A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish is suing a Chicago restaurant.

An Illinois trucker who authorities blame for a chain-reaction accident on a Missouri freeway near St. Louis has avoided prison time.

The president of Bradley University says she is opposed to the idea of lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 years old as proposed by the Amethyst Initiative.

A judge in Missouri has handed down a five-year suspended prison sentence for an Illinois trucker blamed for a chain-reaction accident. Investigators say Edmond Contestabile Junior of Collinsville clipped a car last October on Interstate 270, setting off related crashes that left numerous injuries and snarled traffic for hours.

There's a new commander of Scott Air Force Base's 375th Airlift Wing.