Area residents, state and local leaders paused Monday to pay tribute, in a grand way, to one of their own -- 2008 Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper. It seemed everything and everybody in the city Monday were all about celebrating the city's latest Olympic gold medalist.

The film Highland High's football team watched on the morning of Sept. 6 wasn't rated R or NC-17, but it should have included this warning:

Belleville firefighter Joe Ellison takes most days one step at a time, but sometimes it's two or three when he's running up the stairs of Monk's Mound near Collinsville.

In the year of Sarah Palin and "Sex and the City," perhaps it's no surprise that an event honoring women drew some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

From hot-button issues in the newspaper to the fermented beer in the fridge, Americans are surrounded by science all the time. The St. Louis Science Center is launching a festival this week to help people better understand, and enjoy, the ways that science plays a role in everyday lives.

Boy, Rick Casey must have done something to get on the wrong side of Caseyville officials and the Democrats.