Lenzburg News

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on November 23, 2009, JAMES G. HUMPHRIES, age 36, of Broughton, GEORGE F. SHANKS, III, age 39, of Fayetteville, and CHRISTIAN L. BROUSSARD, age 36, and DANIEL D. ROBERTSON, age 44, both of Lenzburg, pled guilty to a one-count indictment, charging ...

Margie Politsch baked cupcakes and brewed a fresh pot of coffee Monday for friends who sat in the chairs set up along the sidewalk in front of her house on South Main Street.

The first piece of a new generator under construction at the Prairie State Energy Campus in rural Washington County will arrive Monday and travel through the area at 1 mph.

The Lenzburg mayor is planning an emergency town hall meeting Thursday to address the movement of a generator for the Prairie State Energy Plant through town next week.

A Lenzburg woman was killed on her way to work Monday morning when a pickup truck crossed the center line of Illinois 13 near Freeburg and struck her car head-on. Frances S. Koon, 65, was driving a 2002 Kia Sephia north on Illinois 13 south of Red Ray Mine Road near Freeburg when a 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck driven by Nicholas Wilson, 19, of ...

A 19-year-old man is accused of driving under the influence during a wreck that killed an oncoming motorist and injured three other people in southwestern Illinois.

More than 40 area police and sheriff's departments will join almost 16,000 communities nationwide today in observing the 26th annual National Night Out, a big variety of local anti-crime gatherings.

LIBORY SWANSEA * 304 Harvest; from Judy Adams and Walter Adams; to Derek Hartman and Carla Hartman; $150,000. * 1203 N. Second St.; from Steven Elliott and Stacy Elliott; to David Ratliff and Paula Ratliff; $60,000. MADISON COUNTY ALTON * 1010 Phinney Ave.; from Riverbend Property Ventures LLC; to Vanessa Ammons; $59,500. * 1102 Douglas; from Anita ...