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A Carthage man has admitted to breaking the fingers of two police officers while being arrested last year on suspicion of shoplifting a refrigerator filter from a store.Click to Continue »

A former clerk for the city of Chicago has pleaded guilty to charges she stole about $741,000 in taxpayer money for personal use.Click to Continue »

An exhibit of relics salvaged from the Titanic is headed to Peoria's Riverfront Museum.Click to Continue »

College basketball great Frank Kaminsky will have his high-school jersey number retired Thursday in Lisle (LYL').Click to Continue »

Authorities are investigating after a man's body was found in the pond of a St. Louis park.Click to Continue »

Missouri American Water has lifted a boil water advisory for customers in parts of north St. Louis County.Click to Continue »

An all-star tribute to the late gospel artists Andrae Crouch and Walter Hawkins is part of the lineup for the 30th Chicago Gospel Music Festival.Click to Continue »

Artist Rick Harney was busy this week sprucing up the Roger Ebert statue outside the Virginia Theatre in Champaign for the start of Ebertfest.Click to Continue »

An effort to find and digitize all of President Abraham Lincoln's papers is getting a boost from document storage company Iron Mountain Inc.Click to Continue »

Missouri lawmakers say they want to regulate facilities where individuals can go and use brewing equipment to make their own alcoholic beverages, including beer, hard cider or mead.Click to Continue »