Madison County News

WORDEN/STAUNTON -- Madison County Transit plans to dedicate a new extension of the Quercus Grove Trail.

Investigators believe they know how a bulldozer got onto railroad tracks last year before being rammed by a train.

Two brothers were charged Wednesday with burglarizing a Moro church last year. Terry W. Homer Jr., 23, of rural Hillview, and Rylan M. Homer, 18, of the 1100 block of Walnut Drive in Cottage Hills, were charged in Madison County Circuit Court.

The economic recession gripping the nation has dealt a one-two punch to St. Clair, Madison and Monroe counties' efforts to meet a federal mandate to upgrade their flood protection levees to the 500-year standard.

Police will seek charges today against two men arrested in connection with the death of a 44-year-old Fairmont City man, whose body was found Tuesday wrapped in a rug in a heavily weeded area near 29th Street and Morris Avenue.

A 74-year-old city man who was found dead outside of Marian Heights apartments early Wednesday and drew the attention of area media apparently died of natural causes.

Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville is asking a judge to force the developer of a stalled lodge and conference center project to pay for the site's cleanup.

Demolition of the old sheltered care home owned by Madison County is expected to begin in the next few days.

A Glen Carbon woman who allegedly showed nude photographs of herself to two boys should have to register as a sex offender, says the mother of one of the boys.

On a day when Madison County was exposed for its poor air quality, a refinery in the county promoted the economic impact of its $3.6 billion expansion project, which will mean reduced emissions, officials said.

Three Collinsville people are facing felony charges after they allegedly robbed a service station at gunpoint early Tuesday.

Consultants say a $3.6 billion expansion of a southwestern Illinois refinery could be an economic boon for the region.

A former southwestern Illinois alderman and longtime barber was killed when his car was hit by a Madison County transit bus.

There's plenty of concern in the Metro East after results of an Environmental Protection Agency study was made public.

The heat is being blamed for the death of a 61-year-old Glen Carbon woman, Madison County Coroner Stephen P. Nonn said Wednesday.

The levels of 80 cancer-causing substances released by automobiles, factories and other sources in these areas exceed a 100 in 1 million cancer risk.

Police in Granite City are investigating an fatal accident involving a Madison County Transit bus.

The Madison County Health Department says a mosquito batch collected in Godfrey on June 19 has been confirmed as the first mosquito pool in Madison County to test positive for the West Nile Virus.

An man has died following a crash involving a Madison County Transit bus. The Granite City Police Department responded to the intersection of Illinois Highway 203 and Venice Avenue at 7:30 this morning where a bus and car had collided.

A 21-year-old southern Illinois man was arrested on Father's Day after allegedly putting his 2-year-old son in a clothes dryer and burning him on the cheek with a cigarette.