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Reward offered for suspect in East St. Louis shooting death

Crimestoppers has increased the reward for the arrest of a teenager accused of shooting to death...

Belleville fire and police at about 10:40 a.m. Monday were handling an overturned truck at the intersection of Illinois 177 and Green Mount Road. The driver did not appear to be hurt.

Truck overturns, blocking Green Mount Road in Belleville

A tractor-trailer overturned about 10:40 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Illinois 177 and Green...

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'Unique' coffee shop coming to Belleville's West Main Street

A "unique coffeehouse atmosphere" expects to open by the new year on Belleville's West Main Street.

Crime

East St. Louis man sent back to prison for drug distribution

An East St. Louis man has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for heroin distribution.

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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. But eight weeks into the season, when Nelson was diagnosed as having rectal and colon cancer, football suddenly did not seem anywhere near as significant...

Sports

Tony La Russa in a 2011 file photo.

Torre, La Russa, Cox elected to baseball Hall

Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox spent decades trying to beat each other, no holds barred. On this day, however, they were a mutual admiration society. 9 minutes ago

Features

On Nov. 26, Riah Haswell and her sons Miles, 13, and Asher, 9, received the keys to the new home the O’Fallon Area Habitat for Humanity group built for the family on Carson Drive.

O'Fallon family gets new home for the holidays

When the O’Fallon Area Habitat for Humanity group began building its first house in July, it promised the eventual homeowner Riah Haswell she would be in her new home by Thanksgiving. And on Nov. 26, just two days before the holiday, the organization...

State|Region

FILE - IN This April 15, 1999 file photo, Rich Williamson of Kenilworth, Ill., is all smiles after being elected the new chairman of the Illinois Republican Party in Springfield, Ill. Williamson, the former Republican U.S. Senate candidate and diplomat, died Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 at age 64. The Chicago resident was a long-time leader in the Illinois GOP. He lost a nationally watched campaign against Carol Moseley Braun in 1992.

Ill. GOP leader, envoy Rich Williamson dies at 64

A former U.S. Senate candidate and diplomat described as one of the Illinois Republican Party's most influential minds has died of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. 3 hours ago

Nation|World

A man watches a TV news program showing detained U.S. citizen Merrill Newman deported from North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec 7, 2013. North Korea on Saturday deported the elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of his return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean guerrillas still loathed by Pyongyang.

US vet held in N. Korea says statement was coerced

The 85-year-old U.S. Korean War veteran who was detained for weeks by North Korea said Monday that the videotaped confession in which he apologized for killing North Koreans during the war was given involuntarily and under duress. 9 minutes ago

Opinion

Bathon's sorry he got caught

Fred Bathon, the former Madison County treasurer, said he's sorry he rigged county tax auctions. Sorry to be caught and prosecuted, more likely. Sorry to be losing his state pension and going to prison for 30 months. But sorry for the scam that enriched... 2 hours ago

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