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Metro-east lawmakers vote against pension reform plan

All eight of the metro-east lawmakers who were in Springfield on Tuesday voted against adopting a pension reform bill. 17 minutes ago

Crime

Police search for armed robber in Cahokia area

Cahokia -- Police were looking for an armed gunman late Tuesday who robbed the clerk at gunpoint at the Titlemax store on Camp Jackson Road. 3 hours ago

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Dashon P. Hinkle 36, of Belleville, was charged by St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly with first-degree murder. Hinkle is accused of shooting John D. Fath Sr., 53, at Fath's home at 416 N. 40th Street.

Charges filed in Belleville murder case

A 36-year-old man was charged Monday with first-degree murder in connection with the weekend shooting death of a Belleville man, who police said was not the intended target.

Sports

Tuesday's high school scores

Following is a list of games played in the metro east on Tuesday. 3 hours ago

Features

O'Fallon Township High School Marching Panther Megan Krneta plays the flute while performing intricate marching movements during preliminary competition at the Bands of America Grand National Championships at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.

Belleville East marching band wins first place at St. Louis parade

For the second year in a row, Belleville East High School's marching band placed first at the St. Louis Thanksgiving Day parade band competition with a score of 93. 36 minutes ago

State|Region

Kansas City, Mo. police work a crime scene in parking lot A outside Arrowhead Stadium, in Kansas City, Mo., after a person was killed Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. Police Chief Darryl Forte said the death is being investigated as a homicide and that two suspects are in custody.

New details in Arrowhead Stadium death

A Missouri man who died Sunday after a struggle in the parking lot of Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium had gone to the game between the Chiefs and Broncos in a similar vehicle parked nearby, police said Tuesday.

Nation|World

A train passes by the scene of repair efforts at the site of a train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board says right now, it doesn't know whether faulty brakes or human error caused Sunday's derailment of a New York City train that killed four people and injured more than 60. But NTSB member Earl Weener says information from the train's two data recorders shows the train was going 82 mph on a turn when it should have been going no more than 30 mph.

Lawyer: Engineer in 'daze' before NYC train crash

An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnotic-like "daze" and nodded at the controls before he suddenly realized something was wrong and hit the brakes, a lawyer said. 12 minutes ago

Opinion

Relieved to get pension reform in Illinois

At last, pension reform. After years of foot-dragging and false starts, Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday put the worst-funded public pension systems in the nation on a path to fiscal solvency. If all goes as planned, the pension funds' $100 billion shortfall... 3 hours ago

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