Alton News

The Alton Symphony Orchestra's "Holiday Concert" is back again this season to entertain audiences with familiar favorites and dazzle them with new delights.

People who post comments on a newspaper website are not news sources whose confidentiality is protected by the Illinois "shield law," a prosecutor argued to a judge Wednesday.

An Alton man was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of burglary for allegedly breaking into cars.

A 26-year-old East Alton man is facing obstruction charges following a traffic crash early Tuesday.

A former Madison County prosecutor faces misdemeanor domestic battery charges after police arrested her during a scuffle with her girlfriend on Monday night.

IF YOU GO: WHAT: Job fair WHEN: 8:30 until 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2 WHERE: Oakwood Estates Community Center, 849 Oakwood Road in Alton.

City officials are planning a flood memorial plaza that would commemorate major Mississippi River floods.

A new Alton plaza commemorating disastrous floods and the Confluence Tower in Hartford are two metro-east projects funded by the federal government this year.

The federal government is awarding the city of Alton a $200,000 Scenic Byway grant to create a Flood Memorial Plaza in Downtown Alton to commemorate devastating Mississippi River waters of the past.

Police have recovered a knife blade and handle and several pieces of crack cocaine paraphernalia from a home at 1201 Fourth St., Alton, that was the scene of a fatal stabbing Nov.

A Godfrey man is facing five felony charges after he allegedly drove while intoxicated Sunday, crashed into a parked car and led police on a chase through mid-Alton. On Monday, the Madison County State's ...

A woman facing charges in the stabbing death of an Alton man last week once again is causing confusion and distress for her aunt, as the suspect has used her aunt's name over the years.

25, 1958, in Alton, Ill. EXPERIENCE-Chosen by President-elect Barack Obama as chair, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Nov.

East Alton native Tommy Karlas has a single on Montgomery-Gentry's new CD that is rising like a rocket.

The holiday season kicked into high gear Friday night during the annual Tree of Lights tree-lighting ceremony.

Robert Watson was indicted Friday for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm, US Attorney Catherine Hanaway said.

An Alton woman has been arrested in the overnight stabbing death of a 43-year-old Alton man.

"Geography of Alton." 30 March 2008. HowStuffWorks.com. 20 November 2008. Alton, Illinois, a city in Madison County.

Thanksgiving is still a week away, but in order for the light displays to be up and ready someone's got to be working.

Four teenagers are facing felony burglary charges following a weekend crime spree at area businesses.