Cottage Hills 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.

Each Thanksgiving Day, an all-volunteer staff comes to the Community Hope Center to cook, serve and deliver a free Thanksgiving dinner to the Alton area's shut-ins. This year's dinner will be cooked Thanksgiving morning, Nov.

An 18-year-old Cottage Hills man was charged Friday with offenses relating to a motor vehicle.

A man arrested on felony marijuana charges at the same address twice this year was charged Thursday with unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.

Serving as warehouse director at the Community Hope Center in Cottage Hills gives Meadowbrook resident Floyd Worthen a glimpse of religious unity.

Kathleen Diane Goode Hawkins, 54, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at her home.

Two teenagers face burglary charges and a third is charged with reckless conduct following a disturbance in Cottage Hills, authorities said.

European fur trappers roamed the River Bend some 200 years ago, and re-enactors show that life by the Illinois River.

One of three suspects in the shooting death of a man in the Mississippi River city of Alton has admitted his role in exchange for the minimum sentence.

The driver of a car that crashed into an embankment and tree in August, killing a Cottage Hills teenager, is facing indictments on charges of reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence.

Brandon C. McBride, 23, of the 800 block of Tennyson Avenue, Wood River, was charged Monday in Madison County Circuit Court with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, both felonies.

The School Board has agreed to fix an ongoing drainage problem at the Bethalto School District's Transportation and Maintenance Department, the former site of the Cottage Hills Elementary School.

Two 13-year-old runaway girls escaped injury early Monday when the van one of them was driving eluded Alton police at high speeds, then finally left a Jersey County highway and rolled over.

Mark S. Kuni, 31, and Jacky D. Forgy, 30, both of the 1400 block of First Street, Cottage Hills, were charged Friday with two counts each of possession of a controlled substance.

Branden J. Gilliam, 17, of the 800 block of Gold Street, Alton, was charged Wednesday with aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of weapons.

A once-popular restaurant has closed without warning, saddening customers who had frequented the establishment for the past three decades.

A jury Wednesday watched a recording of a four-hour police interview in which murder suspect Frank D. Price got down on the floor and cried but had trouble explaining how a 5-year-old boy in his care lay dying while he failed to call for help.

A Cottage Hills woman was charged Wednesday with aggravated battery to a child. Toni R. Rudd, 29, of 1323 Eighth St., was charged with the felony after the grandmother of a 12-year-old child reported Rudd's alleged abuse to authorities, Madison County Sheriff's Capt.

Metro-east authorities have investigated two deaths this week -- one involving a Cottage Hills teen who died Wednesday after a single-vehicle crash in Alton and a Red Bud bicyclist who was killed Monday afternoon after he was struck by a car in front of the Monroe County Courthouse.

Michael Hapgood, 17, of Cottage Hills was fatally injured in a single-vehicle crash in Alton shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday.