Mascoutah News

Patty and Jim Grindstaff plan to open another Jefferson's Restaurant in Mascoutah next spring.

All lanes of westbound Interstate 64 near Mascoutah reopened late Friday night after a truck fire earlier in the day had the highway closed.

Westbound I-64 is shut down in near Rt. 4 in St. Clair County, IL after a tractor-trailer truck caught fire on the highway.

Mascoutah doesn't mind the long odds that accompany a No. 16 seed. The Indians , in the playoffs for the fifth straight season and the first time under rookie head coach Scott Battas, will travel to Rochester to face the top-seeded Rockets at 7 p.m. today in a first-round game of the Class 4A playoffs.

In its 165-year history, the oak barn on the Seibert family farm between Belleville and Mascoutah has seen its share of bad weather.

The Haunted Crack House Project has a final volunteer recruitment session Saturday for the St.

Apparently the Mascoutah Heritage Museum passed muster with the Smithsonian Institute when it hosted the exhibit "Key Ingredients" in 2006 because the museum now has a second traveling exhibit.

Construction of a new $38 million high school in Mascoutah should be ready for students by the 2011-12 school year.

All duck hunters need a good "highball" every once in a while. If you can't hit the high notes, you'd better be able to chuckle.

Althoff vs. Waterloo in Class 2A Mascoutah Regional, 4 p.m. Edwardsville vs. Granite City in Class 3A Granite City Regional, 4 p.m. Prep Volleyball Collinsville at Incarnate Word, 7:15 p.m. Roxana at Metro-East Lutheran, 7 p.m. College Volleyball John A. Logan at Southwestern Illinois, 6:30 p.m. Comments Commenting allows our readers to share ...

There will be a Saturday shootout for the Class AA girls state golf championship, and Sterling's Ember Schuldt is right in the middle of it.

Forget about shades of auburn or blonde. At Danielle Wolfram's Swansea salon, Fringe, it's all about pink hair this month.

The 17th Annual Metro-East Life Chain to oppose the ending of human life through abortion is scheduled for Sunday from 2-3 p.m. in Fairview Heights.

Collinsville will turn into Beale Street North again Saturday night when it hosts its third annual Blues-A-Palooza music festival.

One local airport is really feeling the effects of the struggling airline industry.

A man from Mascoutah died in the head-on crash of two pickups late Friday on Mascoutah Avenue near Keck Road, police said.

A 21-year-old Mascoutah man was killed early Saturday morning in a two-car crash on Mascoutah Avenue.

The loss of MidAmerica St. Louis Airport's only regularly scheduled passenger carrier cut deep into its bottom line, and as a result, the airport suffered a nearly 41 percent loss of revenue in 2008 compared with the year before.

A Haunted Crack House is set to open near Mascoutah, Illinois. It's all part of a program to educate young people about the dangers of drugs in an entertaining and frightening way.

A group of law enforcement officers from the metro-east participated in "Operation Task Force Illinois" to assist with controlling protesters and civil unrest at the G-20 Summit Sept.