Mascoutah News

A 21-year-old man who worked part-time as a maintenance worker at Mascoutah Middle School was charged on Friday with six counts of criminal sexual abuse.

The mother of an 18-year-old Belleville West student killed in a car crash earlier this year faces charges related to the crash.

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department explored the idea as a convenience for inmates' families and as a way to make the prison safer.

A Nashville commercial developer may build a sports complex somewhere in Southern Illinois that will include two ice rinks and an aquatic center.

As sequestration went into effect in March, some lawmakers argued that the impact of the cuts would not be as immediate as had been claimed, as they would take place over a matter of years.

Author's note: On Capitol Hill "sequestration" may mean a percentage point or two in lower GDP growth, but beyond the Beltway it is more than an abstract economic concept.

School districts located close to Scott Air Force Base will receive less federal funding as a result of the automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress.

School districts located close to Scott Air Force Base will receive less federal funding as a result of the automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress.

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." -- Mark Twain The third Wednesday of March has been an extra special day for the last 14 years at Trinity Services -Kindness Day.

MASCOUTAH – The U.S. Department of Defense says one of four Air Force members killed in a weekend plane crash in Afghanistan was a pilot who had been stationed at Scott Air Force Base in southwestern Illinois.

Three men who are suspected of breaking into cars in Belleville, Fairview Heights, Freeburg and Mascoutah have been jailed for allegedly using a stolen credit card.