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Driver strikes, kills pedestrian near Collinsville, police say

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Aldi extends hours. And how does a pumpkin spice pedicure sound?

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Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert cuts the ribbon during the rededication ceremony and open house Saturday for the newly renovated City Hall.

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Belleville officially unveils $5 million City Hall renovations

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4 Wheaton College players to be arraigned in battery case

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St. Louis' health department uses barber shops to fight STDs

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New testing benchmarks to rely only on SAT exam in Illinois

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The Latest: Trump promises 401Ks won't change

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Illinois governor's race could be costliest in US history

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$10 for $20 Worth of Food and Drinks at Diamond Mineral Springs

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Metro-East News

Driver strikes, kills pedestrian near Collinsville, police say

10:20 PM

Metro-East News

Aldi extends hours. And how does a pumpkin spice pedicure sound?

4:51 PM

Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert cuts the ribbon during the rededication ceremony and open house Saturday for the newly renovated City Hall.

Metro-East News

Belleville officially unveils $5 million City Hall renovations

5:27 PM

Metro-East News

The Nashville superintendent got a retirement bonus. That’s rare in the metro-east.

Nashville High School’s former superintendent isn’t the only administrator to leave his district with a retirement bonus in recent years.

Metro-East News

New Gateway Arch visitor center and museum will open in July

Sparta man killed when combine and car collide

Highland drivers plow through competition at snow plow ‘Roadeo’

Sports

Schedules set for metro-east football playoffs

Fourteen teams from the metro-east will represent the region in the Illinois High School Association football playoffs.

Maroons drop Lancers to clinch Class 7A playoff berth

Fourteen area teams qualify for football playoffs

Tigers score early, add insurance to defeat West for regional soccer title

Metro-East Living

There are a bunch of restaurants coming to the area. Here’s when they’ll open.

Looking for a new way to satisfy your sweet tooth? Nothing Bundt Cakes, a national franchise, will open a new location in Fairview Heights this fall.

Apparently the Olympic torch did come through the metro-east

What happened to Patricia Kara from ‘Deal or No Deal’?

This is why they don’t put carbon monoxide detectors in cars

Opinion

Yadira Sortre and William Fontan Quintero with what is left of their belongings, destroyed by Hurricane Maria. Their children build a room to protect themselves from the elements in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico.

Making sure your hurricane relief donation gets to victims, not fundraisers

Recently there was a pancake breakfast at the Turkey Hill Grange in Belleville, with the $1,370 raised going to the United Methodist Committee on Relief to help recent hurricane victims.

Too few cops here, not enough there, so regionalize police

BND readers sound off on too few cops, MidAmerica tax, Illinois debt

City hall cost doubled to $5 million, but they still need $500,000 to finish

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Take a look inside Belleville’s newly renovated City Hall

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Take a look inside Belleville’s newly renovated City Hall

A few million ways Illinois neglects kids, cops, health care

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A few million ways Illinois neglects kids, cops, health care

Community has questions as superintendent retires in September

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Community has questions as superintendent retires in September

Here's what you need to know about Nothing Bundt Cakes

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Here's what you need to know about Nothing Bundt Cakes

See the renovations at Belleville's City Hall

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See the renovations at Belleville's City Hall

Historic 1870s Belleville home among 300 to be auctioned

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Historic 1870s Belleville home among 300 to be auctioned

Judge discusses changes to Illinois child support

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Judge discusses changes to Illinois child support

'Bump stock:' Watch a demonstration and learn how the gun device works

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'Bump stock:' Watch a demonstration and learn how the gun device works

Edwardsville football clinches playoff spot with win over Collinsville

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Edwardsville football clinches playoff spot with win over Collinsville

Reactions to the 2017 solar eclipse at the Louis Latzer Library

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Reactions to the 2017 solar eclipse at the Louis Latzer Library

In Depth

These historic Belleville homes were crumbling. Now neighborhood has a ‘little renaissance.’

Blogs & Columns

Cheap Seats

Will the Chicago Cubs NLCS loss be a curse in disguise for the St. Louis Cardinals?

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Cubs fans abandon bandwagon at first sign of trouble; Cardinals fans watch with glee

Cheap Seats

Dear St. Louis Cardinals, are you glad you saved the cash on Justin Turner now?

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Historic East Garfield homes being renovated

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Historic East Garfield homes being renovated

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Take a look inside Belleville’s newly renovated City Hall

A few million ways Illinois neglects kids, cops, health care

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A few million ways Illinois neglects kids, cops, health care

How to help save the pollinators vital to our food supply

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How to help save the pollinators vital to our food supply

Here's what you need to know about Nothing Bundt Cakes

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Here's what you need to know about Nothing Bundt Cakes

Man dies in Cahokia house fire

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Man dies in Cahokia house fire

Reactions to the 2017 solar eclipse at the Louis Latzer Library

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Reactions to the 2017 solar eclipse at the Louis Latzer Library

Community has questions as superintendent retires in September

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Community has questions as superintendent retires in September

Belleville aldermen vote to make expiring sales tax permanent

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Belleville aldermen vote to make expiring sales tax permanent

See the renovations at Belleville's City Hall

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See the renovations at Belleville's City Hall

Edwardsville football clinches playoff spot with win over Collinsville

Oct 20, 2017

Edwardsville senior lineman Cale Warrer talks about the Tigers’ win over Collinsville that clinched them a playoff berth.

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Fallen soldier's widow: 'Nothing to say' to Trump

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, file photo, Myeshia Johnson kisses the casket of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson during his burial service at Fred Hunter's Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla. Myeshia Johnson told ABC's

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Trump defends call to fallen soldier's widow

In this March 26, 2014, photograph, made available by the Hope and Homes for Children charity, Princess Marina Sturdza, the patron of the charity, speaks during an event in Bucharest, Romania. Hope and Homes for Children, of which Sturdza was patron, said she died Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017 at her New York home.

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