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Collinsville Police continue to search for missing man

Police are still looking for a man who went missing before Thanksgiving.

DCFS report tracks deaths of metro-east children

The Department of Children and Family Services Inspector General 2013 report shows one natural death...

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School superintendents, from left , Susan Homes, Smithton District 130; Matt Stines, Grant District 110; Julie Brown, Pontiac-William Holliday District 105; and Jon Tallman, Red Bud District 132; rang bells Saturday at St. Clair Square to help the Salvation Army.

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

East St. Louis School District 189 is one of only two school districts in Illinois to be selected as a finalist for the nationwide Race to the Top District grant. The other is Chicago Public Schools. The winner will be announced on or before Dec. ...

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.

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A view of East St. Louis including the Casino Queen and Eads Bridge from atop the St. Louis Arch.

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.

Sports

Tennessee head coach Cuonzo Martin, rear, directs his players against Tennessee Tech during an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn.

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.

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File photo of the Oktoberfest crowd on Belleville's Public Square in 2012.

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.

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.

Nation|World

This undated photo provided by the family via attorney Aaron J. Freiwald shows U.S. Marine Brian LaLoup who died in 2012 while stationed in Greece. LaLoup's parents, Coatesville Pa. residents said when his body arrived home in Pennsylvania his heart was missing, and they’ve sued the Department of Defense. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, his mother, Beverly LaLoup, said a heart was later sent to them, but it wasn't her son's.

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... 2 hours ago

Opinion

Bathon's sorry he got caught

Fred Bathon, the former Madison County treasurer, said he's sorry he rigged county tax auctions. Sorry to be caught and prosecuted, more likely. Sorry to be losing his state pension and going to prison for 30 months. But sorry for the scam that enriched...

2013 Pro Football Contest

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