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WATCH: 2024 DCLI Public Safety Camp
July 27, 2024 – The Jerry J Dawson Civic Leadership Institute hosted 14 local students for the 2nd year of the DCLI Public Safety Camp. The 4 week program exposed students to various areas of public safety, from police and fire, to forensics and corrections. Watch the video now!
2024 NV5 Invitational purse, winner’s share, Korn Ferry Tour prize money payout
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS - JUNE 30: Max McGreevy poses with the Memorial Health Championship trophy after winning the Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS at Panther Creek Country Club on June 30, 2024 in Springfield, Illinois. (Photo by Jeff Curry/Getty Images) The 2024 NV5 Invitational purse is set for $1,000,000, with...
130th annual Payson Old Settlers picnic kicks off Friday, continues through Sunday
PAYSON, Ill. — The 130th annual Payson Old Settlers Picnic will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-4 in Payson South Park. Bob and Rose Bunte and Jerry and Audrie Bunte, this year’s parade marshals, are members of the Bunte Trucking family. The event kicks off on...
Edwardsville Boasts Lowest Unemployment in Metro East at 4.6 Percent, Rates Rise Over Metro East
SPRINGFIELD – Unemployment stats were mixed throughout the region in the latest June 2024 survey. Edwardsville had the lowest stat of Metro East communities with a 4.6 percent mark compared to 3.7 percent a year ago. East St. Louis recorded a 9.0 percent rate compared to 7.7 percent a...
Goins hopeful park can reopen safely
Alton’s Gordon Moore Park would typically be busy during the weekend with baseball, softball, soccer and golf, but it’s quiet today thanks to a sinkhole that formed a month ago. The hole formed under the turf fields near the park entrance, forcing the city to close the entire park to the public for a full safety inspection underground.
The Adams Street fire public forum
The Citizens Club of Springfield held a public forum this morning downtown at the Hoogland Center for the Arts to discuss the Adams Street Fire. The four guest speakers were owner of The Wakery Elizabeth Wake, President of Moving Pillsbury Forward Chris Richmond, owner of two the buildings affected by the fire Chris Nickell, and owner of The Cats’ Pyjamas Cat Café Tom Raymond.
Metro Transit bolsters security with overtime pay for St. Clair Co. police departments
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (First Alert 4) - Metro Transit announced a new partnership with four police departments in St. Clair County to increase security. During a press conference Friday, Metro Transit announced police departments from Belleville, Swansea, Fairview Heights and Shiloh will help patrol Metro platforms and sites in St. Clair County.
2,000 left without power in Springfield Friday morning
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Power has been restored for over 2,000 people in Springfield after City Water, Light and Power had to briefly shut down their service Friday morning. CWLP officials said tree damage to power lines in the area of Oak Lane was to blame. Two poles were damaged and live wires were created […]
Madison County Fair wraps up this weekend
The Madison County Fair is winding down with demo derbies this weekend at the Madison County Fairgrounds in Highland. The derbies will be the center of attention tonight (Friday) and tomorrow, and family day wraps up the fair on Sunday. Fair Board member Chelsey Amman tells The Big Z the...
Local Man Gets Permit, With Conditions
MADISON COUNTY — Nathan Miller got what he was seeking from the Madison County Board at its most recent meeting, approval of a special use permit for him to operate a landscaping services business at 8140 Lebanon Road south of Troy, but with the requirement that he add bathroom facilities for his nine employees at the site.
Earthquake scares on Social Media
Jonesboro, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – July 27, 2024 – Several social media users recently have been highlighting recent National Guard earthquake drills in downtown St. Louis. Many of these social media users have begun to raise alarm for a potential major earthquake along the New Madrid Fault line. Videos seen by millions claim seismologists are predicting a catastrophic, about a 7.5 magnitude, earthquake to happen in the next fifty years, one that could split the country in half, cause damage to nearly half of the country, and put large parts of the country underwater. Though the question remains: Is a country splitting earthquake expected to hit the New Madrid fault line in the next fifty years?
Local activists had major impact before, during, and after ‘The Ferguson Uprising’
The St. Louis American Comcast-NBC Universal Fellow Devored A. Horton was a high school senior when high school graduate, college bound 18-year-old African American, Mike Brown was shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in his neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014. Horton reflects on Ferguson and the St. Louis region ten years later in this special St. Louis American series “Ferguson 10 years after.”
Woman injured in shooting at gas station on Tucker Boulevard
ST. LOUIS — A woman was injured after a shooting in St. Louis early Saturday morning. District 4 officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrived at the scene of the Shell gas station at Tucker Boulevard and Convention Plaza. Police said they found a 25-year-old woman who...
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