Police are investigating a break-in early Sunday at a post office building in East St. Louis; officers said electrical lines and telephone wires were cut, and the building had been ransacked.
Today's talk around the water cooler ...
Washington Park police have hit and run video; urge driver to turn himself in
Tickling kids gets Glen Carbon lawyer banned from park
New Baden man pleads guilty in murder-for-hire plan; mom was in on it
Archive diving: Images from the News-Democrat vault ... Be the first to correctly name these 10 local leaders from their 1982 pictures, shown in a video below, and you could win a News-Democrat coffee mug or a bnd.com water bottle. Send answers to online@bnd.com and include "CONTEST" in the note line. Also please include your name and mailing address so we can send prizes to the winners.
Here's the video. Good luck ...
It's that time of year again — when high school has resumed and thousands of metro-east kids are back playing prep sports. To see the latest news and features on the metro-east high school sports scene, click here. Or to get our preps sports headlines and hyperlinked stories e-mailed to you each morning, register on our site and click on the option to sign up for the preps newsletter.
What do you like about the News-Democrat? What could be improved? What should we add to the paper and website? What shouldn't we do that we're doing? Executive Editor Jeffry Couch is asking those questions and more; let him know what you think about your newspaper and website.
The Belleville News-Democrat, 150 years old this year, is marking the occasion with a book, "150 Years, 150 Headlines," chronicling hallmark events in the metro-east in the last century and a half. Watch this video to see how you can get your copy of the book.
— Online Editor Joe Ostermeier
Online Producer Carla Anderson
