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After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players are lining up for a shot at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. (Oct. 11) (AP video by Ty O'Neil and Rodrique Ngowi)

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$1.765 billion Powerball jackpot goes to lucky lottery player in California
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Tue,10/10/23-11:15PM , 86 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A player in California won a $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, ending a long stretch without a winner of the top prize.
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Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up on Sept. 7, 2023. The Army sprayed a potential carcinogen from the tops of buildings and from station wagons in the area around Pruitt-Igoe in the 1950s and 1960s as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Deanes and Phillips are leading an effort to get government compensation. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

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Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold War-era testing, St. Louis victims say
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sun,09/24/23-7:04AM , 218 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Phillips’ childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing complex. He also remembers watching men in hazmat suits scurry on the roofs of high-rise buildings as a dense material poured into the air.
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Kimberly Thompson, center, listens as Francis Howell School Board members talk in favor of rescinding all previously passed resolutions, including an anti-racism resolution, during a meeting on Thursday, July 20, 2023 in O'Fallon, Mo. In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly-white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a resolution promising to do better. Now, led by new conservative board members elected since last year, that resolution has been revoked.(David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

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School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sat,07/22/23-11:44PM , 368 Reads
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination.
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Dominique Tafoya arranges some of the new fireworks stock at a local fireworks concession stand, July 1, 2011, in Phoenix. Extremely hot, dry conditions forecast through the Fourth of July across much of the West are heightening concerns about wildfires and the dangers of fireworks. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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What to know about Fourth of July holiday origins and traditions
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sun,07/02/23-12:32AM , 1,463 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks.
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