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March 5, 2016

• Meet your delegates: the people who will vote for presidential candidates at the conventions
• Campaign dropouts can’t take it with them
• Seven Collinsville department heads repaid credit card purchases over four-year period
• From zero to hero: Unruly German Shepherd from local shelter becomes bomb-sniffer
• Centreville woman gets 12 years for hiding death of baby born in toilet, tossed from window
• Rescue workers conduct missing-person search in Fairmont City area
• Man’s foot severed when he falls onto MetroLink tracks in Swansea
• Landmarks on a drive back home: A giant plastic Hereford, and billboards that are just a memory
• Partly sunny skies today; high in mid-50s
• Giving more credit at Belleville high schools
• ‘Serious hustler’: Nigerian fraudster who pretended to be spy from Mascoutah admits romantic cons
• Friday’s sports scores
• Gateway Motorsports Park hosting major racing triple-header June 25; will involve NASCAR, USAC and ARCA
• Althoff cruises past Highland 81-56 to take Class 3A Triad Regional title
• Edwardsville holds on against Belleville East, hands Waldo his 20th regional championship
• Gibault knocks off Okawville for sectional title, one win away from state
• Columbia holds off Mater Dei in a wild finish to win first 3A regional title
• Cougars smash Nashville in 2A Championship
• Highland takes third at Class 3A Girls State Basketball Tournament
• Clutch players: Highland’s Portell, Ponce provide thrills despite disappointing loss