A few local municipalities are defined by phenomena from testicles and cereal to rubber ducks and baby food.

Now it’s Fauls who says he needs help getting the damage to his own home repaired in the wake of that blast, and he says he feels betrayed by his insurance company.

Judge Cotton Walker on Monday awarded Ferguson $43.8 million. A Cole County jury s ided with Ferguson in November when he sued Travelers Insurance to collect the rest of his nearly $11 million ...