St Clair County News

Today would have been Abraham Lincoln's 203rd birthday. To celebrate, the BND pulled out some fun facts about Honest Abe's connections to the metro-east: The future 16th president's speeches were not all as powerful as the famous Gettysburg Address.

Things could have ended up much differently for 18-year-old Curtis Warner. A year ago he was staring down at time behind bars.

All six candidates hoping to serve in Congress share what they would do to put the 12th District back to work On a blustery afternoon last week, Hipskind, of Belleville, spoke with a reporter outside the Dollar Tree store in Bellevue Plaza in Belleville.

Wendell E. Bennett Jr., 21, was charged on Saturday with vehicular invasion and mob action.

The 77-year-old man who walked away from a Belleville nursing home last month and later died in the cold had wandered off from the facility two times in the weeks and months before his final disappearance, according to an inspection report released Friday by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

The 2011 Illinois Agricultural Statistics Annual Bulletin dropped on my desk the other day, and there were few surprises.

Washington Park -- Police are looking for a 27-year old Washington Park man who they said beat an elderly man over a television set.

A 30-year-old man was found dead early Thursday of a suspected drug overdose in the bathroom of a Belleville gas station about 14 hours after his wife survived a possible overdose two blocks away in the bathroom of Bethany Place.

One in five children in Illinois live in poverty, according to Illinois Kids Count 2012 data released Thursday by the organization Voices for Illinois Children.

The daughter of a man who was fatally shot Wednesday outside his home and her boyfriend have been charged with first-degree murder.

Police responded to the 3500 block of Bond Avenue just before 12:30 a.m. Thursday morning for a report of shots fired.

Even though Illinois was considered a slavery-free state, Lydia Titus had to win her freedom four times while living within the state's borders.

St. Clair County Associate Judge Andrew Gleeson on Thursday ordered Belleville attorney Edward Brennan to establish a $2 million bond in a restricted money market account.

The owners of Club Peek-a-Boo are accused of failing to protect a man shot to death inside the St.

A former railroad worker who was allegedly hurt while working for Union Pacific Railroad Company is allowed a new trial for knee injuries he sustained on the job, the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois ruled Friday.

Louis nightclub after claiming to have suffered injuries during a no-holds-barred melee made infamous last April after video footage emerged and circulated across YouTube.

The city of Centreville will have to foot its own bills for its border dispute with the village of Alorton.

Lakin, 71, was scheduled for release in November on federal charges of supplying minors with cocaine.

St. Clair County Associate Judge Laninya Cason admits it felt a little weird to be at a candidate forum Saturday coordinated by Tea Party-type groups.

Shiloh illinois Police say Basilia Rodriguez has been charged with unlawful failure to register as a sex offender and is being held at the St.