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Alleged abduction in Highland a hoax, say police
HIGHLAND, Il. (KMOX) – A 52 year old woman has confessed to police that her story of a carjacking and abduction wasn’t true. Highland, Illinois Police Sgt. Eric Steinbeck says for several hours she had...
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Man Dies After Tree Falls On Him
HIGHLAND, Ill. (KMOX) – The Madison County man who had a tree fall on him while he was cutting it down with his son, has died. Captain Brad Wells says 75-year-old Christian Bargetzi was on a tractor...
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Lambert Set For A Busy Day
Sunday for many in St. Louis was a celebration of Easter. For others, it was working overtime patching up the damage from Friday night’s tornado. It turned out to be the area’s most powerful tornado...
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Child Dead, 3 Others Injured In Mobile Home Fire
PIERRON, Ill. (KMOX) - A blaze that broke out late Tuesday night left a young boy dead and his mother and two siblings seriously injured. Officials with the Highland-Pierron Fire Protection District...
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Organ Company Undergoes Changes after a Century
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) - One hundred years ago, three brothers — a watchmaker, a cabinetmaker and a jeweler by trade — banded together to build a business from music, creating and servicing organs...
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UPDATE: Planned Parenthood Questions Angela Michael’s Tactics
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)– A Highland, Illinois mother of 13 known for her protests outside a Granite City abortion clinic announces she’s running for Congress as a Democrat on the abortion issue. Retired...
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Two Men Drown In Highland, Ill. Lake
HIGHLAND, Ill. (KMOX) - Two Troy, Illinois men have drowned on an overnight fishing trip in the Metro-East. The Madison County coroner’s office says the bodies of 26-year-old David Foss and 22-year-old...
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Metro East Man Killed In Northern Illinois Accident
PAW PAW, Ill. (AP) – A Highland Illinois man is dead after being struck by a truck while doing road work on Interstate 39 in northern Illinois. The Rockford Register Star reports that 55-year-old...
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Local Company Develops Meth-Proof Pseudoephedrine
(KMOX)-There’s new hope for fighting the scourge of methamphetamine and it comes from a Maryland Heights-based pharmaceutical company. Highland Pharmaceuticals has developed a form of the drug, that...
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Monday Night Gunbattle Claims Second Teen Victim
ST. LOUIS (KMOX)-Last week’s gunplay on Highland Avenue in St. Louis has claimed another young life. Police say that 18-year-old Aniya Cook died Friday evening, of a gunshot wound to the face suffered...
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Highland Native Gets K.C. Call-up
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas City Royals purchased the contract of top pitching prospect Jake Odorizzi (Highland, Ill. H.S.) from Triple-A Omaha on Sunday and will start him next weekend against...
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“No Texting Behind The Wheel” Message Driven Home In Metro East
HIGHLAND, Ill. (KMOX) - It was like “Scared Straight: Driver’s Ed Edition” Thursday inside a high school classroom in Highland Illinois. Students paid rapt attention for more than an hour — a small...
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Woman Gets 16 Years for 3 Metro-East Robberies
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A judge in East St. Louis has sentenced a 32-year-old woman to 16 years in federal prison for robbing three branches of “The Cash Store.” Prosecutors say Chrice Shunta Combs...
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Group Of Illinois Religious Leaders Lobbies For Gay Marriage
HIGHLAND, IL (KMOX) - Same-sex marriage will soon become law in Illinois if a group of church leaders have their way. More than 200 pastors and rabbis are calling for lawmakers to approve legislation...
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Woman Says She Shot Intruder To Save Sister
HIGHLAND, Mo. (AP) - A Metro East woman says she shot and critically wounded an intruder because she thought he would kill her sister. Debi Keeney shot a 33-year-old man early Sunday at her sister’s...
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Martial Arts Instructor Charged with Sexual Exploitation of a Child
HIGHLAND, IL. (KMOX) - He earned high praise from the parents of his students, but now a metro east martial arts instructor is accused of videotaping himself having sex with children under the age of...
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Highland Couple Fight, One Kicks Deputy
TROY, IL. (KMOX) – Police say a couple from Highland Illinois who are about to be married were fighting on a parking lot in Troy and when Deputies arrived one of them kicked an officer. It happened in...
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Hometown Remembers Illinois Marine Killed in Blast
HIGHLAND, Ill. (KMOX) – One of seven Marines killed in a mortar blast Monday night during a training exercise at a western Nevada weapons depot was from Highland, relatives said Wednesday. Aaron J....
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Services Set for Illinois Marine Killed in Blast
HIGHLAND, Ill. (AP) - Services are scheduled in southwestern Illinois for one of seven Marines killed in an explosion during a training exercise in Nevada. A funeral Mass for 26-year-old Cpl. Aaron...
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Volunteers Needed to Put Out Flags in Honor of Highland Marine
HIGHLAND, Ill. (KMOX) — “Hope for Heroes” is asking for volunteers to put out 2,200 flags on Easter Sunday for the Highland Marine killed in a training accident in Nevada. Corporal Aaron Ripperda was...
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