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Roadwork to close lanes on Illinois 15 beginning Monday

Roadwork will reduce Illinois 15 to one lane in both directions from Interstate 255 to east of Illinois...

Collinsville's Tremain Streater gets out of the blocks at the start of the 400 meter dash. Streater finished 1st in the race.

Friday high school scores in the metro-east

Scores from high school games involving metro-east teams on Friday:

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Dress codes: Should schools ban girls' leggings?

They're called leggings -- popular fashion items that are tight-fitting pants to some, and glorified tights to others.

Crime

Police arrest man after reported abduction in Columbia

A 27-year-old man has been taken into custody after a reported abduction Thursday afternoon in Columbia.

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After pleading guilty Thursday afternoon to involuntary manslaughter of his 23-month-old son, Nathan, who died June 20, 2013, Wayne M. Hubert, left, talks with relatives in the lobby of the St. Clair County Building in Belleville. Hubert faces a sentence of four years.

Passed out drunk: O'Fallon dad pleads guilty in dead toddler case

A former O'Fallon man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his 23-month-old son.

Sports

Cahokia senior Gary Hickman takes 1st place in the 110 meter hurdles. Edwardsville's Craig James takes 2nd and Cahokia's Korrion Session takes 3rd.

Comanches are champs again, this time at Granite City Invite

Cahokia senior Gary Hickman will be the first to admit that after missing the first two weeks of the outdoor track and field season that he isn't quite at midseason form.

Features

Justin Bieber appeared briefly in front of Judge Joseph Farina, via video, clad in red jail-issued scrubs at Miami-Dade Circuit Court in Florida, Jan. 23, 2014.

White House on deport Bieber petition: No comment

The White House has two words for those who want President Barack Obama to deport Justin Bieber: No comment.

State|Region

Teen dies after rescue from pond following party

Authorities say a teenager has died after he was pulled from a McHenry County pond after a party nearby

Nation|World

Massachusetts State Police stand along Interstate 190 where police said a child's body was found Friday, April 18, 2014, near Sterling, Mass. Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr., said the body has not been positively identified as Jeremiah Oliver, of Fitchburg, but that the height and weight of the body was consistent with Oliver's size. Jeremiah Oliver was last seen by relatives in September 2013 but wasn't reported missing until December. His mother Elsa Oliver and her boyfriend Alberto Sierra are both charged in the case.

Autopsy to ID dead boy; body cast off side of road

All Massachusetts authorities could say for sure is that they found the lifeless body of a small boy, apparently cast off the side of a highway. 1 hour ago

Opinion

Will Illinois school aid formula get a makeover?

People in Illinois hear a lot about schools not getting enough funding from the state, but not much about an effort afoot in Springfield to develop a fairer way to distribute the money.

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