Madison County employee Jim Corey of Edwardsville waves at one of the many "honking" cars supporting strikers. He works for the assessor's office.
The long anticipated strike by 447 American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 799 union members started today as workers and county officials failed to reach an agreement.
Vincent Andrzejewski filed suit Jan. 31 against Sandra LaMantia and the defunct restaurant and sporting venue, Inside Out 12, because he broke his arm after the plastic chair he was sitting on collapsed.
A trial date for Michael O'Brien, an Illinoisan suffering from mesothelioma, has been set exactly a year after the former sheet metal and postal worker was diagnosed with a deadly disease caused by asbestos exposure.
Earl Gori of Madison County and Michael Elward of Wabash County, Ind. are the newest members of a growing class of litigants seeking damages from Merck & Co. over the company's marketing of the recently recalled pain reliever, Vioxx.
We thought Hollywood Michael Moore voted in California! MCR scoop photographer Skip Schmidt snapped this look-alike, voter-to-be at the Glen Carbon Firehouse this afternoon.
While shopping for landscaping stones at Ace Hardware in Bethalto on April 2, James Kannall, of Edwardsville, says one of the stones fell off the display onto his hand and fingers, severely and permanently injuring him.
I was disappointed when I saw how you presented the chart called "Illinois Doctors Pay More" in which you compared a number of states in the Midwest who had malpractice caps with Illinois.