New Douglas News

Traffic around the metro-east Tuesday: In Worden road construction has reduced northbound Interstate 55 to one lane between Illinois 4/exit 33 and New Douglas/Nichols/exit 37 in Livingston.

A Chicago lawyer was charged Wednesday with five felonies for allegedly assaulting a woman while driving his car on Interstate 55.

Thunderstorm watches are being issued again in portions of Illinois today, after a series of tornadoes caused widespread damage and minor injuries yesterday.

Federal investigators returned to the New Douglas area in Madison County today to continue their search for the cause of single-engine plane crash that killed the pilot Friday afternoon.

The pilot who was killed when his plan crashed near New Douglas on Friday has been identified as 57-year-old Thomas J. O'Grady of Ankorage, Ala., according to information released by the Madison County ...

Madison County officials are hoping later today to identify a pilot who died after a plane crashed Friday near New Douglas.

Investigators are searching for clues at the site of a fatal plane crash in south-central Illinois.

The Madison County Sheriff's Department confirms a single engine experimental plane crashed Friday afternoon in northeast Madison County Illinois near New Douglas.

“We do not have the funds at this time, but we anticipate we will. I feel fully confident that we can come up with a bid by the seventh of April -- a contract -- that HACSM can fully fund.”

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Highland and a Christian organization that helps the needy are working to reduce projected costs of building a larger service center after bids came in about $100,000 more than expected.

Rather than seek new architectural drawings and new bids, Highland City Council is working with low-bidder Korte & Luitjohan Contractors Inc. in Highland to cut costs for Highland Area Christian Service Ministry's new center. Eight firms bid on the project. Korte & Luitjohan submitted the lowest, at $451,000. Read more

“This is not just a matter of a tax increase; it's more of an investment in our schools and our community”

The heated races for presidential nominations may attract the most attention, but Metro East voters will have some local matters to decide in Tuesday's primary election. via STLtoday

“I was canning tomatoes in the shed at our house, and the superintendent called. And when you get the superintendent call in the summer, you kind of wonder, 'Uh-oh, what's going to happen?'”

An area teacher will find out tonight whether she's the best in the state. Deborah Keeven, a third-grade teacher at New Douglas Mid-Elementary School in the Highland School District, is one of eight nominees ... via Alton Telegraph