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Combat pharmacist: Belleville officer uses health care to win over Afghan people

Count those pills and pass the ammunition.
Every day for six months, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Thompson, 40, wore a flak vest, Army fatigues and carried a weapon when he went to work at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. You could describe his job as combat pharmacist.
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Whatever snow the metro-east got overnight will blow around the area today because of a cold front that will bring 30 mph winds and wind chill readings near zero. List of closings
Teen gets five years for chasing down, running over man after argument

A St. Clair County teenager who witnesses said chased down a man then ran him over with his car pleaded guilty to a reckless homicide charge and received a 5-year prison sentence Monday.

Metro-East News

Sam Shelton case: Former teacher won't get additional time for attacking police, paramedics

The former Freeburg teacher and pro wrestler who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for trying to kill a teenager in 2006 won't face any additional time for assaulting police and paramedics who came to his home during a suicide attempt.

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Teen gets five years for chasing down, running over man after argument

A St. Clair County teenager who witnesses said chased down a man then ran him over with his car pleaded guilty to a reckless homicide charge and received a 5-year prison sentence Monday.

Sports

Fortune tellers: Year of Tiger isn't Tiger's year

It's the Year of the Tiger, but Chinese fortune tellers say it'll be a rough patch for the world's most famous one: disgraced golfer Tiger Woods.

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Mom charged in 8-year-old son's death at luxury hotel

A woman charged in her 8-year-old son's death in a New York City luxury hotel was once detained by police in Wyoming after claiming the boy was being molested by devil worshippers.

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Henpecked men were a fave theme of Super Bowl ads

So you're a guy? Poor you! You get slapped on your bottom at birth, then spend the rest of your life being shoved around by wives and girlfriends.

Poll: What was your favorite Super Bowl ad?

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Attorney: Fourth wife had dirt on Drew Peterson

Attorneys say more than two dozen witnesses are yet to be called in the hearing to determine what hearsay evidence will be allowed when Drew Peterson stands trial in the 2004 slaying of his third wife.

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STAR bonds don't add up

When developers unveiled plans for the 900-acre University Town Center in Glen Carbon and asked the state to create STAR bonds to finance it, they predicted the development would generate millions of dollars in state and local tax dollars.