Belleville News

Wendell E. Bennett Jr., 21, was charged on Saturday with vehicular invasion and mob action.

Got some time on your hands? I bought a new Smart phone last weekend and the young sales rep who was helping me asked if I wanted him to download some popular games to play.

After stumbling around the wilderness of sports and city halls for seven years, Belleville's born-and-bred Roger Schlueter finally found his niche in Lifestyle in 1981.

Terry Delaney, the city's former police chief, remembers discussions in 2002 of moving the state police crime lab from Fairview Heights to Belleville.

Belleville, IL - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn joined state and local officials for the groundbreaking of a new forensic laboratory for the Illinois State Police in Belleville.

The 77-year-old man who walked away from a Belleville nursing home last month and later died in the cold had wandered off from the facility two times in the days and months prior to his final disappearance, according to an Illinois Public Health Department inspection report released Friday.

John Eichenlaub, of Johnson Properties in Fairview Heights, said that the sandwich chain plans to occupy a space at 3142 Nameoki Road in Granite City.

Network Solutions, which has operated in the Bronze Pointe office complex in Swansea since 2006, will close its doors by the end of next month.

A 30-year-old man was found dead early Thursday of a suspected drug overdose in the bathroom of a Belleville gas station about 14 hours after his wife survived a possible overdose two blocks away in the bathroom of Bethany Place.

One of three defendants accused of carjacking an 85-year-old Belleville woman outside a bingo game, then setting the car ablaze with the woman in the trunk has been found fit to stand trial.

Abraham Lincoln Middle School on Royal Heights Road in Belleville was put on lockdown this week.

Belleville attorney Garrett Reuter on Friday will donate a check to Lindenwood University to help it replace a sculpture stolen a month ago.

SPRINGFIELD The Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs is announcing the reopening its part-time Veterans' Service Office located in Belleville.

But the residents of Belleville had little to celebrate after the legendary British author visited Belleville, Lebanon and Collinsville in 1842.

Schools in the metro-east Tuesday took part in the 2012 Great Central U.S. ShakeOut, an earthquake preparedness drill designed to help save lives in the event of a major quake.

Director of Finance Jamie Maitret said the problem occurred during a switching over of many city phone lines from AT&T to Windstream.

Kathy Weichert hopes Allie can follow in the paw prints of her famous half-brother, Uno, next week at the American Kennel Club's Westminster Dog Show in New York City.

St. Clair County Associate Judge Laninya Cason admits it felt a little weird to be at a candidate forum Saturday coordinated by Tea Party-type groups.

The City Council on Monday tabled a measure that some landlords said would have punished the many good property managers in town for the wrongs of a few bad ones.

Wally Spiers was born January of 1952, in Wellsville, Mo., in the worst blizzard of the season.