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Madison County man dies after losing control of SUV

An Alton man died after the SUV he was driving went out of control and struck a traffic signal pole...

Real Estate: What's your neighbor's home selling for?

Recent real estate transaction for St. Clair, Madison and Monroe counties

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Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert.

Eckert seeks to delay demolition of Meredith Home

As the deadline for a May demolition of the Meredith Home draws near, preservationists continue to appeal to developers and hope for an extension from Belleville officials. 1 hour ago

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. 1 hour ago

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Highland investigation: Did teacher help students cheat on ISAT test?

Highland Community Unit School District 5 launched an internal investigation this week into allegations that a teacher may have helped students cheat on the Illinois Standard Achievement Test last school year.

Sports

St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter, right, shakes hands with Chairman Bill DeWitt, Jr., left, as Sr. Vice President and General Manager John Mozeliak, center, looks on at a news conference at the team's spring training baseball facility, Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Jupiter, Fla. The Cardinals announced Saturday that they have agreed to a six-year contract extension with Carpenter for $52 million.

Cardinals, 3B Carpenter agree to $52M, 6-year deal

Matt Carpenter called agreeing to a new $52 million, six-year deal with St. Louis a no-brainer. The Cardinals are hoping their third baseman sticks even longer than that. 2 hours ago

Features

Glazy Squares co-owner Kelly Sipes has some fun as she holds up two square glazed doughnuts. The one at left is plain (glazed) while the one at right has a flavored icing on it. This is how the doughnut shop got their name "Glazy Squares".

Glazy Squares Donuts does not cut corners

When Kelly and Stevie Sipes lived in Texas, there seemed to be a doughnut shop on every corner, and most had drive-up windows. 1 hour ago

State|Region

This photo provided by Papers of Abraham Lincoln project shows a note written by Abraham Lincoln. Historians believe they’ve unraveled the mystery of a cryptic note Lincoln penned that doesn’t identify the recipient by name and has a section clipped out. Researchers at the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project concluded Lincoln was writing to an ally to ask him to maintain a secret relationship with a political insider during the 1860 election campaign. Lincoln asked his cohort to "keep up a correspondence" with the person. The use of that phrase gave researchers their best clue. They ran it through a searchable database they are compiling of Lincoln’s papers and found several matches.

Historians unravel mystery of cryptic Lincoln note

The cryptic note penned by Abraham Lincoln identifies its recipient only as "my dear Sir" and has a small section carefully clipped out.

Nation|World

A woman wipes her tears after walking out of the reception center and holding area for family and friend of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Search teams across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning.

2 on missing Malaysia jet used stolen EU passports

Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirmed Saturday that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand. 3 hours ago

Opinion

Scare tactics and the jail tax

Supporters of the $37 million St. Clair County Jail expansion are using fear to try to get a sales tax increase approved.

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