Swansea News

People who are looking to head to Fair St. Louis is downtown St. Louis may want to take Metro.

For hundreds of visitors to St. Clair Square on Saturday, their trip to the mall became far more than a way to escape the sweltering heat outside or to scoop up summer bargains.

It's a place where golf and grilling go hand in hand. Big pieces of meat are "par for the course" at Big Mama's BBQ, especially since it's situated on the Clinton Hill Public Golf course in Swansea.

Not once has Megan Brandt felt the tightening economy's pinch in the six years she has washed, brushed and clipped canines.

Sandy and Chris Knee already were bursting with pride, knowing their 10-year-old daughter, Kelsey, had a speaking part in The Muny production of "Annie." Then they opened the program to find her name at the top of the cast list.

A 53-year-old woman died Tuesday morning after a collision near the intersection of North Belt West and Illinois 161.

A 23-year-old Cedar Rapids woman has died after a motorcycle she was riding on hit a deer.

Thelma the tortoise is back at home in Swansea after 18 days of freedom. Joseph Ponder of Belleville was walking to a convenience store on Saturday when he spotted the 30-pound African leopard tortoise.

A Swansea woman cooling off from the summer heat was found dead in a friend's swimming pool Friday afternoon in Shiloh.

A Swansea woman was killed Sunday morning after her car suddenly swerved from the road and struck a tree.

A Fairview Heights, Ill. man is dead following a motorcycle accident Thursday morning.

Preschool students at the Presbyterian Community Preschool in Belleville had the chance to climb around on some pretty big toys Friday morning.

A Fairview Heights man died after his motorcycle crashed about 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Llewellyn Road, just west of the intersection with Frank Scott Parkway.

This is STAR as in Sales Tax Anticipated Revenue bonds, and it's a plan only big developers and pocketed or ill-informed legislators could love.

Four days after legislators authorized a lucrative sales tax incentive sought by developers for a proposed $1 billion retail and entertainment center, the project remains mired in controversy.

Robert "Bo" Hill will always be sorry he ignored his parents' advice to learn a musical instrument.

It's nice to have choices. Which is why I'm happy to let readers know that anyone who attends local community markets on Saturday mornings now has another time and place to do their shopping: Beginning Thursday, and running every week through Oct.

Jimmy John's opened last week on the southwest corner of East Main and High streets in downtown Belleville.

A vote could come as soon as today on a controversial incentive package designed to enable construction of a billion-dollar entertainment and retail center in Glen Carbon.

If you need a nail, hammer, garden rake or door hinge, you go to the store and buy one that likely was mass-produced in a factory miles away, perhaps overseas.