Longtime City Treasurer Charlotte Moore retired Tuesday and said she is ready to settle into her new digs in the St. Clair County Board of Review office.

A Madison County grand jury on Thursday will begin hearing the results of an investigation into the shootings of a civilian and an off-duty St. Louis police officer at a Pontoon Beach bar.

When Steven Souchek gets ready to address the golf ball as he stands on a tee, there is probably just one thought, one word, that pops into his mind.

Despite the tough economy, traditional gold coins have appeared once again this year in the metro-east Salvation Army kettles.

U.S. automakers are returning to Congress for high-stakes hearings they hope will persuade skeptical lawmakers to save their troubled industry with $34 billion in emergency aid, but a top Senate Democrat wants to hand their problem to the Federal Reserve. Poll: Do automakers deserve a bailout?

A job candidate has to be pretty stupid, or pretty something, to take a drug test when he knows he isn't going to pass it. Yet between February and November, 60 people offered jobs with DCFS or one of the private social service agencies it contracts with took and failed a drug test. That's 2 percent of candidates.