Creve Coeur News

It was just an ordinary Flag Day for Phillip and Beverly Smallwood. They began their day by putting up flags in their yard...one of them the American flag to honor our country.

The former owner of a custom motorcycle shop that went bankrupt has pleaded guilty to mail fraud.

An 8-year-old has drowned in a backyard pool in suburban St. Louis during a party to celebrate the end of second grade.

Philanthropist and builder I.E. Millstone is missing, family members say, and authorities were investigating whether he was a man seen jumping from a Missouri River bridge.

A McLean truck driver, indicted for a fatal accident a year ago in which a Creve Coeur teenager was killed, was found guilty Friday.

Aldermen at the Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday, May 11 decried a crime and traffic study of towns near casinos conducted by the Park Ridge Police Dept.

Sean A. Poore, 30, of 809 Highview St., Creve Coeur, was arrested about 11:40 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of West Antoinette Street and booked on charges of possessing a controlled substance and possessing drug paraphernalia.

Second-graders from Miss Poff's class at LaSalle School in Creve Coeur wrote down what their mom would like for Mother's Day.

A bench trial was held Friday for a McLean truck driver indicted for a fatal accident a year ago which left a Creve Coeur teenager dead.

What do you do about dog-on-dog crime? That's a new conundrum facing the Peoria Park District with its new dog parks.

WMBD/WYZZ - Peoria - Unemployment numbers for the city of Peoria have risen to their highest level in over 20 years, but there was hope Wednesday for many local residents suffering in this bad economy.

Lindy Franca used to have a waiting list of parents who wanted to put their children into the day care center she owns in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visits Eureka College, the site of Reagan's Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty speech in 1982.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be in Eureka and Peoria on Friday for Eureka College's Ronald Reagan Day and the Creve Coeur Club's George Washington banquet.

Everything, it seems, is related in this village's political structure. Of the four candidates running for mayor on April 7, three already have been mayor.

Department of Conservation police continue to search for a man who jumped into Pekin Lake after a traffic stop early Sunday morning.

He's well known in the world of geothermal exploration in Alaska, but Thursday former Peorian Bernie Karl was talking to seventh- and eighth-graders in the St.

Keith and Karen Kinsey wanted to transform bad news to good after a brutal beating and carjacking left Karen Kinsey with a broken nose and the scare of her life in December 2007.

The cause of a fire Saturday night at Tommy House Tire Co., in which five area departments responded, remains under investigation.

Tracy McNaught knows the numbers. For every 25 dogs and cats brought into a shelter, just eight are adopted out or go home.