Collinsville News

Al Holliday is a 25-year-old, white, Collinsville, Illinois-bred pianist and singer who makes his debut with twelve original songs on Made It Through the Mill, Again .

Lexi Norton scored two goals and Allison Pritchard and Katelyn Schneider scored one apiece Friday as the Edwardsville Tigers blasted Quincy 4-0 to win the Class 3A Edwardsville Regional soccer championship.

A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually molesting boys in his family.

Police are searching for men who stole a pair of large-screen televisions early Friday from the Wal-Mart store in Collinsville.

The new member, Karen Woolard, was elected to in April fill the position of Councilwoman Joyce Biegert.

Outlook: "I'm the only attorney with an address in town. ... And we'll be the only one that I know of with a drive up." When B. Marshall Hilmes found that a former bank building was up for sale, he knew he found what he had been looking for.

But they've got a lot left on their plates in the final three weeks of the spring session, which is scheduled to adjourn May 31.

Earl and Anita Johnson could have sold her mother's home and pocketed the profit, but they wanted to give something to the troops.

Andrew L. Spillari, 25, of 609 N. Keebler Ave., was charged with robbery, theft from a person and theft-subsequent, according to the Fairview Heights Police Department.

Police were called to the Walgreens in the 6500 block of N. Illinois around 3 a.m. Thursday for a report of a robbery.

At 4:41 a.m. Thursday, a man entered the Walgreens drug store on Belt Line Road and simply reached across the counter, grabbing cash out of a register drawer that was open for a transaction.

A Walgreens store in Fairview Heights was robbed early Thursday and by 10:15 a.m., the suspect was caught in Collinsville.

The St. Clair County Board will consider approving new board members to replace Carl A. Gomez and Willie McIntosh at tonight's meeting.

"When you look precinct by precinct, you see the impact that John Hartman had," Gill told me last week.

A new shopping center under construction on Central Park Drive in O'Fallon will house a Mexican restaurant, an eye wear retail store and a Subway.

The big hill off Lebanon Road east of Collinsville is actually a pile of decades-old garbage decomposing in a long-closed landfill.

First United Presbyterian Church is one of Collinsville's oldest churches and one of the most important in the city's history.

The Mensa kindergartner: Boy genius, five, with IQ score of 147 knows entire periodic table, studies Japanese and could read at two Gus Dorman looks like an average 5-year-old, but with an IQ of 147, there is nothing average about one of the youngest members of the exclusive Mensa club.

Earl and Anita Johnson could have sold her mother's home and pocketed the profit, but they wanted to give something to the troops.

The deadline for buying the tickets is Wednesday. Prices are $160 for a table of eight, or $20 each and can be obtained by calling 463-6850. All major credit cards are accepted with an additional $1 handling fee.