Columbia News

Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.

McLean, of Belleville, said he wants to devote more time to his family as well as growing his insurance business.

A series of coffee houses cropped up across the metro-east area and beyond to satisfy your craving for caffeine and casinos.

Two hikers were on a walk in the Stemler Cave Woods Nature Preserve when they heard the sound of wimpering dogs.

There is debate in Columbia, Illinois over whether or not to end the decades old practice of sounding the civil defense sirens twice every day.

Last year the market spread from the parking lot at the corner of West Main and First streets to a parking area along West Main and the northwest quadrant of the Belleville Public Square.

Sean Rickey is a freshman at Columbia High School. Shelby Rickey is in seventh grade and Bridget Rickey is in sixth grade at the Columbia Middle School.

Lincoln-Way East High School ranks among the top high schools in America, according to a ranking of public schools released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report magazine .

An appeal has been filed to restore a dismissed wrongful death lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries, which employed Christopher Coleman who was convicted of the strangulation of his wife and two sons.

Congratulations, you're a graduating senior. The unemployment rate is over 7 percent nationwide, but for you, it could be over 10 percent.

The St. Louis-based telephone, Internet and cable television provider has announced its Charter Phone service is now available in Dupo, Columbia and Waterloo.