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Famous-Barr at St. Clair Square even announced that all exterior Christmas lighting decorations and replacement bulbs would be taken off the shelves to conserve energy.

There was no shortage of successful attempts by law enforcement to find it, either.

The thieves got about $158 from the heist.

After turning himself in, he told O’Fallon Police Chief William Morton that he hadn’t eaten in three days.

One accident, “it is said, was caused by too liberal an application of moonshine mixed with gasoline.”

“Although we want the kid’s business, we don’t want to end up being the babysitters for these kids,” one of them said.

“An investigation revealed that vandals had promiscuously strewn large new roofing nails all over the road. “

And 75 years ago, an O’Fallon resident shook hands with the president.

“If the people of O’Fallon wouldn’t have been as great as they are, my job would have been a lot tougher,” he said.

“Thirty years ago young people got married and had the responsibility of children. Today they just have the children.”