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The accident happened late Friday in St. Clair County on Collinsville Road. A truck hit the ATV that was pulling the moped.

Yelp recently released its updated Top 100 U.S. Donut Shops list, which offers praise to two donut shops based in the St. Louis area. Pharaoh's Dounts and The Donut Shop ranked 23rd and 100th respectively in the list.

Firefighters rescued seven people trapped in a carnival ride Friday night in Kirkwood.

The Roman Catholic Church excommunicated and defrocked the Rev. Marek Bozek for pastoring St. Stanislaus. He’s leaving the "inclusive" congregation he molded.

WASHINGTON — Abbott Nutrition has restarted production at the Michigan baby formula factory that has been closed for months due to contamination, the company said Saturday, taking a step toward easing a nationwide supply shortage expected to persist into the summer. The February shutdown of the largest formula factory in the country led to the supply problems that have [...]

Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin. Researchers have known that for decades. But the substance stuck around for decades in everyday products such as paint and gasoline.  One big reason: The …

Federal indictment of Lewis Reed, Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad challenges tradition of aldermanic courtesy.

Police say a vehicle was towing a disabled moped without working taillights before the collision.

The Joplin woman was murdered on May 29, 2016, by her former landlord.

Munchin’ and Musing When I eat out, I consider a number of things: menu, ambiance, location, hours/days, seating, parking, service, my guests’ preferences. I seldom get the whole package. But I come near. Most often, I select one of the places shown below, depending on what I’ve a hankerin’ for at the time. Let’s Eat... 

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Boyd's lawyer initially said Thursday he would not resign from his post on the board.

EDWARDSVILLE – On Friday, May 27, the Illinois Industrial Biotechnology Partnership Act was signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker and establishes the Industrial Biotechnology Public-Private Partnership as a State-sponsored board consisting of specified members to promote and market Illinois as a destination for research, development and commercialization for industrial biotechnology. The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center (NCERC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been a leading institution for research in industrial biotechnology in Illinois and the United States since its doors opened in 2003. Today, it celebrates the signing of this historic legislation. The bill was passed unanimously by both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate with bipartisan support. The Partnership will consist of 12 members, including the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Illinois Department of

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NORMAL - In Illinois as elsewhere, Civil War troops came from a wide variety of occupations. In one regiment, many men were future teachers. The 33rd Illinois Infantry, which originated at Illinois State University in Normal, was famously known as the “Teacher’s Regiment” since a high number of the men were students. The nickname was a nod to the original purpose of Illinois State, which was teacher training. A number of men from the Riverbend area were in the 33rd, which holds a special place in the history of both the university and the state. The outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861 riveted the university, which had been founded only four years before as the state’s first public institution of higher learning. Many students remembered that the war was foremost on everyone’s minds, and students could barely concentrate on their studies. President Lincoln’s first call for troops was for a ninety-day enlistment, but it soon became apparent

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