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Lawsuit: Former inmates allege St. Clair County strip searches were illegal

Two former inmates who allege they were humiliated during strip searches at the St. Clair County...

Another trustee appointed to replace felon in Washington Park

A village trustee who was appointed last month to replace her husband on the board after he pleaded...

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Ground breaking ceremony for the new Memorial Hospital East

Groundbreaking in Shiloh gets work going on Memorial Hospital-East

Right now, it is a field. But in about two years, a new hospital in Shiloh will be treating its first patients.

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.

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In this May 3, 2013 photo, Minnesota Republican Rep. Pat Garofalo is shown at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Garofalo sent a tweet Sunday, March 9, 2014 that read: "Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime." Within two hours of his tweet, more than 600 people retweeted it , with many on social media calling it racist.

Minnesota GOP lawmaker apologizes for NBA tweet

A Minnesota lawmaker apologized Monday for his tweet about NBA players that some saw as racist, saying he was rightly held accountable for inaccurate stereotyping. 12 minutes ago

Sports

Aledmys Diaz during talks to the media at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla., on Monday morning. The Cardinals signed Diaz to a four-year contract Sunday.

Cardinals postcard from Florida

The young man on the plane from Atlanta to West Palm Beach, Fla., had good intentions Sunday afternoon. But in the end, things are sometimes best left alone. 1 hour ago

Features

Dairy Haven in Collinsville celebrates its 60th anniversary.

60 years of swirl: What's so good about the orange sherbet at Dairy Haven?

Susan Hill’s ice cream stand, Dairy Haven in Caseyville, is marking its 60th year in business this season. Hill has witnessed more than half of those years, first as an employee and the past 13 years as the owner. Over six decades, the Dairy ...

State|Region

'Pure cronyism': Clerk's spouse earned $146K from troubled program

Tens of thousands of dollars earmarked for an anti-violence program launched by Gov. Pat Quinn in 2010 was paid to the husband of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown, causing at least one top Republican to call it "pure cronyism." 3 hours ago

Nation|World

This handout photo provided by the University of Sussex, taken in April 2011, shows a wild elephant in Amboseli National Park in Kenya reacting to sound played by scientists in experiments that show they can distinguish between human languages and genders. Elephants are so clever they use their famed memory to be discriminating listeners of us humans. That way they can determine who is a threat and who isn’t, according to study released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is an advanced thinking skill that no other non-human animal have demonstrated, scientists say.

How smart are elephants? They can distinguish voices, genders

Dr. Seuss had it right: Horton really does hear a Who. Wild elephants can distinguish between human languages, and they can tell whether a voice comes from a man, woman or boy, a new study says. 1 hour ago

Opinion

It's a parent's job to care for children

In St. Clair County, a shocking 27.5 percent of children live in poverty, according to the latest Kids Count. That's seven percentage points higher than the state average.

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