Cottage Hills News

Identified as a problem plaguing the River Bend, an agency hopes to raise awareness about the difficulty of detecting human trafficking and suggest ways to help victims break the cycle of enslavement.

The Nature Institute executive director Kevin Bennett has been working with RiverBend Head Start to incorporate a vegetable and native plant garden near Head Start's outdoor playground area.

The spring garage sale held for the last 30-plus years at the Ursuline Convent has become a familiar event that sisters and residents look forward to for many reasons.

Checking local police reports provided this morning to Z-1570, two men from Alton have been charged for allegedly damaging property at the Woodlands Golf Course.

Two people suffered injuries, one serious, in a three-vehicle traffic crash at the intersection of Illinois Route 143 and Stanley Road during the weekend.

COTTAGE HILLS, IL - An Illinois woman is charged with cooking methamphetamine at a Cottage Hills home.

MADISON COUNTY, Illinois A Metro East woman is accused of operating a methamphetamine lab inside a house with three children inside.

Checking local police reports provided this morning to Z-1570, East Alton Police were holding 55 year old David Cox of Cottage Hills on an outstanding warrant and possession of drug paraphernalia.