St Clair County News

The county is in the process of mailing about 140,000 tax bills that will collect more than $330 million from local property owners.

For Kimberly Brink of Sorento, earning her degree in nursing is a "dream come true," made possible through a training program aimed at helping laid off or low-income residents in Madison and Bond counties.

Patricia Keeley, D-Belleville, is giving up her seat to accept an associate judgeship with the 20th Judicial Circuit, which includes St.

The man who kidnapped the three girls in Ohio should be hung and left to die. However, I don't understand how they can charge him with murder because he forced abortions on the girls.

Most Lindenwood graduates are getting their first degree from the university and some graduates are the first from their families to attend college, Enyart said.

Lindenwood University could give Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert and St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern lessons on how to manage money.

What: The 12th annual Art on the Square, ranked the No. 2 art show in the nation , features 105 artists from all over the world, who will display and sell their work.

The mother of an 18-year-old Belleville West student killed in a car crash earlier this year faces charges related to the crash.

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department explored the idea as a convenience for inmates' families and as a way to make the prison safer.

A 27-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a car chase and crash that killed a Caseyville teen in Fairmont City in April.

They are waiting in the grass, weeds, and the trees. Waiting for people and their pets to walk by so they can hitch a ride and steal a meal.

A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a State Trooper squad car. It happened just before 1:30 AM Tuesday morning.

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - Hundreds of jobs and a new sports complex are coming to the Metro East.

A Belleville company has started construction of a $5.1 million office addition to keep its growing employee base under one roof.

McLean, of Belleville, said he wants to devote more time to his family as well as growing his insurance business.

An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man involving a different student.

The family of Amari Clark, a 12-year-old girl killed in a car crash in April 2011, will be presented with an honorary eighth grade diploma during Whiteside Middle School's eighth grade graduation ceremony at 7 p.m. Friday.

Authorities say a carnival truck driver whose convoy was stopped on a southwestern Illinois highway was killed when an Illinois State Police sport utility vehicle struck him.

Jeffrey M. Jones, 25, was charged by the St. Clair County State's Attorney with one count of robbery in connection with a hold up the Farmers and Merchants Bank at 108 W. St.

The St. Clair County State's Attorneys Office has charged Dorian M. McGlown, 26, with one count of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse, one count of Criminal Sexual Abuse and one count of Unlawful Restraint.