Belleville News

Belleville School District 201 is offering a $200 reward to finding who is responsible for scrawling a bomb threat on one of the lockers at Belleville East High School.

A single-vehicle accident on Illinois 161 in Mascoutah killed two people early Saturday.

A representative from the U.S. Department of Education will be in Belleville Monday to recognize Ellis Elementary School as the only school in Southern Illinois to be named a 2008 No Child Left Behind Blue ...

A benefit was held in St. Clair county Saturday for a woman who suffered a fractured skull in an attack.

Belleville City Council members Monday night will again try to forge an agreement with Stookey Township that will allow Allsup Inc.

As long as motorists, cyclists and pedestrians pay a little bit attention, they should finally be able to make sense of downtown Belleville's Public Square.

Firefighters worked for more than eight hours to extinguish a house fire at 722 W. Lincoln St.

Rain fell lightly as friends and family members remembered Ja'Mel A. Bryant as a man who loved children, family, music and his country.

Seven people were injured Tuesday morning in an accident that involved two minivans on Illinois 159 in front of the Schnucks Swansea Plaza.

A man from rural Granite City was charged Tuesday with the beating and rape of a woman found in May at Horseshoe Lake State Park.

A Belleville, Illinois school recieved a special honor Monday. Ellis Elementary was selected as a 2008 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Eduation.

A man charged last month with strangling an O'Fallon man was a suspect eight months before in the beating death of a woman in Fairmont City.

The funeral is Tuesday for Belleville soldier killed in Iraq. Private First Class Ja'mel Bryant, 22, was killed last month in a vehicle accident near Baghdad.

Bicyclists will be a little safer in Belleville, thanks to a lighting project under way.

Belleville Police Department DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Timothy R. Venhaus, 23, of the 100 block of South Main Street in Waterloo, was arrested Sept.

A Belleville man was charged after allegedly crawling through the ceiling into a locked Laundromat office and stealing cash.

St. Clair Prosecutors have filed charges against an East St. Louis man in connection to an armed robbery in Belleville, Illinois.

After pushing Belleville East's last home football game back to a Saturday afternoon, Belleville High School District 201 leaders have worked out a scheduling conflict with East's marching band so members could ...

Drivers will soon get a warning that bikes might cross their paths on East Main and B streets in Belleville.

The Belleville Main Street Association's new executive director said she loves the city and can't wait to help its burgeoning downtown grow.