Lawmakers want more money to gauge levee risks
Senators on Wednesday called for more federal money to study the safety of levees after dozens of breaches contributed to heavy flooding across the Midwest last month.
Senators on Wednesday called for more federal money to study the safety of levees after dozens of breaches contributed to heavy flooding across the Midwest last month.
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Brandon Bouck's head dropped, his shoulders slumped, then he began to cry. A Madison County judge had just sentenced him to seven years in prison for second-degree murder of a homeless man after he beat and robbed him of a can of beer.
Pick your-own-peach season has begun at local orchards, so get ready to take a bite out of this sweet fruit.
Bill Hall is making his case to become a full-time player. Hall homered to snap a late-inning tie for the second straight game, and the Milwaukee Brewers caught up with Kyle Lohse, beating the Cardinals and their surprise ace 4-3.
East St. Louis seniors Tommie Hopkins and Terry Hawthorne have given verbal commitments to attend the University of Illinois beginning in the 2009 season. Verbal commitments are nonbinding. The national letter-of-intent signing date is Feb. 2.
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Police cruised the usual hot spots Saturday night, looking for drug deals going down, guns and violence, and people with drugs they intended to deliver.
Like paratroopers ready to leap into the wild blue yonder, dozens of bats lined up on a rafter in the attic of Carolyn Stopyra's home on North 15th Street. Then, one by one, they wiggled through a half-inch-wide, six-inch-long opening between bricks to the sultry night outside.
A 32-year-old Wood River man has been identified as the person killed in an accident that injured three others at 3:23 p.m. Tuesday on a ramp from Illinois 255 to Illinois 143.
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Michael Anderegg captured this image of lightning over a metro-east neighborhood as a thunderstorm rolled through Monday night. More photos
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