Brighton News

Employees of the burned-down Riverbend Billiards and Grill Inc. want to come back to work so much they are volunteering to get its new location ready to open at 5 p.m. Friday.

Piper Holland, 7, of Brighton, plays amid stone beasts Sunday at Gordon Moore park in Alton.

Joshua Schildrath of Godfrey and Audrey Rogers of Jerseyville are the parents of a daughter, Emma Breanna Schildroth, born October 27, 2009 at Jersey Community Hospital.A A She weighed 6 lbs., 12 oz.

Eerie court jesters, giraffes and goblins of all shapes and sizes lined the parade route Saturday night at the 89th Annual Alton Halloween Parade.

Here are trick-or-treat times in local communities: Alton: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at houses with exterior lights on Bethalto: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Halloween curfew in effect through Oct.

Local hero Terry Buhs was shocked when he learned he would be the grand marshal for Alton's 93rd annual Halloween Parade as it winds along Broadway the night of Oct.

" October 7, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today commended U.S. Cellular for bringing improved cellular phone service to the people of Macoupin County.

Denis Ridgeway makes people's dreams come true - at least for an hour or so. Ridgeway became a certified stage hypnotherapist and took it down a comedic path.

No matter their heritage, hundreds of people enjoyed the food, music and wares Sunday at the second annual Italian-Croatian Fall Festival in Downtown Wood River.

A local 4-H group this week marks the roots that defined what it became 60 years later.

The parents of Emily Dee Autery are announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter to Jason Paul Thatcher.

A pair of teens from Brighton, Illinois were involved in a single vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon.

Rosemary Hand of Brighton never will forget the day that Dr. Moustafa "Mo" Naguib helped her with his generosity.

The third annual Senior Olympics is coming to Jerseyville on Saturday and will include five Southern Illinois nursing homes.

The Macoupin County Board chairman has ordered the county's highway engineer to report back on what can be done to alleviate severe flooding in the 900 block of North Market Street in Brighton.

A Brighton man says he never will forget seeing a little girl floating in a lake, and in turn Monday, the Marine Corps League remembered him with an award for saving the child's life.

Sentencing of a Murrayville teen for having sex with an underage girl has been delayed so the judge can determine with whom he will live and what his employment prospects would be if he were placed on probation.

Brighton teenager Lexy Schafer hopped for joy when her rabbit trio made her a grand champion.

Dennis K. Prough, 70, died at 8:05 a.m. Monday, July 20, 2009, at his home. He was born June 27, 1939, in Jersey County, son of Richard and Aglenda Prough.

Treehouse Wildlife Center, long a home for injured and orphaned wildlife, needs a new home of its own.