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Another trustee appointed to replace felon in Washington Park

A village trustee who was appointed last month to replace her husband on the board after he pleaded...

A surveillance camera caught this image of one of the suspects in the theft of cigarette products at the Farm Fresh store.

Deputies: Cigarette thieves hit same store again

Investigators are asking the public for help in finding a pair of men who broke into a convenience...

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Ground breaking ceremony for the new Memorial Hospital East

Groundbreaking in Shiloh gets work going on Memorial Hospital-East

Right now, it is a field. But in about two years, a new hospital in Shiloh will be treating its first patients.

Crime

Metro-east sweep yields 10 probation revocations

Probationers beware: Compliance is the law and if you break the law, you will pay the price.

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In this May 3, 2013 photo, Minnesota Republican Rep. Pat Garofalo is shown at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Garofalo sent a tweet Sunday, March 9, 2014 that read: "Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime." Within two hours of his tweet, more than 600 people retweeted it , with many on social media calling it racist.

Minnesota GOP lawmaker apologizes for NBA tweet

A Minnesota lawmaker apologized Monday for his tweet about NBA players that some saw as racist, saying he was rightly held accountable for inaccurate stereotyping. 55 minutes ago

Sports

Cardinals' Allen Craig, Matt Holliday, Jason Motte and Adam Wainwright joke around during a photo shoot on Monday morning.

Cardinals postcard from Florida

The young man on the plane from Atlanta to West Palm Beach, Fla., had good intentions Sunday afternoon. But in the end, things are sometimes best left alone.

Features

Dairy Haven in Collinsville celebrates its 60th anniversary.

60 years of swirl: What's so good about the orange sherbet at Dairy Haven?

Susan Hill’s ice cream stand, Dairy Haven in Caseyville, is marking its 60th year in business this season. Hill has witnessed more than half of those years, first as an employee and the past 13 years as the owner. Over six decades, the Dairy ...

State|Region

'Pure cronyism': Clerk's spouse earned $146K from troubled program

Tens of thousands of dollars earmarked for an anti-violence program launched by Gov. Pat Quinn in 2010 was paid to the husband of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown, causing at least one top Republican to call it "pure cronyism." 1 hour ago

Nation|World

People prepare to release a sky lantern during a candlelight vigil for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 10, 2014. The search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which has involved 34 aircraft and 40 ships from several countries covering a 50-nautical mile radius from the point the plane vanished from radar screens between Malaysia and Vietnam continues after its disappearance since Saturday.

Stolen passports probed in Malaysian plane mystery

Authorities questioned travel agents Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports, part of a growing international investigation into what they were doing on the flight. 15 minutes ago

Opinion

It's a parent's job to care for children

In St. Clair County, a shocking 27.5 percent of children live in poverty, according to the latest Kids Count. That's seven percentage points higher than the state average.

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