Wood River News

Firefighters battled a stubborn blaze in the basement of a three-story house Friday night, but the homeowner escaped injury.

Reanda K. Preston, 17, of the 100 block of Rue Des Chateaux, Bethalto, and Jeffrey J. Davison, 18, of the 400 block of McCoy Street, Bethalto, were charged Wednesday with residential burglary.

The Wood River Women's Club is setting its sights on making a difference in children's lives and is asking the public to help.

A cemetery owner has been given until Wednesday to present a plan to clean up his property, although improvements already have begun.

A Bethalto woman and federal prosecutors reached an agreement Wednesday calling for her to serve 10 years in prison for providing drugs to a man who died of an overdose more than year after he had given the FBI information about former Madison County lawyer L. Thomas Lakin.

The YWCA of Alton announced Friday that Susan Lyndaker Lindsey will be the organization's new executive director.

In what would be a major project along Homer Adams Parkway, a hotel chain owner wants to demolish part of a closed motel, renovate what remains and build an addition.

The Madison County Health Department has received a limited supply of the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine and will hold a free walk-in clinic today for a specific population of people.

An emergency boil order notice has been issued for all water customers who live on the east side of Lakin Boulevard in Wood River.

The swine flu vaccine is available this morning in Madison County Illinois. There is a limited supply of the H-1-N-1 vaccine.

Aldermen suspended rules Wednesday night to give Alton's necessary approval of the expansion of the River Bend Enterprise Zone farther east in Wood River.

Hawthorne Street at Illinois 111 in Roxana will close at 5:30 p.m. Friday for reconstruction work.

Two teenagers face burglary charges and a third is charged with reckless conduct following a disturbance in Cottage Hills, authorities said.

Three St. Louisans were charged Friday with burglary in connection with a vehicle break-in on the parking lot of East Alton-Wood River High School a day earlier.

Police are investigating a stolen vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday morning.

An Alton doctor whose medical license has been suspended pleaded Tuesday morning to two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Police quickly took a man into custody and recovered a Wood River woman's purse after the man allegedly stole it while riding next to her on a Madison County Transit bus Thursday.

Authorities are investigating a crash on Friday morning that injured the driver of a vehicle that drove under a tanker truck loaded with diesel fuel.

No matter their heritage, hundreds of people enjoyed the food, music and wares Sunday at the second annual Italian-Croatian Fall Festival in Downtown Wood River.

Brandon C. McBride, 23, of the 800 block of Tennyson Avenue, Wood River, was charged Monday in Madison County Circuit Court with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, both felonies.