Alorton News

Homeless veteran Jimi Orange returned to an abandoned shed on Bond Avenue in Centreville with a plate of leftovers and a bucket of tri-flavored popcorn for his girlfriend.

Traffic was moving again Friday afternoon on westbound Illinois 15 near Interstate 255 after crews removed a farm combine that had fallen off a flatbed truck.

A man who tried to run following a head-on crash in the Metro East was taken into police custody.

You can get your food in a hurry at City Limits BBQ. Just know that the new restaurant inside the Flying J Travel Plaza slow-cooks its rotisserie chicken, smokes racks of ribs and pork for hours, and rolls out dough for the peach cobbler by hand.

Danville- A Danville charity plans to give away hundreds of Thanksgiving dinners for families in need.

A former volunteer Alorton fire captain convicted of a federal drug charge is back in the St.

A new barbecue restaurant has moved into the Flying J Travel Plaza, at the intersection of Illinois 15 and Interstate 255 in Alorton.

The East St. Louis Financial Advisory Authority on Monday afternoon unanimously rejected a city plan to lay off 11 firefighters and keep two spots vacant.

A nighttime convergence of an airplane, helicopter, police officers and dogs last weekend failed to round up four Alorton carjacking suspects in the West 19th Street area of Alton.

St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl Justus met with staff Tuesday to discuss possible changes in policy and procedure of handling inmates after police mistakenly released a man who posed as another detainee.

Give St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl Justus credit for not making any excuses for the guard who let a prisoner fool him into releasing him.

A search is under way for an inmate who managed to trick his way out of a southwestern Illinois jail.

If it can be proven that contractual obligations exist between the Alorton Village Board and School District 189, St.

Washington Park officials didn't have much choice when they filed bankruptcy this month for the second time in less than five years.

Washington Park officials didn't have much choice when they filed bankruptcy this month for the second time in less than five years.

Ten new police officers will be added to four metro-east police departments as a result of the Department of Justice's $1 billion in grants to fund the hiring or rehiring or law enforcement officials at agencies nationwide.

Belleville Police responded to a robbery in progress at the home of a slain police officer Tuesday night.

Hundreds of police officers, black bands over their shields, came Saturday to this small Metro East city to remember police Lt.

Champaign- The deals are out there and you don't have to go too far to find them.

East Central Illinois organizations use their share of stimulus money to put young people to work.