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The manager of a planned southern Illinois medical marijuana dispensary is warning prospective employees to steer clear of an online ad that purports to offer high-paying retail jobs.Click to Continue »

A former Illinois Department of Human Services caseworker accused of stealing more than $35,000 in funds intended to help poor families has pleaded not guilty to the charges.Click to Continue »

Food trucks in Springfield, Illinois will have to set up shop away from brick-and-mortar restaurants under new city rules.Click to Continue »

A man has told a newspaper that he lied to authorities when he said a former St. Louis jailer, who's now on death row, hired him to kill his ex-wife.Click to Continue »

One of two brothers charged with murder in a central Illinois teenager's shooting death has been sentenced to nearly 70 years in prison.Click to Continue »

Police say one man is dead after a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri.Click to Continue »

A tornado hit the tiny northern Illinois town of Fairdale, killing one person, injuring seven and sweeping homes off their foundations, as part of a storm system that pummeled a…Click to Continue »

Authorities say a robbery suspect who carjacked a truck and took the driver hostage is dead in a shootout with police.Click to Continue »

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a death row inmate is competent to be executed for killing a man in 1998 out of anger over a child support payment.Click to Continue »

Texas prison officials on Thursday executed a man convicted in the slaying of a Dallas-area police officer during a 2002 shootout that followed the killing of a customer outside a…Click to Continue »