Kavahn Mansouri | Belleville News-Democrat
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he is closely watching the southwestern Illinois counties that border Missouri, which have the highest growth of new COVID-19 infections in the country.
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Residents say no changes have been made in the year since a previous lawsuit was filed.
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An internal investigation reviewed by the Illinois State Police and the local NAACP found the officer used restraint. Families of the teen girls disagree.
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The $96 million project will add more than five miles of new track and bike trails to the existing light rail line to connect it to the county-owned airport.
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The findings were backed by the independent review of the Illinois State Police and O’Fallon-Metro East Chapter of the NAACP.
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Chief Chris Locke issued the statement on Facebook a week after the incident and complained that news coverage was inaccurate but has refused to say how.
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The police department says it’s investigating the officer’s use of force but declined to identify the officer.
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The St. Clair County board voted unanimously Monday night to approve a new policy hoped to minimize security risks from future attacks. The new policy adds multi-factor authentication on county accounts and raises requirements on county network passwords.
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“I’ve heard that 20-something years, so seeing is believing,” one resident said.
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The county government hopes to bolster its network security to prevent what happened to neighboring St. Clair County.
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St. Clair County’s website is back online following an alleged ransomware attack that may have given a hacker group several gigabytes of sensitive data.
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Several services provided by St. Clair County via the web were unavailable Wednesday after the county disabled its website out of “an abundance of caution” following a ransomware attack on the county.