Belleville News

Formerly a vice president in the university system and chief operating officer of the Belleville campus, Bladdick was hired in 2009 to oversee the expansion of the Belleville location from a satellite campus to a full-service school.

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

A 33-year-old Belleville man was charged Monday with reckless discharge of a firearm after an explosives device was found in his home.

The ground near the intersection at Frank Scott Parkway East and Cross Street in Shiloh is being prepared for the new hospital.

Hoerner is a partner in the Belleville law firm of Becker, Paulson, Hoerner & Thompson.

About 2,300 residents of the Dupo area remain without power as of 6 a.m. Monday thanks to early morning storms, according to Ameren.

Excel, which is the bottler of Ski and makers of an assortment of other sugar cane-flavored soft drinks, began brewing beer last fall.

Dr. Savoy Brummer, of the Emergency Department Medical Director at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, has received the ED Medical Director of the Year Award from Blue Jay Consulting, the Emergency Medicine Foundation and the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Chris Bell finished less than a car length over Nick Knepper to win his first feature in the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series and Joe B. Miller drove to victory in the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series on Friday at Belle-Clair Speedway.

Earl James' tent at Art on the Square in downtown Belleville was bustling with activity Saturday afternoon as loyal customers purchased new pieces and others marveled over his blown glass creations with decorative imagery cased between the layers of glass.

More than 900,000 wounded veterans are waiting an average of nine months apiece -- in many cases far longer -- for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to process their disability claims.

On a warm spring day, students at Lindenwood University-Belleville took time from studying for finals to play Frisbee in the sunken garden in front of the college at 2600 W. Main St.

Belleville police officers responding to a domestic disturbance early Saturday morning found improvised explosive devices inside a Belleville home in the 300 block of North Fifth Street.

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.

Timothy L. Allen, 31, of 1252 N. 49th St. has been charged with one count of aggrevated vehicular hijacking and one count of aggrevated fleeing and eluding.

Police responded to the 600 block of Sycamore Street just before midnight Wednesday and met with a 28-year-old woman who said a man had grabbed her by the arm, took her to an area between two buildings and placed his hand down her pants.

It was the end of a long day and I was standing at Lambert Airport watching luggage pop out of a hole and slide onto Carousel 6. Nearly everybody's bags were black and nearly everyone had tried to find some way to make his stand out -- from orange bungee cords to hot pink ribbons on handles.

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

Mayor Mark Eckert announced Thursday that he is recommending Hoerner for the city attorney job based in large part on Hoerner's wide experience as an attorney who has represented metro-east towns and school districts, including the village of Cahokia and East St.