The 23-year-old right-hander has put on 10 to 15 pounds since last year and still rates as one of baseball’s top prospects.

One thing I’ve always focused on is building relationships within the community,” the new superintendent said.

This is something that you see in movies and TV shows and think, ‘There’s no way that could really happen,’” he said.

In a 2023 case that’s still pending, the state’s attorneys office charged Lannert with making a terrorist threat, a Class X felony. The complaint alleges that he called police dispatch and threatened ...

A metro-east man has been charged with multiple felonies afer he allegedly held a Cahokia Heights woman and her son hostage ...

Proposed legislation in the Illinois House of Representatives would lower the state’s legal blood alcohol content threshold for driving under the influence from 0.08 to 0.05. If the bill passes, ...

Four Illinois cities are among the least popular in the U.S. for millennials to move to, according to a recent analysis from financial company SmartAsset.

“Operating a drug house steps away from a park puts families and children at risk,” U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft said in ...

The East St. Louis school board is considering selling up to $29 million in working cash fund bonds — a move that could affect future property tax rates — for school projects its superintendent said ...

Belt and state Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, told the village in March 2024 that they were working on securing $4.75 million in funding, with $650,000 going for upgrades to Yorktown Golf Course and ...

In the early 1990s, Edgar Ellis applied for a job in Belleville, putting him in the middle of a federal investigation over ...

We’ve always felt very comfortable and very safe — and everyone who comes here says the same thing,” she said.