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An SIUE student was pursued on the bike trail Sunday night, and police are seeking her would-be attacker.

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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing with passion. So on Saturday, O'Fallon Main Street brought a festival downtown for the first time in six years in the form of a barbecue contest called Pork with Passion. Watch the video below.

Walter Berry of Belleville was part of the first assault wave on Iwo Jima, and told his story to us as part of the News-Democrat's award-winning "Our War" series. Berry passed away last week; to read his account of his military service, click here.

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