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Changes are coming to the business landscape near the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Belleville.

Ron Hettenhausen and his wife, Jo Ann Endres, at the bicycle shop on West Main Street.

Belleville bike shop owner is closing his doors

By this time next month, Ron Hettenhausen will no longer be peddling bicycles.

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The field at right is part of the proposed site of the Marissa medical marijuana facility, located on the north side of Illinois Route 13 (shown at left) in this photo looking westward.

St. Clair County Board to vote on medical pot farm in Marissa

A proposal for a medical marijuana farm in Marissa will go before the St. Clair County Board tonight. 29 minutes ago

Crime

2 die from overdoses in Madison County

Two recent deaths in Madison County were caused by drug overdoses, according to the coroner.

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St. Clair County tangles with landowners over widening Frank Scott Parkway

St. Clair County is continuing its two-year fight to use eminent domain to take land needed to improve a busy intersection at Frank Scott Parkway East and Old Collinsville Road in Swansea.

Sports

National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, from left to right, Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox hold their plaques after an induction ceremony at the Clark Sports Center on Sunday, July 27, 2014, in Cooperstown, N.Y.

La Russa at Cooperstown: 'Being really lucky is a a Hall of Fame credential'

Frank Thomas choked back tears, Joe Torre apologized for leaving people out of his speech and Tony La Russa said he felt uneasy. 3 hours ago

Features

Georgia Martin's job as a commercial lasphalt sales manager takes her to towns throughout the area. She picked up this gas staion find from a guy in Pinckneyville who restored old gas statini pumps and gauges.

Neglected house on the Bluff becomes showcase with a view

Georgia Martin climbed a steep rock path to a lookout bench high above her home.

State|Region

“There’s a principle as old as the Bible,” Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, seen here on July 22, 2014 in Chicago, said. “If you work 40 hours a week, if you’re doing your job, you shouldn’t have to live in poverty.”

Quinn agrees to live on minimum wage income — for a while

Gov. Pat Quinn agreed on Sunday to briefly live on the equivalent of a minimum-wage salary as he rallies support for a Nov. 4 Illinois ballot measure on the issue.

Nation|World

A large pile of coal sits in front of train cars carrying coal at Dominion Terminal Associates’ coal terminal in Newport News, Va., on May 22, 2014. Over the last six years, American energy companies have sent more coal than ever before to other parts of the world, in some cases to places with more lax environmental standards. As the Obama administration weans the U.S. off dirty fuels blamed for global warming, energy companies have been sending more of America’s unwanted energy leftovers to other parts of the world, where they could create even more pollution.

Not in my backyard: US sending dirty coal abroad

As the Obama administration weans the U.S. off dirty fuels blamed for global warming, energy companies have been sending more of America’s unwanted energy leftovers to other parts of the world where they could create even more pollution.

Opinion

In context, Illinois unemployment rate isn't so good

Less is making Illinois' unemployment rate look better, but the Illinois Policy Institute explains that it's a distorted view. The unemployment rate dropped from 7.5 percent to 7.1 percent in June. However, the improvement is not because of job creation...

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