November 2024

Illinois DCFS honors adoptive parents during Adoption Awareness Month 

Ill State News, News /

CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker has proclaimed November Adoption Awareness Month, and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is celebrating the lifelong commitment thousands of families across the state have made by opening their hearts and homes to 19,347 children who have needed a loving family in the past decade. “We have all […]

Illinois DCFS honors adoptive parents during Adoption Awareness Month  Read More »

Illinois Lottery reports record results for third consecutive year 

Ill State News, News /

CHICAGO – As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Illinois Lottery is also celebrating another record-breaking year of sales and returns to the State of Illinois. The Illinois Lottery is reporting sales of $3.86 billion and lottery proceeds of $883.6 million, which are both higher than the previous year. Fiscal year 2024 was notable for having

Illinois Lottery reports record results for third consecutive year  Read More »

Illinoisans among the least tolerant of neighbors’ political yard signs, finds survey

Ill State News, News /

CHICAGO – As election season approaches, neighborhoods across America are transforming in more ways than just the changing colors of fall. Yards are blossoming with red, blue, and everything in between, as homeowners proudly display campaign signs, turning their lawns into political statements. This colorful display, however, isn’t just a form of expression – it’s

Illinoisans among the least tolerant of neighbors’ political yard signs, finds survey Read More »

Lucy Sears wins Voice of Democracy oral essay contest

Featured News, News, Ste. Genevieve News /

STE. GENEVIEVE – A senior at Ste. Genevieve High School has won first place in the VFW Post 2210 and its Auxiliary Voice of Democracy Oral Essay contest. Lucy Sears with Lois Flieg, VFW Auxiliary Youth Activities and Scholarship Chairperson. Lucy Sears essay responded to the contest theme: “Is America Today Our Forefathers’ Vision?” Sears

Lucy Sears wins Voice of Democracy oral essay contest Read More »

MSHP report

News, Ste. Genevieve News /

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest report of arrests. Arrested was: 52-year-old Thomas E. Shearin of Ste. Genevieve at 8:35 a.m. Thursday in Ste. Genevieve County on a warrant out of Richmond Heights for improper lane use. He was being held in the Jefferson County pending the post of

MSHP report Read More »

Recovery plan available for four imperiled freshwater mussels

National News, News /

BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota  – They have quirky names and are often mistaken for stones, but freshwater mussels are very much alive and perform critical ecological functions in rivers and streams. We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have published a recovery plan to save four imperiled mussels protected under the Endangered Species Act: the rayed

Recovery plan available for four imperiled freshwater mussels Read More »

SIU farms coral to help imperiled ecosystems survive, explore aquaculture

Featured News, News, Randolph County News /

by Tim Crosby CARBONDALE, Ill. – Much of the Earth’s freshwater eventually joins with massive, salty oceans where it can deeply impact life in those marine systems. Amid farm fields hundreds of miles away, researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are growing coral, a beautiful and sensitive lifeform sitting in the nexus of these systems

SIU farms coral to help imperiled ecosystems survive, explore aquaculture Read More »