STL Cardinals first pitcher Chris Carpenter is the 40th best player in the MLB baseball team’s history. Carpenter won 2 Cy Young and Comeback Player of the Year awards winner and a World Series in 2006 and 2011.
The Effingham, Illinois High School Flaming Hearts defeated the Breese, IL. Mater Dei Knights 42-40 in the title game of the Class 3A Salem Girls Basketball Sectional Tournament in Salem, Il.
Medical marijuana growers in Illinois have formed a political action committee and are spending money in an attempt to limit the market if recreational use of the drug is legalized in the state.
STL Cardinals first pitcher Ernie Broglio is the 41st best player in the MLB baseball team’s history. Ernie Broglio is best known as the pitcher St. Loius traded to the Chicago Cubs for Hall of Famer Lou Brock.
A Republican in the Illinois General Assembly says all elected officials in the state should be required to wear body cameras while conducting government business.
Two brothers who told police that Jussie Smollett paid them $3,500 to help stage an attack on himself were linked to the actor through the "Empire" television series, and court documents allege one of the men provided Smollett with designer drugs.
As CBD products become more common on store shelves throughout Chicago, city officials are keeping track of businesses that say they are selling the increasingly trendy products.
The Belleville, Illinois Althoff Catholic High School Crusaders defeated the Granite City Warriors 60-49 in an IHSA basketball game played in Belleville, IL, Wednesday, Feb. 20.
The Missouri Attorney General, Eric Schmitt, will investigate a St. Louis daycare that hosted a “fight club” where young children were filmed fist fighting each other in 2016.
Nonprofit behind the effort to merge St. Louis city and county says the consolidation would save the region’s taxpayers nearly $5 billion in the first 10 years.
Lawyers for white Chicago police officer convicted of murder for fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald say prosecutors have no right to challenge his nearly 7-year prison term.
CBD shops are set to start popping up in malls throughout the Chicago area this spring, as the cannabis compound continues its march toward mainstream retail.
A small funeral home was packed with hundreds of mourners of a 21-year-old college student who was killed on the first day of his internship when a worker opened fire inside an Illinois manufacturing facility.
STL Cardinals first baseman Ripper Collins is the 42th best player in the MLB baseball team’s history. The first baseman for the Gas House Gang was a an All-Star, home run champion, and World Series hero.
Ned Mitchell, the former mayor of Sesser, Illinois, faces five felony charges in Franklin County Court that stem from manufacturing and distributing meth and armed violence.
A police chase that began in Dupo, Illinois, ended with a crash on the Poplar Street Bridge between the metro-east and St. Louis. Charges are pending against the driver. It is unknown why he fled.
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Southern Illinois aldermen, trustees will appoint a new, temporary township supervisor at their Feb. 19 meeting after longtime Madison County IL politican Bob Shipley died at a hospital February 17, 2019.
St. Louis-area leaders have set an ambitious goal in addressing homelessness among veterans: All should have a stable place to live by Veterans Day in November.
Employees of Henry Pratt Co. on Monday returned to their Aurora workplace for what company officials said was “an opportunity to come together and support each other” in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting there.
A Southern Illinois man has been sentenced to prison time for distribution of drugs. He was charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance containing fentanyl and a jury convicted him.
Police were investigating after a gunman fired shots into a car with a 3-month-old baby in the backseat. There were no injuries in the shooting crime that took place in Southern Illinois.
Fortel’s Pizza Den, an old place to eat, has closed its location in Southern Illinois. The food eatery will continue to operate its Affton, MO location where Bob Fortel opened the pizza restaurant in 1981.
Pope Francis has warned bishops that the Catholic faithful are demanding more than just condemnation of clergy sex abuse but concrete action to respond to the scandal.
