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In the latest incident this Saturday, Missouri State Highway Patrol said Bryan Wilson drowned trying to save a woman struggling to swim in the Meramec River.

SAUGET- Prairie Du Pont and Sauget Fire Department responded to a truck that had struck a train and caught fire Saturday morning at around 2 a.m. on Illinois Route 3. When firefighters arrived on the scene they located a male deceased and the truck and train engine were on fire. Investigators say the railroad had its lights and gates activated when the collision occurred. Route 3 from Monsanto Avenue to Queeny Avenue was closed after the crash but reopened just after 8 a.m. The driver of the truck was pronounced dead at the scene by the St Clair County Coroner's Office. No other injuries were reported Illinois State Police is investigating the accident.

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CareSTL Health hosted its annual back-to-school health fair on Saturday.

O'FALLON - A 2.4 on the Richter Scale magnitude earthquake was reported at 1:50 a.m. Saturday morning one-kilometer south-southwest of O'Fallon, Illinois, at a depth of .3 kilometers. The USGS has received reports from at least 11 people on the earthquake as of Saturday afternoon. No injuries have been reported, and no damage from the earthquake was reported. The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs. The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is a 150-mile-long fault zone spanning four states in the Midwestern United States (see Figure 1). The NMSZ lies within the central Mississippi Valley, extending from northeast Arkansas, through southeast Missouri, western Tennessee, and western Kentucky to southern Illinois.

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A man drowned Saturday afternoon in the Meramec River near Eureka while attempting to rescue a woman in the water, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The driver was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

One man died Saturday morning in a collision involving a train and a truck in the Metro East.

Abbott, the maker of Similac baby formula, was ordered to pay $95 million in compensatory damages and $400 million in punitive damages.

The incident happened at the MO-109 overpass.