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Mitchell will try again to get his driver's license returned; petition aims to stop it

As former Illinois State Police trooper Matt Mitchell prepares to again ask to have his driver&#...

Bob Romanik showed up in county court Tuesday in a red, white and blue Uncle Sam costume minus the top hat as a way of reminding the public, ÒIf they can do this to me, they can do this to you.Ó

Radio show host continues to fight trespassing charge

Radio show host Bob Romanik showed up in county court Tuesday in a red, white and blue Uncle Sam...

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U.S. Rep. Bill Enyart (D-Belleville) in a 2012 file photo.

Area congressmen support deal to fix VA health-care system

A compromise bill headed to the U.S. House and Senate later this week that would inject $10 billion in emergency funding into the nation's troubled Veterans Administration health-care system has the support of metro-east congressmen.

Crime

Off the beat: Police say teen left more than a nasty note on this car

A teenage girl has been charged with property damage after allegedly vandalizing a vehicle in Chesterfield -- all over the way the car was parked.

Hot Topics

Ex-judge's daughter cited after hitting local basketball star

A former St. Clair County judge's daughter will appear in court next month to answer a misdemeanor traffic charge after striking a pedestrian with her car near Belleville.

Sports

Attorney Steve Berman speaks at a news conference Tuesday, July 29, 2014, in Chicago after the NCAA agreed Tuesday to settle a class-action head-injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund to diagnose thousands of current and former college athletes to determine if they suffered brain trauma playing football, hockey, soccer and other contact sports.

NCAA settles head-injury suit, will change rules

The NCAA agreed on Tuesday to help athletes with head injuries in a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit that college sports' governing body touted as a major step forward but that critics say doesn't go nearly far enough. 15 minutes ago

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FILE - In this July 22, 2014 file photo former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, center, arrives at court with his wife, Terry, and others for his defamation lawsuit against "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle in St. Paul, Minn. Kyle wrote in his best-seller that he decked Ventura in a California bar in 2006 after Ventura allegedly said Navy SEALs "deserve to lose a few." Ventura, a former SEAL and pro wrestler, testified Kyle fabricated the story. Kyle denied that in testimony videotaped before his death last year. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jim Gehrz, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES LOCAL TELEVISION OUT

Jury awards Ventura $1.8M in defamation case

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura won $1.8 million Tuesday in his two-year fight to prove he was defamed by a military sniper and best-selling author who claimed to have punched out Ventura at a bar for bad-mouthing the Navy SEALs. 58 minutes ago

State|Region

Illinois to ask voters about taxing millionaires

Illinois voters will get a chance in November to weigh in on whether millionaires should pay an additional income tax to help fund schools after Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Tuesday adding a nonbinding resolution to the ballot.

Nation|World

In a handout photo, the crew of the Enola Gay, from left, Capt. Theodore Van Kirk, Col. Paul Tibbets and Maj. Thomas Ferebee after dropping the first atom bomb on Hiroshima, in the Mariana Islands, Aug. 6, 1945. Van Kirk, the navigator and last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the last days of World War II, died on July 28, 2014, in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93. (U.S. Air Force via The New York Times)

Last crew member of Enola Gay dies in Georgia

Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk, the navigator and last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the last days of World War II, died on Monday in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93.

Opinion

Politics tilt playing field in St. Clair County

It's typical St. Clair County.

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