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  • Fairview Heights police sergeant cleared of DUI

     

    BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a drunken-driving charge against a southwestern Illinois police sergeant a day before his trial was to begin.

     

    July 20, 2012

  • Lawyers for ex-governor before appeals court

    CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for imprisoned former Illinois Gov. George Ryan are going before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to contest his conviction on several corruption charges.

    July 20, 2012

  • Honeywell to lay off 228 workers

    METROPOLIS, Ill. (AP) — Honeywell plans to lay off nearly 230 workers at its southern Illinois plant as it undertakes upgrades ordered by regulators to make the site able to withstand an earthquake or tornado.

    July 20, 2012

  • Mattoon woman sentenced in sex abuse case

    CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor in east-central Illinois says he agreed to reduce the charge against a Mattoon woman accused of sexually abusing a girl because it was a "one-time incident."

    July 20, 2012

  • Body found of Villa Ridge man

    WICKLIFFE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky authorities have identified a body found in the Ohio River as that of a southern Illinois man.

    July 19, 2012

  • Heat blamed in East St. Louis man's death

    EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in East St. Louis say Illinois' recent heat wave is to blame in the death of a 62-year-old homeless man whose body was found in a vacant building.

    July 19, 2012

  • Woman gets 10 years in abductions

    EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to a decade in prison in the abductions of four children.

    July 18, 2012

  • Medically fragile children win delay on cuts

    CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for parents of medically fragile children says Illinois will delay a cut to a program that pays for the children's in-home nursing care for another 90 days.

     

    July 18, 2012

  • Illinois among few states passing anti-cramming laws

    CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has become one of the few states in the country to ban a telephone scam known as "cramming."

    July 18, 2012

  • Flight attendant helps land plane in Chicago

    Officials say a flight attendant who has a pilot’s license helped land a plane at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport when a co-pilot became ill.

    June 15, 2010