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TONIELLI Minnie A. Tonielli of Marseilles recently celebrated her 97th birthday.

Mrs. Marie Vota, 103, of East Brooklyn, Ill., passed away Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at her home.

A strip joint, a late-night shooting, at least 30 shell casings recovered, three weapons five arrests, and one man hospitalized: Was Adam "Pacman" Jones in town Saturday this weekend? Yes, the Belleville News-Democrat is reporting yet another shooting incident at a Brooklyn, Illinois strip club, this one at the Bottoms Up Nightclub .

A shootout at a Brooklyn, Illinois strip club send one person to the hospital and five people to jail.

A woman led police on a chase into Missouri early Wednesday morning and at one point police fired into her van before police were able to arrest her.

Mayor Alvin L. Parks Jr. said Thursday a recent lawsuit filed by two former police board commissioners accusing him of discrimination in refusing to hire a white candidate for police chief is ridiculous and unfounded.

Mayor Alvin L. Parks Jr. said Thursday a recent lawsuit filed by two former police board commissioners accusing him of discrimination in refusing to hire a white candidate for police chief is ridiculous and unfounded.

Two former police commissioners are accusing the mayor and city manager of refusing to hire a former state police commander as police chief because he is white.

The new police chief's promise to crack down on nudity in some Alton bars resulted in an allegedly topless female bartender being charged with lewd entertainment early Thursday.

Here's an update to a story we posted last week . Police in Illinois believe they've nabbed the man who shot and killed 22-year-old Dion E. Hardin last week as Hardin left Club Peek-a-Boo in Brooklyn, Illinois.

St. Clair County State Attorney charged Dorian E. Boyd on Thursday with one count of First Degree Murder.

As some former Obama fans see the president's stance on health care shift from his pre-election promises, a new question has arisen.

A Fairview Heights man pleaded guilty Friday to giving a fatal injection of cocaine to a 31-year-old Belleville woman who police initially thought died from an accidental self-overdose. Joseph Perrone injected Terry Learn with cocaine in April 2008 and she died immediately, according to evidence presented Friday at Perrone's change-of-plea hearing.

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man outside a Brooklyn strip club.

Authorities in Brooklyn, Illinois, are investigating the killing this morning of 22-year-old Dion E. Hardin.

A 22-year-old Brooklyn, Illinois man who was shot as he left a club early Tuesday morning has died.

This is 1 of 6 unusual ads run by a physician in suburban St. Louis County for his medical practice .

A 35-year-old St. Louis man was shot Sunday morning at a Metro East nightclub, police said.

One million dollars more is all that it will take to reach a goal that will give Brooklyn Il Centro, a $16 million multi-purpose Italian-American cultural center that a large nonprofit organization plans to build within the next decade.

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