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Aerosmith has paid tribute to producer Jack Douglas, who produced four of their multi-Platinum albums.Douglas died Monday at the age of 80. The band took to Instagram Wednesday to remember the producer,…

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EDWARDSVILLE - Closing arguments in the jury trial of Tara Anderson, who is charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses in the shooting death of Phillip Armstrong, are scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Circuit Judge Amy Maher’s third-floor courtroom at the Madison County Criminal Justice Center. The Madison County State's Attorney's Office confirmed on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, that closing arguments will occur on Thursday morning. Anderson, the defendant in case

A popular St. Charles County buffet is back in the spotlight with a sudden admission of guilt from one of the people tied to the business.

A 3-year-old boy is dead, and his father is in custody after the child accidentally shot himself.

Maplewood police identified the victim as Richard Parker, 69, of Rock Hill.

Mötley Crüe has announced a new box set collecting the band's first five albums.The package, dubbed Crücial Crüe, includes 1981's Too Fast for Love, 1983's Shout at the Devil, 1985's Theatre of Pain,…

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ROXANA - Roxana dominated the Cahokia Conference Meet Mississippi Division on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, accumulating 157 points to Freeburg's 147 points at Roxana High School. It had been 57 years since the Shells' last conference title in boys track and field. The Shells were members of the Midwest Conference the last time they won it, Athletic Director Mark Briggs said on Wednesday. Salem was third with 112 points, Columbia fourth with 66 points, Breese Central with 61 points and East Alton-Wood

JERSEYVILLE – After more than a year of debate, Jersey County Board members approved a $364,000 bid to build a new evidence storage facility for the Sheriff’s Department. The board’s 7-5 approval of the proposal from Jun Construction comes just under a month after their previous rejection of the same bid at their last meeting . A Solution Over A Year In The Making Sheriff Nick Manns first notified board members of a leak on the current evidence facility roof on April 22

Neil Young’s 1995 album, Mirror Ball, a collaboration with Pearl Jam, is set to be reissued for the first time in over 30 years.Although the album was part of Young’s…

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Authorities are working to recover a body found Wednesday afternoon in the Mississippi River.

Jordan L. Burns, 27, was accused of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a felony, after leaving a gun accessible to the child, police said.

ALTON - Kennedy Lacey of Alton High School, Lucille Cassenti of Alton High School, and Samuel Caughran of Alton High School were honored as Students of the month for April 2026 at a regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Alton-Godfrey at the Gentelin’s on Broadway Restaurant. Kennedy Lacey is a senior at Alton High School with a 4.16 GPA and consistent placement on the Academic High Honor Roll. As a dual-enrolled student at Lewis & Clark Community College and Saint Louis University,

ALTON — Heaven Everage has been selected as the 2026 Student of the Year by the Rotary Club of Alton-Godfrey. She received a $6,000 scholarship on Monday, May 11, 2026, during the club’s Scholarship Awards Dinner in Alton. Alton High School Assistant Principal Mike Brey introduced Everage at the dinner, where she accepted the scholarship and received a plaque commemorating the award. Alton-Godfrey Rotary Club President Donna Bemis presented the plaque recognizing Everage as Student

GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College welcomed its new Vice President of Finance and Operations last month, as it prepared to wind down the academic year. Area-native Jonathan Lasinski, a 2002 graduate of Alton High School, started in the role on April 20, training with outgoing Vice President Mary Schulte prior to her retirement, April 30. “I'm excited to move back closer to my mother and younger brother's family and to serve in the community I grew up in,”

ALTON - The Alton High School Junior ROTC will share information about how to respectfully fly and retire a U.S. flag at an upcoming event. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2026, at Alton High School, students will explain how to take care of the flag. They will also accept flags that are no longer in use and properly dispose of them. Lexi, a JROTC member, shared that the event is a great way to learn more about the American flag and how to care for it. “This event will be about flying

Republicans have opened up an advantage in a national redistricting battle among states after court rulings that weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities and invalidated a key Democratic redistricting effort. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana as an illegal racial gerrymander has provided grounds [...]

Let’s hope the word “possibly” can be stricken from this headline in the near future. And while contempt charges don’t mean much to an administration that is openly contemptuous of anything that hints at checks or balances, it would, at the very least, encourage other judges to stop treating the Trump DOJ like it’s worthy […]

A bill requiring pornography websites to conduct age checks before granting access is headed to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe. Commercial websites and platforms must already verify that users are at least 18 if more than a third of their content is sexually explicit as part of a rule enforced by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway […]