Alton News

Clarinetist David Miller and pianist Charlotte Heeren will perform "Miller Does Mozart and More" followed by pianist Colleen Johnson performing works by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Jacoby Arts Center, 627 East Broadway in Alton.

The former band director at Alton High School has pleaded guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old student.

An Alton High School band teacher pleaded guilty today to having sex with a 16-year-old female student.

A mature American bald eagle soars over the yellow cables of the Clark Bridge in Alton this week.

Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Tracy Bridges of Alton as the new county clerk for Oregon County.

Ozark County News Dec. 16, 1897 Marion Kirkland, the miller of lower Lick Creek, was in town mingling with the boys Saturday.

It took less than a day for splashed water from the Mississippi River in West Alton, Mo., to build an ice sculpture on weed branches across the river from Alton.

A great blue heron takes flight Wednesday from near the shoulder of Missouri Route 94 just outside of West Alton, Mo., while floodwaters still closed the highway to traffic.

A 33-year-old Alton man was killed Friday night in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 67 near West Alton, Mo.

License offices in Alton and Thayer are among the last group of licenses to go out for bid for management contracts, according to the Missouri Department of Revenue.

License offices in Alton and Thayer are among the last group of licenses to go out for bid for management contracts, according to the Missouri Department of Revenue.

License offices in Alton and Thayer are among the last group of licenses to go out for bid for management contracts, according to the Missouri Department of Revenue.

A St. Louis area woman suffered serious injuries Friday night when her motorcycle crashed in Oregon County, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Joseph A. Curtis, 29, of Alton, Mo. is suspected of robbing a residence on Highway 28 in Osage County on Monday, July 20.