Fairview Heights News

A 77-year-old Fairmont City man was sentenced today to 30 years' imprisonment for distribution of methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

A critic of a mixed-used retail project off Frank Scott Parkway is seeking $5 million in damages from developer SSM Contractors Inc.

Jenn Jarrett was an emotional eater. When she was sad, she ate. When she was happy, she ate.

Q. We have a small, decorative pond and it is turning green. This is not what we expected when we put it in last year.

Jessie James Hogan's speech was slurred and his eyes were bloodshot, a Fairview Heights police officer wrote, during a routine traffic stop of Hogan's tan Cadillac Eldorado last month.

Nine Executive Drive, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208, Telephone 628-3700 A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on June 19, 2008, JOSEPH DIEKEMPER, ...

The curtain has gone up on this year's Muny season at Forest Park in St. Louis. On a recent daytime visit, we found these six performers from the metro-east rehearsing.

Those of you who flip your lids when able-bodied drivers park in handicap parking, keep reading.

When people need blood they go to the Red Cross. But where do dogs go when they need a transfusion? In the FOX Files, Paul Schankman shows us a place where volunteer dogs give a little of themselves and get a ...

The Carlyle Yacht Club held radio-controlled sailboat races on June 29 in Longacre Park in Fairview Heights.

Saucy Cajun Shrimp calls for plenty of napkins and plenty of bread for dipping. Q: On a recent visit to a newly discovered restaurant, Lotawata Creek in Fairview Heights, we had a wonderful snack, "Cajun ...

About a dozen campers and counselors sat at picnic tables painting and admiring each other's brightly-colored pictures during the arts and crafts activity at Camp Roehr one day last week.

The City Council has given the go-ahead to Mayor Gail Mitchell to use eminent domain to acquire land from an apartment complex for a traffic light at the new Target store, which is scheduled to open June 27.

Metro has reported serving nearly 5.5 million passenger trips in May - believed to be the highest one-month tally since the early 1980s.

A registration blitz and T-Shirt Pickup for the 10th Annual Susan G. Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure will be held at St.

If you asked any one of the 15 incoming first through third grade students what they did this week during Illini Elementary School's Safety Town program, they'd say they had a lot of fun and saw some cool ...

With the sweet smell of barbecued cockroaches wafting through the air, "Chef" Dave Gracer, chopsticks in hand, poked around at a scorpion deep-frying in a pot of canola oil.

Tim Mizell went for a jog Monday afternoon - a jog that helped raise money for Special Olympics Illinois.

Despite reports of several possible tornadoes in the Metro East area, local police departments were reporting no damage as of Friday afternoon.

Pastor Randy Loeschen from Sterling Baptist Church preaches from a Tiki Hut to promote Vacation Bible School: Outrigger Island.