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$10 Million scratch-off ticket sold in Illinois
A lottery ticket purchased in Alton, Illinois, has won $10 million from a scratch-off game called "$10 Million." This is the first winner of the Illinois Lottery’s first-ever $50 scratch-off ticket, $10 Million, which launched in December 2023.
Actress Jennifer Coolidge spends week in St. Louis, shops and dines at local businesses
Award-winning actress Jennifer Coolidge shopped and dined her way through St. Louis this week after receiving an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at Washington University on Monday.
Beloved Saint Louis Zoo vulture with 'larger-than-life' personality dies at 36
ST. LOUIS — Boris, one of the oldest cinereous vultures in human captivity, has died at the age of 36, the Saint Louis Zoo announced Wednesday. The zoo said Boris' care team had been treating him after he developed an ongoing and painful eye disease. Eventually, his condition progressed to the point that additional treatments could no longer keep him comfortable, so the decision was made to humanely euthanize him.
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