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Jerry Costello II, a former Metro East state lawmaker, says the $12 billion in aid from the Trump administration won’t come close to covering the losses farmers have suffered in the form of lost markets, lower commodity prices and higher input costs.

Democrat Michael Madigan was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and reported to a minimum-security federal prison camp in West Virginia earlier this fall. An appeals court denied his request to be released while an appeal is pending.

The Trump administration’s cuts to biomedical funding could have big repercussions for people focused on a cure.

The Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in National Science Foundation grants, but the campus in Rolla is still winning awards — for now.

Refugees and asylees are among those who can no longer qualify for federal nutrition support until five years after obtaining green cards.

“We're watching what Indiana does,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said at an unrelated event in Alton on Wednesday. “We may have to react to that.”

Some Midwestern soybean farmers are selling their beans to be crushed and turned into soybean meal and oil. But economists say domestic processing won’t be enough to offset the drop in Chinese demand.

Operation Food Search is partnering with the City Foundry to collect food for the thousands of St. Louisans who will lose SNAP benefits during the federal government shutdown.

Nearly 2M Illinoisans could lose benefits as federal shutdown continues.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Marty Baron will speak in St. Louis about “The Case for Worry ... and for Optimism.”