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The Champaign County Coroner has confirmed the cause of death for a University of Illinois student found dead on campus last month.

Police said on Friday a man who was shot last weekend in the cit's Fountain Park neighborhood has died.

Baby Olivia isn't a real baby. It's an animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video that has become a new front in state-level abortion politics.

ALTON - Christina Foster Beegle knows grief. She has lost three brothers to suicide and a best friend to a drug overdose. Beegle herself was once homeless and struggling with substance use. Today, Beegle is 26 months clean, and she has decided to do something with her pain. She started Foster’s Light in the Dark, an organization that aims to bring awareness to suicide and overdose deaths while commemorating the loved ones who are lost. Foster’s Light in the Dark has a goal to eventually create a memorial park for people who die by suicide or overdose. “Me helping others helps me in my grief,” Beegle explained. “I can show people that, look, I've been through three suicides. All my mom's sons are dead by suicide and a best friend to a drug overdose. If I can try to help the next person, so can anybody, because we need to get through this together. We need to be a voice for people that can’t." While it’s a big goal, Beegle knows how much

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A 20-year-old man was charged Thursday with the death of his 17-year-old friend at gas station shootout in June.

Blessed by the Ancestors is a new art exhibition that celebrates the rich artistic talent of Black artists hailing from St. Louis. The exhibition serves as a powerful testament to […]

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Santana's album Supernatural won a record-breaking nine trophies at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards, which broke the record held by Michael Jackson’s Thriller for most Grammys won by a single…

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Be amazed. Be amazing! The Science of Guinness World Records, a new exhibition at City Museum, spotlights the world’s greatest record holders and what it took for them to cement […]

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The Foundry Art Centre is going to the dogs! Wag is an interactive art exhibition curated and designed specifically for our furry best friends. Featured artists of this unique exhibition […]

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Native American Art of the 20th Century: The William P. Healey Collection celebrates a transformative gift of outstanding works by Native American artists active across the 20th century. The promised […]

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Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American, New York–based artist who works in print, film, sculpture and painting. Her practice explores globalization, overconsumption, environmentalism and femininity. Through her expansive body of work, […]

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Running from Feb. 17 to May 12, Matisse and the Sea is the first exhibition to examine the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included […]

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Green Door Art Gallery presents Hooked on Fibers: The Art of the Stitch, featuring rug hooking textile art by Sheri Ahner, and mixed media fiber art by Chris Burton, Liz […]

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Authorities say a Virginia college student reported missing last week was apparently seen at a Missouri restaurant on Wednesday before he left the restaurant alone and drove away.

A St. Louis judge has asked the Missouri Attorney General's Office to look into a bank account controlled by Sheriff Vernon Betts. St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Joan Moriarty announced the referral last week at a 22nd Circuit Court Rules Committee meeting. The referral had been made by Judge Elizabeth Hogan.