Adoption Center is urgently asking the community to adopt or foster a dog as it continues to deal with overcrowding in the shelter. “Our goal is to provide compassionate and humane care for every animal in our facility,” […]

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A judge signed an arrest warrant for a University City woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise from a local Lululemon store.

ALTON - OSF St. Anthony’s Health Center will host an open house to celebrate their 100th anniversary in the community. From 2–6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, community members and previous employees are invited to stop by the hospital to learn more about their services and engage with staff members. Sister M. Beata Ziegler, F.S.G.M., Vice President of Operations and Special Projects, shared that the hospital has spent this anniversary year thinking about their past and future. “As we look over the past 100 years, we spent the first part of the year reflecting on the past, God’s providence through all these years. We also wanted to focus on moving forward,” Ziegler said. “On Thursday, Oct. 23, our open house event, we will be really looking at what services we provide at St. Anthony’s. We’ll have a lot of fun activities. It’s really highlighting what our services are and being able to thank the community.” During

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As FOX 2’s John Pertzborn prepares to sign off for the last time next week, we take a look back at one of his many memorable stories just in time for Halloween.  In October 1999, Pertzborn did a story on the St. Louis Artists Guild’s alleged haunting inside the old Charles Rice Mansion in Clayton. The story brought together local history, eyewitness accounts, and an unsolved mystery that haunted the Guild for decades.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois State Police (ISP) intensified efforts to combat vehicle theft, hijacking, and related violent crimes between July and September 2025, utilizing grant funding from the Illinois Secretary of State’s Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council. ISP received a $10 million grant for the first fiscal year, followed by additional funding of $677,000 in June 2024 and $637,500 in July 2025 to support these initiatives. During the third quarter of 2025, ISP conducted 40 missions targeting stolen and hijacked vehicles and related violent crimes. The operations resulted in the recovery of 280 stolen or hijacked vehicles, 21 arrests related to stolen vehicles, and four arrests for vehicle hijacking. Law enforcement also seized 13 firearms connected to these crimes. The agency deployed 30 K9 units and conducted 34 air operations in support of these efforts. Forensic laboratories handled 1,287 assignments

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Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adopt it: detection of “human distress” via audio. As part of their suite of technologies, Flock has been pushing Raven, […]

St. Louis police are investigating a report of possible shots fired inside a north St. Louis manufacturing plant Wednesday afternoon.

CHICAGO – Two Illinois Lottery players are now millionaires after each snagged a $1 million prize in Saturday night’s Powerball® drawing. The winning tickets were purchased at retailers in Rochelle and Colona, where excitement is running high among employees and customers alike. The first $1 million winning ticket was bought at Shell, located at 1350 Cleveland Road in Colona. The second $1 million winning Powerball ticket was purchased at Road Ranger, located at 890 East Highway 38 in Rochelle. Both tickets matched all five of the main numbers — 13, 16, 18, 20, and 27 — in Saturday’s Powerball drawing, missing only the Powerball number, 10, to win the game’s second-highest prize of $1 million. Employees at both locations were thrilled by the news. “Stop it! Are you serious?,” gasped Mellissa, manager at the Colona Shell, when she heard the news. She quickly shared it with a nearby coworker, who shouted, “We did!? No way!

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This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the thousands of layoffs it initiated after the government shutdown began Oct. 1, as well as any others that officials might want to carry out.   The hearing in the U.S. District […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) issued the following statement on today’s oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais : “All Americans should have a fair say in who represents them in Congress. Led by a President who tried stealing an election, Republicans have lost all respect for election integrity. We’re now witnessing a never-before-seen political pressure campaign to rig elections by enabling politicians to choose their voters—not the other way around. “Rather than tit-for-tat political games, the American people deserve stability at the voting booth. The Voting Rights Act has provided that consistency for decades—but faces escalating attacks from Republicans dead-set on politicizing election administration. “By ruling in favor of Black voters in Louisiana, the Supreme Court can protect fair representation

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SPRINGFIELD - Today, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) joined Innovative Rail Technologies (IRT) and Motive Power Resources, Inc. (MPR) to celebrate the commissioning of their latest zero-emission, battery electric locomotive. Bolstered by a Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois (REV Illinois) agreement , Motive Power Resources, Inc. has been expanding their facilities to increase production of IRT-designed battery electric locomotives and battery configurations to retrofit diesel locomotives for use in the United States and Canada.“I am proud to stand with Innovative Rail Technologies and Motive Power Resources as they unveil the latest in zero-emission, battery electric locomotive technology being made right here in Illinois,” said Governor JB Pritzker . “This advancement will make rail systems nationwide more reliable, more efficient, and more resilient – all while solidifying Illinois leadership

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A Venezuelan woman sentenced last month in a wrong-way crash that killed in an 11-year-old boy in St. Louis County now faces a lawsuit.

Will the Supreme Court restrain an unconstitutional power grab?

EDWARDSVILLE - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Chaya Gopalan, PhD, a professor in both SIUE’s School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB) and School of Nursing (SON), leads a partnership between STEM faculty of collaborating four-year and two-year institutions awarded $2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant, titled "Developing STEM Education Reform Leaders through a Multidisciplinary and Cross-institutional Community Transformation,” supports the development of STEM education by introducing an innovative teaching model known as “Flipped Teaching” to faculty members across Illinois. The amount of $1,228,850 goes directly to SIUE and their partnering two-year institution St. Louis Community College (STLCC). Gopalan will be the lead Principal Investigator (PI) collaborating with Co-Principal Investigator Sharon Locke, PhD, Director of SIUE’s STEM Center. “Our goal is to empower a dedicated

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SAVOY - On Tuesday, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) met with air traffic controllers at the University of Illinois Willard Airport to hear how they are being impacted by the government shutdown. While air traffic are seldom furloughed during a shutdown because of their essential role, they are not paid. “My visit with air traffic controllers at Willard Airport underscored exactly why we must work to reopen the government as quickly as possible,” said Congresswoman Budzinski . “The workers I spoke with shared deep concerns about their ability to pay their bills and the strain caused by staffing shortages resulting from this shutdown. On top of that, the public safety risks that come with an understaffed and under-supported air traffic control system demand we act quickly. For the sake of our air traffic controllers and the traveling public, I urge my Republican colleagues to come to the table and reach a deal to end this crisis.” The shutdown has

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