Local scoreboard
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:33:02 -0700
FYI today PREP?BOYS?SOCCER Elyria Christian at Nickerson, 4 p.m. Hutchinson at Newton, 6:30 ...
Former officer pleads guilty in shooting
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:55:02 -0700
Bryan Pour could receive as little as probation — or up to 15 years in prison — after pleading guilty Monday to a reduced charge in a shooting outside a Pontoon Beach sports bar in 2008, when he was a St. Louis police officer.
Central point guard headed to prep school
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:39:26 -0700
Bobo is gone. Antonio “Bobo” Drummond, a junior basketball point guard, has enrolled in a prep school in northwest Indiana and will not attend Peoria High this fall. He enrolled last week at La Lumiere School in LaPorte, Ind.
Ex-St. Louis officer enters plea in Illinois shooting
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:04:50 -0700
Off-duty officers were at Pontoon Beach bar
Sexual assault allegations included in complaints against metro-east police officer
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:54:19 -0700
Lawrence Davis is chairman of the three-member Venice Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, overseers of this often violent village’s police force.
Prep Spotlight: Stults' hat trick lifts SHS soccer team
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:28:16 -0700
QUINCY — Jake Stults scored three goals Saturday to lead the Springfield High Senators past the Quincy Notre Dame Raiders 4-2.
Area schedule
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:01:34 -0700
TODAY'S EVENTS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Plainfield South at Chicago Raby, 7 p.m.; Jacobs at Joliet West, 1; Lincoln-Way East vs. Edwardsville at Illinois State, 11 a.m.COLLEGE FOOTBALL: USF at Marian (Ind.), 6 p.m. MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: JJC at Harper Invite, 10 a.m.WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: JJC at Harper Invite, 10 a.m.GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY: JCA at Kickoff Classic, 8 a.m.; Normal Community at Lincoln-Way ...
Man asks for new trial on meth charge
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:33:15 -0700
EDWARDSVILLE - A Cottage Hills man will have to wait a few more weeks to find out whether he must serve 30 years in prison after his lawyer claimed a juror might have been contaminated but offered no evidence.
law and order
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:20:02 -0700
ST. LOUIS > Man gets prison for murder • Darel Lotts, 22, ofLake Saint Louis, was sentenced Friday to life in prison withoutthe possibility of parole in the shooting of two men, one of whomdied, when a drug deal went awry in July 2008 in St. Louis. InJuly, a jury convicted Lotts, of the 12500 block of SparklingDrive, of first-degree murder, first-degree assault and armedcriminal action in the ...
Area sports reports
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:28:19 -0700
The following is a list of sports events, youth league registrations and other news for metro-east residents wanting to participate in organized activities. Organizations or individuals with information for this list should mail the item to: News-Democrat, P.O. Box 427, 120 S. Illinois St., Belleville, IL 62222. Items also can be e-mailed to Norm Sanders at nsanders@bnd.com ...
Veteran's Day services scheduled
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:45:32 -0700
With fall rapidly approaching, the Glen Carbon Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2222 and Glen Carbon American Legion Post 435 are planning for the annual pre-Veterans Day Services at the Glen Carbon Veterans Monument.
The Fed's Biggest Bubble: US Treasuries
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:48:45 -0700
I've made a living out of exposing economic fallacies, but there's one whale that I can't seem to harpoon. Even top-flight Wall Street analysts seem to believe that the Fed's doubling of the monetary base after the credit crunch has not had an inflationary impact on our economy.
Man pleads guilty, gets 22 years for murder of former SIUE student
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:55:22 -0700
An Edwardsville man pleaded guilty on Monday to the strangulation murder of his lover, and was immediately sentenced to 22 years in prison as part of a plea agreement.
Volunteers answer call: Hundreds offer to join CART
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:03:33 -0700
ROXANA — Almost 300 people answered the call for Child Abduction Response Team volunteers at Central Elementary School in Roxana Saturday.
City's crime rate remains very low
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:46:02 -0700
Edwardsville’s police chief says the city’s crime rate remains “very low.”
Reavis' Rychtarczyk goal-oriented
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:04:43 -0700
Paul Rychtarczyk is a marked man for the upcoming boys soccerseason. That's what happens when you lead the state in goals as ajunior, and follow that with 27 goals in 13 games in summer leagueplay. "I know people will be coming after me," the Reavis senior said. "I'm not afraid of anything."
Thornberry makes switch to Belleville West
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:28:35 -0700
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Logan answers call to fill late opening to coach Alton girls tennis
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:18:13 -0700
GODFREY - Robert Logan has a different tennis task and he's effusively embracing it. Logan, 24, is the new Alton High girls' tennis coach.
Reaction to Blagojevich verdict and timeline of events
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:34:01 -0700
ILLINOIS (AP) -- Reaction from around Illinois to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's conviction on one count of lying to federal agents at his federal corruption trial:
Business news: Bank begins recycling effort
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:44:39 -0700
LAW George Ripplinger, principal of the law firm Ripplinger and Zimmer LLC, of Belleville and St. Louis, accepted an invitation to be an Illinois member of The American Trial Lawyers Association. Membership is limited to the top 100 trial lawyers from each state. Selection is extended to civil plaintiff and criminal defense attorneys by special invitation. Ripplinger concentrates his practice in ...
