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Updates from the girls state track and field meet

Updates from the IHSA girls state track and field meet being held Saturday in Charleston

The official poster for the 2013 Art on the Square festival in downtown Belleville.

Art on the Square schedule

The 12th annual Art on the Square features 105 artists from all over the world, who will display...

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Saturday's high school sports scores

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Children paint a mural set up by the Tourism Bureau of Southwestern Illinois in the Children's Entertainment area at Art on the Square. The annual art event draws thousands of visitors to the city each year, and is regularly ranked among the top art shows in the country. This year, 105 artists have their work on display and for sale. Art on the Square continues Saturday until 8 p.m., and on Sunday the art festival will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Check out these scenes from Art on the Square

See what our photographer saw at Art on the Square. 3 hours ago

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8 Illinois Lottery payout checks bounce

Some lucky winners of the Illinois Lottery weren't so lucky when they went to cash their checks.

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This undated image provided by Capt. Bobby Rice shows Ron Poirier fishing for tuna. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, Poirier figured he’d dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in the country's history - and, perhaps, to his own premature death. "It's just a terrible thing," the 58-year-old veteran said shortly before succumbing to esophageal cancer at a Cape Cod nursing facility on May 3, 2013.

Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.

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Find a less political city attorney

Before the Belleville city election, Mayor Mark Eckert met with our editorial board and insisted that his Good Government Party was separate from the St. Clair County Democratic Party.

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