Latest local news, weather and high school sports for Tri-State area

Wednesday, April 17, 2013  USDA makes 2nd attempt with livestock ID system meant to help control spread of animal disease

Tuesday, January 01, 2013  Fees are going up for operators of Illinois public swimming pools for the first time in almost 40 years.

Friday, October 05, 2012  Illinois health officials say a steroid medication suspected of causing an outbreak of a deadly form of meningitis was shipped to a pain clinic with six locations in the Chicago area.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012  Federal food program that screens produce for contamination spared until end of 2012

Saturday, July 14, 2012  The Illinois school code has changed for the 2012-2013 school year, 6th and 9th graders are required to have the pertussis vaccine.

Monday, April 16, 2012  Early, dire warnings credited with limiting human death toll in Midwest tornado outbreak

Friday, December 30, 2011  While we have all been surprised at the warm weather we are currently seeing in the region, all we have to do is look back one year to find that Mother Nature sometimes pays little attention to the calendar.

Monday, November 07, 2011  State health investigators have focused on Schnucks markets because most of the people who got sick reported recently eating from salad bars in at least five stores in the St. Louis region. But the health department says that no food samples tested have had E. coli.

Thursday, September 22, 2011  2 illnesses in Mo. linked to tainted cantaloupe.

Thursday, January 20, 2011  US deports 27 Haitians convicted of crimes, the first group since last year's quake.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010  Dozens of illnesses being linked to alfalfa sprouts.

Friday, October 22, 2010  Update with video: The outbreak in the rural Artibonite region, which hosts thousands of quake refugees, appeared to confirm fears about sanitation

Friday, October 22, 2010  State health officials say they have traced a widespread salmonella outbreak at Subway restaurants to a food distributor based in Lincoln.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010  The owner of an Iowa egg farm, at the heart of a massive recall, plans to appear before a congressional committee.

Thursday, August 26, 2010  The Iowa farms whose eggs have been recalled in a Salmonella outbreak aren't saying yet what will become of their hens, but it's possible they'll wind up becoming meat for soup or other products.