Riverton News

The "evil stepmom" advances many a movie plot. But when The State Journal-Register invited readers to write in about stepmoms who shatter the myth, the response proved overwhelmingly positive.

Final results are still pending. That's what election authorities are saying in Sangamon County.

Emergency crews are called to Riverside Park for a late night water rescue. The call came in around 8:30 Tuesday night that two teenage boys needed help because they were stuck in the floodwater's. The teens tell police they were fishing in Riverton when their engine died and they were floating down the Sangamon River near Sherman.

A missing Riverton woman's family says more needs to be done to find her. 44-year-old Michelle Bianco has been missing for a year.

A new emergency alert system is getting families ready for storms. Clear Lake Township recently signed up for the program.

Springfield aldermen have approved funding for the city to buy a gravel pit in Clear Lake Township.

North America's cradle of civilization can be traced 3,800 years back to the lower Illinois River valley.

Sangamon County assistant state's attorney Sheryl Essenburg, who has made a career of prosecuting sex offenders, had something this week that she rarely gets: An eyewitness.

Sangamon County sheriff's investigators have arrested one man in connection with an early morning homicide at mobile home park east of Springfield.

Clear Lake Township officials are hiding motion-activated cameras along some roads east of Springfield to combat the growing problem of illegally dumped trash, or fly dumping.

James "Jeb" Brown Age: 30 Occupation: Works at several local family businesses, including Riverton's Party Store, and is a promoter for local bands and the Old 36 Inn Family: Married, 2-year-old son Reason for running: "After going to a year's worth of board meetings, I think we can bring a little more leadership and a little more transparency for ...

For the first time in nearly 35 years, Joe Rusciolelli won't be asking village residents for their vote in the April election.

The streets of downtown Springfield were flooded in a sea of green for Saturday's St.

Aldermen agreed last month to spend $875,000 to buy land and a gravel pond in Clear Lake Township for use as a backup water supply.

Two area coaches and one former area player were among the honorees at the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame dinner on Saturday in Lisle.

Southern rock show set Southern rockers Heartsfield will play a show with Ragged Jack at 9 p.m. Saturday at City Nights Theater in the Capital City Bar & Grill, 3149 S. Dirksen Parkway.

Firefighters worked nearly four hours today to free a man who had become trapped in a grain silo outside of Chatham.

Allen Wehrmann, the head of the Center for Groundwater Science at the Illinois State Water Survey in Champaign, recently told Illinois Times that he's not convinced that gravel pits, including the $875,000 ...

The projected numbers for Thursday are brutal, even for Springfield in the middle of January: a high of 6 degrees and a low of minus 5. The bottom begins to drop out today, with the National Weather Service ...

Over the objections of Riverton officials, the Springfield City Council tonight voted 6-4 to buy a Riverton-area gravel pit.