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The city's top public safety official on Tuesday recounted how a man escaped from the city jail and the fixes underway to prevent future incidents.

WOOD RIVER - For East Alton-Wood River senior Maddie Stone, four years of volleyball have brought friendships and lessons in patience. Now being recognized for volleyball, Stone cited good grades as a quality that contributed to the honor. Stone plays under coach Bethany Hoyland and also participates in basketball and softball. Asked what she enjoys most about volleyball, Stone pointed to the relationships she has built. “I love all the friendships that have come from it,” she said.

O’FALLON — The Looking Glass Prairie Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution donated 337 gently used junior high-level books to the Metro East Literacy Project as part of service efforts marking the organization’s founding and supporting its education mission. The donation included 12 titles for the O’Fallon-based nonprofit, which promotes literacy throughout the Illinois Metro East area. The project provides children and adults with access to books, libraries,

GRANITE CITY — Ameren Illinois crews have begun electric infrastructure upgrades near U.S. Steel in Granite City to reduce power outages and strengthen the local grid, with construction expected to continue through November 2027. The project includes a new switching station near the steel facility, upgrades to two existing substations and installation of a new 69-kilovolt subtransmission line, according to an October 2026 company release. Additional electric line projects are also planned.

The Mayor of Kingstown will come to an end next year. Paramount+ has announced the fifth and final season of the Jeremy Renner crime drama, co-created by Taylor Sheridan and…

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GODFREY - Construction on the next section of the F.E. Widman Bike Trail is scheduled to begin next year, extending the route from just east of Boy Scout Lane to Pierce Lane as development continues in phases. The section, designated as phase three, is currently in the engineering stage. Construction is expected to take approximately five months. The project’s phases are not necessarily being completed in numerical order, with phase three scheduled ahead of phase two. Several portions o

MADISON COUNTY, Ill. - A person was killed after a fiery crash on Interstate 55 Wednesday morning in Edwardsville. According to Illinois State Police, the crash occurred around 6 a.m. on southbound I-55 near the Homestead Rest Area at milepost 28. It involved a semitruck and a business van. Officials said the semitruck was entering [...]

You may have noticed that under corrupt Trumpist courts, if a regulator like the FCC engages in literally anything that threatens corporate power or aids workers, competition, or consumers (say, net neutrality, for example), or even school kids, it’s clearly illegal and a dramatic overreach of regulatory power. If an agency does things like launch […]

A recent performance at DIY venue Roadrunner featured Quintron & Miss Pussycat with support from local rockers Still Animals. The event provided a chance to reflect on the importance of DIY music.

HYANNIS, Neb. — With 19 days until Election Day, Dan Osborn sat across from three skeptical voters in a conference room in this blink-and-you-miss-it rural Nebraska town.  Osborn, a bearded former union leader and Navy veteran, wants to become the first independent U.S. senator from Nebraska since World War II by defeating Republican Sen. Pete […]

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]

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EDWARDSVILLE — The Madison County Recorder’s Office is proud to introduce a new fraud prevention tool designed to protect notaries and the community from the growing threat of notary-related document fraud. The Notary Fraud Alert (NFA) program is a free, easy-to-use service that allows notaries to monitor activity under their name and quickly detect signs of misuse. "As your Recorder, my top priority is preserving the integrity of our public records," said Linda Andreas, Clerk

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department will host its second Fast Track Testing Blitz this Wednesday to allow candidates to complete most of the hiring process in one day.

St. Louis City SC is scheduled to face the Columbus Crew at Energizer Park on Wednesday night for their first chance to win the U.S. Open Cup title.