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updated: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:11 pm

Fairview Heights News

Local news for Fairview Heights, IL continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

13 hrs ago | Belleville News

Fairmont City man, 77, sentenced to 30 years for distributing meth

A 77-year-old Fairmont City man was sentenced today to 30 years' imprisonment for distribution of methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

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Related Topix: Fairmont City, IL, East St. Louis, IL, St. Louis, MO Metro

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Belleville News

Woman accused of libel has filed a counter-claim

A critic of a mixed-used retail project off Frank Scott Parkway is seeking $5 million in damages from developer SSM Contractors Inc.

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Related Topix: St Clair County, IL

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Belleville News

Closing in on 100-pound weight loss: Jenn heads in a healthy direction

Jenn Jarrett was an emotional eater. When she was sad, she ate. When she was happy, she ate.

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Related Topix: Belleville, IL

Sun Jul 13, 2008

Belleville News

Plants can help clear up pea soup-green ponds

Q. We have a small, decorative pond and it is turning green. This is not what we expected when we put it in last year.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home

Fri Jul 11, 2008

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Man arrested 13th time for drunk driving

Jessie James Hogan's speech was slurred and his eyes were bloodshot, a Fairview Heights police officer wrote, during a routine traffic stop of Hogan's tan Cadillac Eldorado last month.

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Related Topix: Belleville, IL, St. Louis, MO Metro, State Prisons

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Illinois Residents Indicted on Fraud Charges

Nine Executive Drive, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208, Telephone 628-3700 A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on June 19, 2008, JOSEPH DIEKEMPER, ...

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Related Topix: Carlyle, IL, East St. Louis, IL, Agriculture, Science, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Belleville News

You'll see several familiar faces at the Muny

The curtain has gone up on this year's Muny season at Forest Park in St. Louis. On a recent daytime visit, we found these six performers from the metro-east rehearsing.

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Related Topix: East St. Louis, IL, Swansea, IL, O'Fallon, IL

Sat Jul 05, 2008

STLtoday

Sting nabs able-bodied parking cheats

Those of you who flip your lids when able-bodied drivers park in handicap parking, keep reading.

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Related Topix: Springfield, IL, Springfield Metro, Opinion

Thu Jul 03, 2008

MyFox St. Louis

FOX Files - Dog Blood Bank

When people need blood they go to the Red Cross. But where do dogs go when they need a transfusion? In the FOX Files, Paul Schankman shows us a place where volunteer dogs give a little of themselves and get a ...

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Tue Jul 01, 2008

Belleville News

Carlyle Yacht Club races radio-controlled sailboats at Longacre Park

The Carlyle Yacht Club held radio-controlled sailboat races on June 29 in Longacre Park in Fairview Heights.

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Wed Jun 25, 2008

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Louisiana favorites are highlighted at Lotawata grill

Saucy Cajun Shrimp calls for plenty of napkins and plenty of bread for dipping. Q: On a recent visit to a newly discovered restaurant, Lotawata Creek in Fairview Heights, we had a wonderful snack, "Cajun ...

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Related Topix: Life, Bar-B-Q, Dining, Meat, Chicken

Mon Jun 23, 2008

Belleville.com

Camp Roehr gives young epileptics a summer to remember

About a dozen campers and counselors sat at picnic tables painting and admiring each other's brightly-colored pictures during the arts and crafts activity at Camp Roehr one day last week.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Swansea, IL, Epilepsy, Health

Sat Jun 21, 2008

STLtoday

Eminent domain OK'd for traffic light

The City Council has given the go-ahead to Mayor Gail Mitchell to use eminent domain to acquire land from an apartment complex for a traffic light at the new Target store, which is scheduled to open June 27.

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Thu Jun 19, 2008

STLtoday

Crowds flock to Metro's trains, buses

Metro has reported serving nearly 5.5 million passenger trips in May - believed to be the highest one-month tally since the early 1980s.

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Related Topix: St. Louis, MO Metro, Belleville, IL

Wed Jun 18, 2008

Belleville News

Register for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure at St. Clair Square this weekend

A registration blitz and T-Shirt Pickup for the 10th Annual Susan G. Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure will be held at St.

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Related Topix: St. Louis, MO Metro

Mon Jun 16, 2008

Belleville News

Illini Elementary kids take a trip to Safety Town

If you asked any one of the 15 incoming first through third grade students what they did this week during Illini Elementary School's Safety Town program, they'd say they had a lot of fun and saw some cool ...

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Sat Jun 14, 2008

Sun-Journal

The other white meat

With the sweet smell of barbecued cockroaches wafting through the air, "Chef" Dave Gracer, chopsticks in hand, poked around at a scorpion deep-frying in a pot of canola oil.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science

Thu Jun 12, 2008

Wentzville Journal

Area police departments participate in torch run

Tim Mizell went for a jog Monday afternoon - a jog that helped raise money for Special Olympics Illinois.

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Related Topix: Granite City, IL, Swansea, IL, O'Fallon, IL, Belleville, IL, Glen Carbon, IL

Tue Jun 10, 2008

North County Journal

Severe weather hits area

Despite reports of several possible tornadoes in the Metro East area, local police departments were reporting no damage as of Friday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Weather, Millstadt, IL, Caseyville, IL, Maryville, IL, O'Fallon, IL

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Belleville News

'Vacation Bible School: Outrigger Island' comes to Fairview

Pastor Randy Loeschen from Sterling Baptist Church preaches from a Tiki Hut to promote Vacation Bible School: Outrigger Island.

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