A St. Louis man has admitted to spray painting racial threats and epithets on a home in Collinsville in an attempt to intimidate and frighten the victims into moving out of the area.
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The art of the news photo: The Belleville News-Democrat is presenting an exhibition of news photographs as part of its 150th anniversary celebration.
Photos including the St. Peter Cathedral fire in 1911, the campaign stop by JFK in 1960 and current images by the newspaper’s photojournalists are currently on exhibit through Aug. 8 at the Governor French Academy Arts Center at 223 W. Main St., Belleville, Ill. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
What area restaurant makes your favorite pizza? Who was your favorite teacher? Weigh in on those topics and more by voting in the News-Democrat's annual Readers Choice Awards.
The Belleville News-Democrat, 150 years old this year, is marking the occasion with a book, "150 Years, 150 Headlines," chronicling hallmark events in the metro-east in the last century and a half. Watch this video to see how you can get your copy of the book.
— Online Editor Joe Ostermeier
Online Producer Carla Anderson
