A stylist with 20 years of experience is back with a new salon and a new attitude.

Less than a year ago, Miranda Wreath was signed up to go into the U.S. Navy, a vocation to which she had aspired all of her life.

Approximately $1.5 million was raised by the Southwest Illinois Division of United Way of Greater St.

Bethalto's premier custom embroidery shop is going into 2010 with a new name, new ownership and a new passion for the art of custom design.

Members of the Alton VFW Post 1308 Honor Guard post the colors Monday at a veterans' celebration held in the gymnasium at Parkside Elementary School in Bethalto.

A fire that started in a basement and burned through the first floor of a house on Wednesday in the 300 block of Wyoming Street is under investigation.

Three World War II veterans from The Telegraph area had special experiences in a recent Illinois Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. The three are Cal Ennis of Alton, and William Klokkenga and Bernard "Bern" Keeney, both of Bethalto.

Joshua Schildrath of Godfrey and Audrey Rogers of Jerseyville are the parents of a daughter, Emma Breanna Schildroth, born October 27, 2009 at Jersey Community Hospital.A A She weighed 6 lbs., 12 oz.

In celebration of Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial birthday year, the Great Rivers Choral Society and talented area children will present "Whiskers and Songs: How Mr.

Reanda K. Preston, 17, of the 100 block of Rue Des Chateaux, Bethalto, and Jeffrey J. Davison, 18, of the 400 block of McCoy Street, Bethalto, were charged Wednesday with residential burglary.

Here are trick-or-treat times in local communities: Alton: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at houses with exterior lights on Bethalto: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Halloween curfew in effect through Oct.

Caden Hestin, dressed up as a pirate, rode in a small boat Wednesday night during the 67th annual Bethalto Halloween Parade, sponsored by the Bethalto Rotary Club.

A Bethalto woman and federal prosecutors reached an agreement Wednesday calling for her to serve 10 years in prison for providing drugs to a man who died of an overdose more than year after he had given the FBI information about former Madison County lawyer L. Thomas Lakin.

Sentencing will be early next year for a southwestern Illinois woman who admits selling drugs to a man who later overdosed on them.

A 25-year-old Bethalto woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal drug charge for selling methadone to an Alton man who died after overdosing on it.

The Bethalto School Board approved a tentative tax levy for the 2010-2011 school year and set the date for a public truth-in-taxation hearing on the proposed levy.

A Bethalto woman and federal prosecutors reached an agreement Wednesday calling for her to serve 10 years in prison for providing drugs to a man who died of an overdose more than year after he had given the FBI information about former Madison County lawyer L. Thomas Lakin.

Volunteers from area trades unions are revisiting history by going back to a park organized labor built in the late 1970s, this time replacing aged dugout roofs.

Art was everywhere Sunday afternoon as local artists showcased their work throughout Madison County during the 12th annual ARTEAST tour.

More than 200 people showed up for a Meet the Challengers 2010 candidate's forum Saturday sponsored by the Bethalto group of the Riverbend 9-12 Project.