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ESL High School students benefit from technical education program

This time next year, four friends from East St. Louis Senior High School will be well into their post-secondary education at Lincoln College of Technology in Indiana.

Lawsuit: Ex-inmates allege illegal strip searches at St. Clair County Jail

Two former inmates who allege they were humiliated during strip searches at the St. Clair County Jail have filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than $350,000.

Groundbreaking in Shiloh gets work going on Memorial Hospital-East

Right now, it is a field. But in about two years, a new hospital in Shiloh will be treating its first patients.

Motte takes another step in recovery; Adams sheds weight

Jason Motte's throwing program reached a new level Tuesday morning. 2 hours ago

Friend: 'Mad' Pistorius shot gun out car sunroof

Oscar Pistorius' friend testified Tuesday that the Olympian twice fired guns in public in the six months before he killed his girlfriend, once without warning through the sunroof of a moving car following an angry altercation with a policeman who ... 17 minutes ago

2 motorcyclists dead after wreck with school bus

Two motorcyclists are dead after their motorcycles were involved in an accident with a school bus in the eastern Missouri town of Wentzville. 3 hours ago

'Burger King baby' now seeks birth mom on Facebook

In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant. Nearly three decades later, the baby is all grown up and looking for her biological mother, and tens of thousands of people are trying to help. 2 hours ago

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