Meredith Howard
Service Reporter | Belleville News-DemocratMeredith Howard is a service journalist with the Belleville News-Democrat. She is a Baylor University graduate and has previously freelanced with the Illinois Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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The Illinois Department of Transportation has accepted pothole claims for at least the past 40 years for damage caused to vehicles on state highways. -
The latest Illinois Report Card provides information about schools across southwestern Illinois. Here’s how metro-east high schools fared in the 2022-23 report. -
Hundreds of black carp have been reported in the Mississippi River basin, and the invasive fish harm the local ecosystem by threatening important native species. -
The International Union for Conservation of Nature considers the Francois' langur an endangered species. -
Temperatures may drop to the mid-30s Friday night into Saturday morning. -
July’s floods affected about 700 homes to some extent region wide — and residents filed more than 14,000 requests in the first four weeks after the flood. -
NASA says the August meteor shower known as Perseids typically brings “one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky.”
