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Belleville police nab driver after failed attempt to flee

Belleville police on Tuesday afternoon stopped a fleeing suspect after a short chase.

• Man arrested for impersonating an officer insists he is still a Brooklyn cop

• Mississippi River work resumes as the water level lowers

• State to help renovate Edwardsville senior apartments

• Beach Boys to kick off Belleville's bicentennial celebration

Metro-east News

'Act of God': No refunds on canceled Gingerbread 5K run

The race that was canceled Saturday in Belleville due to frigid temperatures, paired with snow and ice, will not be rescheduled, race organizers said Monday.

• District 189 finalist for national grant, could receive millions of dollars

• 'We will be back': New Minden on the mend after killer tornado rips through town

• State to help renovate Edwardsville senior apartments

• DCFS report tracks deaths of metro-east children

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Crime

Man arrested for impersonating an officer insists he is still a Brooklyn cop

The 56-year-old man who Caseyville police stopped early Saturday morning and later charged with a driving under the influence and impersonating a police officer says he was not drunk and he is still a Brooklyn police officer.

• Reward offered for suspect in East St. Louis shooting death

• 60 years for Belleville woman who burned great-grandmother alive for bingo winnings

• Belleville police nab driver after failed attempt to flee

• East St. Louis man sent back to prison for drug distribution

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Hot Topics

Pennsylvania investment company buying Casino Queen property

A Pennsylvania-based real estate investment trust has signed an agreement to purchase the Casino Queen's property assets in East St. Louis for $140 million.

• Off the beat: TSA agent confiscates sock monkey's pistol at Lambert Airport

• O'Fallon family gets new home for the holidays

• 'Unique' coffee shop coming to Belleville's West Main Street

• Man blinded during Illinois road rage confrontation

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Sports

Big year for metro-east with IBCA Hall of Fame inductions

Former East St. Louis Lincoln all-state players LaPhonso Ellis and Cuonzo Martin head the list of metro-east inductees for the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 2014.

• O'Fallon's Patrick Perrier takes on nation's best runners

• Central girls whip Mater Dei in Clinton County showdown

• Tuesday night high school scores in the metro-east

• Balanced attack leads Maroons over Warriors

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Features

Beach Boys to kick off Belleville's bicentennial celebration

The city of Belleville's 200th anniversary weekend celebration in September will include musicians from Belleville and afar, including the Beach Boys.

• Julie Andrews missed NBC's live 'Sound of Music' 3 hours ago

• Billy Graham weaker since 95th birthday party

• O'Fallon German teacher is just 'wunderbar'

• Answer Man: Can cleft palate and lip be prevented?

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State|Region

110-year sentence in Illinois clerk's killing

A judge has given a 110-year prison sentence to a man convicted in the 2007 killing of an Illinois woman.

• Quinn: Ill. to build, renovate affordable housing

• Judge overturns Illinois man's rape conviction

• Boeing official talks with Wash. machinists

• Illinois trying to land new Boeing facility

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Nation|World

Suit: Marine's body sent home to Pa. without heart

The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart — and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else's heart... 36 minutes ago

• 6 missing adults, children found alive in Nevada

• Brother: Bride lied repeatedly about man's death

• Banks face tougher rules on complex financial trading

• Pay gains for young women; inequality still seen 11 minutes ago

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Opinion

• Workers due a pay raise

• Profile in leadership

• Obama owns America's issues

• Christmases to remember

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