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One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base.
Just when it looked like Triad was going to grab a third-place trophy at the IHSA boys soccer state finals at North Central College, Freeport reminded the Knights there are 80 minutes in regulation.
Saturday's results from the high school football playoff games involving metro-east teams:
A shoot-out at a Brooklyn strip club early Saturday littered the parking lot with shell casings, sent one man to the hospital, put five in jail and led the shooter to flee.
The St. Clair County Drug Tactical Unit executed a search warrant at a Swansea home on Friday morning and found drugs and guns.
After a month-long hiatus, the weekly flights of flowers flown straight in from South America to MidAmerica St. Louis Airport are set to resume by the end of November.
There's a new arson dog in town and she's eager to put her nose to work. Onyx, a two-year-old Black English Labrador Retriever, is one of the two newest arson sniffing dogs in the state working for the Illinois Office of the State Fire Marshal's Arson Investigation Division.
Another suffocating performance on defense Friday catapulted the O'Fallon Panthers into the quarterfinals of the Class 7A playoffs.
Michael Jackson's father is seeking an allowance from his son's estate to help cover expenses that exceed $15,000 a month, according to court documents filed Friday.
A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been abducted from her posh Florida beach community.
Family and friends of Michael Pearson and Francheska Velez understood that their joining the military could cost them their lives.
Metro-east leaders hate it that sales tax revenue to repair the Mississippi River levees is coming in much slower than expected. Instead of the 1(*218*)4-cent tax generating about $12 million during its first year, they estimate it'll be closer to $10 million.