Columbia News

Christopher Coleman's defense lawyers sent subpoenas to local media outlets so they can make a case for moving his trial because of the extensive pre-trial publicity, according to law professors.

The man who police said fatally shot himself in the chest while trying to change a tire was set to stand trial the next day on child molestation and sodomy charges.

A man appears to have accidentally shot himself in the chest when he pulled out a jack from his pickup truck, it snagged his shotgun case and the gun fired.

A metro-east home builders group is objecting to a proposal that would require any home built in Millstadt to have a certain percentage of brick.

Edwardsville at Granite City, 7:30 p.m. at US Ice, Fairview Heights Triad vs. Timberland, 6:50 p.m. Waterloo vs.

Blast crews are trying to topple large rocks that hang over interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee border.

An American Bulldog named Daisy Mae must be dizzy after giving birth to 21 pups.

Fox news, in their Across America report, has video of a dog owner in Columbia, IL sharing news of the birth of 21 puppies to his American Bulldog.

There were 101 Dalmatians, but not in a single litter. That's why everyone is amazed to learn that an American Bulldog near Columbia, Illinois, delivered no less than 21 adorable pups.

World-renowned televangelist, Joyce Meyer, may soon have to testify in the civil case filed over the murders of a Columbia, Illinois mother and her two sons.

Legoland may be coming to downstate Illinois . Illinois officials are in talks with a European company over tax breaks that could lure a lego amusement park to the tiny town of Glen Carbon , just outside of St.

A European company is quietly talking with Illinois officials about tax incentives to build a $200 million Legoland amusement park in the Glen Carbon area, the Post-Dispatch has learned.

A Mt Vernon man is recovering in a St Louis hospital after an accident on Interstate 57.

WATERLOO a ' The Joyce Meyer Ministries did too little to prevent its security manager, Christopher Coleman, from alledgedly murdering his wife and two sons, according to an addition filed Monday to a wrongful-death lawsuit.

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, IL - President Obama may be unknowingly putting an end to a caboose controversy near Columbia, Illinois.

Five years ago, Sandy Steppig noticed a tremor in her left foot. No big deal. Except it didn't go away.

Just when you think you know all there is to know about scrapbooking, a pumpkin comes along.

Five men from Cahokia, Columbia and Chester face federal charges of plotting to manufacture methamphetamine.

Two Belleville residents were hospitalized Wednesday after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car at Imbs Station and Wagner roads near Columbia.

An educator who graduated from Jersey Community High School 25 years ago will be the district's next superintendent.