Belleville News

St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville will hold a free public presentation next week about managing diabetes.

Where do you draw the line on roadside stands? That is the question that has some people angry with the city of Belleville and Mayor Mark Eckert for the ordinance that bans transient vendors except for nonprofit events and firework stands.

A man threatened an elderly couple with a hammer and robbed them as they entered their home on Wednesday , the St.

City leaders have decided to hold off on trying for what would have been Belleville's 20th tax-increment financing district.

The investigation continues into the motorcycle accident that killed a Smithton man early Wednesday on Illinois 15 near Illinois 159 in Belleville.

The group that turns around run-down homes in the west end of town is getting a boost from some extra volunteers.

A motorcyclist died in a crash on Illinois 161 Friday night, making it the second fatality involving a motorcyclist in the city this week.

Traffic was being diverted around a head-on collision on South Belt West around 12:30 p.m. Thursday as emergency crews worked to clean up the wreckage and attend to the vehicles' occupants.

A Belleville man said he's not a hero, but he helped revive a 14-month-old girl found floating face down in an inflatable pool.

Q. I am looking for information about a charm I found when we tore down my grandmother's house near Baldwin in the 1990s.

Two men have been charged with robbing a McDonald's manager earlier this month. Toni C. Conley Jr., 21, of 5700 Pontiac Drive, Apt.

That brave chicken who lives in Norman Wilke's barn is a mother. A tornado blew the roof off barn and sheared off the walls June 8, but the determined hen didn't leave her nest filled with 16 eggs.

The niece of U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, was arrested on Friday on a federal charge of harboring an illegal immigrant who is a twice-convicted drug felon.

Family, friends and admirers of Sgt. Franklin D. "J.R." Barnett Jr., spoke of the courage, love of life and humor of the soldier at his funeral Monday.

The newly formed McClintock Neighborhood Watch Association in Belleville will hold a public meeting Tuesday to organize several neighborhood watches within the 550-household area.

The state's current budget woes was the main topic at the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Issues and Eggs breakfast Monday morning at Fischer's Restaurant in Belleville.

Carl Plant is driving around town in his perfect-attendance prize -- a white 2008 Pontiac G6 with pin-striping and a black interior.

Thelma the tortoise is back at home in Swansea after 18 days of freedom. Joseph Ponder of Belleville was walking to a convenience store on Saturday when he spotted the 30-pound African leopard tortoise.

A National Guard soldier from Germantown was killed in Afghanistan on Friday when a bomb exploded into a vehicle he was in, the Illinois Army National Guard announced Saturday.

A couple of downtown business owners are feeling a little left out. The city's second annual Metro East Pride Festival will be held from 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday downtown and organizers expect 3,000 to 5,000 people to attend.