Did Belleville officials keep their campaign promises?

Leading up to the April municipal election, Belleville City Clerk Dallas Cook said he would improve transparency at City Hall by having monthly meetings with residents and making it easier for the public to access information.

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Belleville man, 75, seriously injured in crash

A 75-year-old Belleville man was seriously injured Friday afternoon in a one-vehicle crash in Clinton...

Former Brooklyn cop charged with DUI, impersonating an officer

A former Brooklyn police officer was stopped in Caseyville at 1:25 a.m. Saturday and later charged...

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A pile of debris and bricks on the back wall of the Taxes Et Al building Wednesday in East St. Louis.

Businessman discovers someone was tearing his building down, brick by brick

It's unlikely Superman broke through, so why is there a gaping hole in a downtown building? And the owner wants to know why no one in City Hall or police knows who was tearing his building down.

Crime

Investigators search the house located at 904 Scott Troy Road in O'Fallon last April.

Lebanon teen to serve 30 months for making bombs

A Lebanon teenager was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Friday for possessing a destructive device.

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Governor French headmaster Phillip Paeltz in a 2011 file photo.

Ex-student, his mother file sexual abuse lawsuit against Governor French, headmaster

A peck on the cheek of a 16-year-old male student more than two years ago by Governor French Academy Headmaster Phil Paeltz is the basis for a sexual abuse lawsuit filed Thursday in St. Clair County Court.

Sports

Dupo football coach is Tim Nelson had to step down from his position eight games into his first season after being diagnosed with rectal and colon cancer.

Former Dupo football coach is in the fight of his life

Tim Nelson headed into his first year of coaching football at Dupo High School with tons of optimism.

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In this October 2012 photo provided by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Emily Whitehead is checked by pediatric oncologist, Dr. Stephan A. Grupp, at the hospital. In early 2012, she was the first child given gene therapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia and shows no sign of cancer today, nearly 21 months after.

Gene therapy scores big wins against blood cancers

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients' blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer. 23 minutes ago

State|Region

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin speaks during a press conference at Grant School in Fairview Heights Friday morning. Listening are Sherri Smith and her son, Izzy Parmer, 16, who suffers from peanut allergies. Izzy is now a junior at Belleville East High School, but formerly attended Grant School where his allergic reactions were first discovered. Durbin and U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk introduced the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, which was approved by the Senate and signed by President Obama.

Durbin touts new law to aid children

Sherri Smith of Belleville worries constantly about her son, Izzy Parmer, who has a life-threatening allergy to peanuts. On several occasions, administering emergency epinephrine auto-injectors, commonly known as EpiPens, while he was at school has...

Nation|World

In this Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 photo, Miranda K. Barbour is led into District Judge Ben Apfelbaum's office in Sunbury, Pa., by Sunbury policeman Travis Bremigen. Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday, Dec. 6, that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before, but their plans never worked out until last month when Troy LaFerrara responded to an online posting that promised companionship in return for money, authorities said. Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, face criminal homicide charges in LaFerrara's death. His body was found Nov. 12 in an alley in Sunbury, a small city about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/The News-Item, Mike Staugaitis) MANDATORY CREDIT

Police: Pa. newlyweds killed man from Craigslist

A couple married for just three weeks lured a man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together, police said. 16 minutes ago

Opinion

A better way to conduct government business

We often comment that government ought to operate more like private business, and wonder of wonders, even some government bureaucrats now see it that way.

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