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EDWARDSVILLE - With the November 8 General Election approaching and early voting just a month away, Madison County Clerk’s Office says it has been inundated with FOIA requests for voting records. Madison County Clerk, Debbie Ming-Mendoza, is issuing this statement to the public with information regarding access to voting records. Mendoza stated: “It is my utmost responsibility as the Chief Election Officer of Madison County to maintain the highest integrity of voting records. All election results are available to the general public on the County Clerk’s website following the canvass of the ballots cast. Results from primary elections do show how primary voters tend to vote by party identification.” The voting system Madison County uses is an optical scan system. It has proven to be very accurate in counting the proper number of votes for individual candidates, as well as, referendum ballot questions. The system does not track who votes for who or what issue.

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Following a protest from the Prince estate, a judge has ruled that an energy drink cannot trademark the name "Purple Rain." Billboard reports a judge said Bang Energy could not trademark…

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Parson recently called a Nov. 8 recreational marijuana ballot measure a “disaster.”

Police and school officials investigated reports of a bomb Thursday and reports of an airsoft gun Wednesday at St. James High School.

From the late summer of 1980 to the fall of 1981, organized crime families were at war and mob violence shook our city.

A St. Louis County jury has determined Bayer and the former Monsanto should not be held liable in a lawsuit over the weed killer product Roundup.

BETHALTO - A Bethalto man was charged today in Madison County Circuit Court with three counts of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm and one count of Aggravated Battery With a Firearm. The man is Thomas A. Bowers, 67, of the 700 block of South Moreland in the Kickapoo Village Trailer Park in Bethalto. Bethalto Police Chief Mike Dixon said charges stem from the police response and investigation into two separate 911 calls received at 12 p.m. on August 31, 2022, reporting a man shooting a gun inside Kickapoo Village Trailer Park, 750 South Moreland Road, Bethalto. "The first caller reported her neighbor had just shot a gun into her home, which was also occupied by her 10-old-daughter and fiancé," the chief said. "The second 911 caller was a family member of the manager of Kickapoo Village who reported the manager had been shot while mowing grass in the park. "Officers from the Bethalto Police Department, Madison County Sheriff’s Office, as well as the East Alton, Woo

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A school bus from the Ladue School District was involved in a crash with at least one other vehicle Thursday afternoon in Olivette.

President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time speech on the "Soul of the Nation" Thursday in Philadelphia.

A piece of wall from The Ed Sullivan Show's set, signed by all four Beatles members when they made their historic first appearance on the program on February 9, 1964,…

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A man faces criminal charges after a shooting at a Metro East trailer park Wednesday afternoon.

by Tom Finan, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Construction Forum Yesterday (Sept. 1) Rich Ledbetter became the CEO of Guarantee Electrical, a national $300M, 1,000 employee organization that traces its history to the 1904 World’s Fair. He succeeds CEO Rick Oertli, whose grandfather, Fred Oertli, Sr.,  joined the company in 1926 as a laborer. When Fred […]

Co-owners John Curtis and Doug Morgan plan to expand the new cocktail bar and listening lounge concept to include a food component, with experienced chef KT Ayers at the helm.

It’s been three years since Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner asked a St. Louis circuit judge to set aside the 1995 murder conviction of Lamar Johnson. It was the first exoneration case …

STL – a juried art exhibit. See how local artists flaunt their pride of the monuments, hidden jewels, shops, nature or underbelly of St. Louis.

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