Edwardsville News

Green Thumb award signs have sprouted again in the community, as volunteers cite the beautification efforts of local gardeners.

Two summer school students are facing criminal charges after they allegedly tossed firecrackers onto a pile of bagged towels in an Alton High laundry room Tuesday morning, igniting them.

Mississippi Fireworks Festival festivities Friday delighted families despite the absence of carnival rides at Riverfront Park.

Several fire departments have responded to a structure fire at the CKS Metal Corp.

Longtime photojournalist Eugene Redmond has donated thousands of images documenting decades of important cultural events and people to Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.

Fire destroyed a recycling facility outside Edwardsville Friday afternoon. Workers at CKS Metal Corp.

Southern Illinois University says its review of whether former Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his allies tried to influence student admissions at the school turned up two possible cases.

Aaron A. Newman, 39, of the 100 block of South Roxana Avenue, and Joseph T. Shimchick, 40, of the 100 block of Rose Avenue, both in South Roxana, were charged Thursday with home invasion.

Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville is asking a judge to force the developer of a stalled lodge and conference center project to pay for the site's cleanup.

NEW cwtjoa NEW Abstract Forty-four pregnant women participated in water aerobics 2 times per week for a period of 6 weeks, with each session lasting approximately 45 min.

Logan Eader became ambidextrous out of necessity. Michael Failoni did it because he could.

The Glen-Ed Pantry had something to celebrate this month - the fact that it finally has a permanent home in Edwardsville.

Youngsters can enjoy "A Whole New World" in Lebanon tonight through Sunday when the Looking Glass Playhouse presents "Aladdin Jr." It's the troupe's annual children's production, a bewitching visit to Agrabah, the City of Enchantment, where "every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail." All your favorites will be there in this condensed ...

An Edwardsville father is charged with beating his two year old son and putting him in a clothes dryer! The boy's mother allegedly did nothing to stop it! Police say the married couple lied to sheriff's deputies about the location of the child, then had family members in Kentucky try to pass off another boy as the two year old in question.

An Edwardsville man went to jail on Father's Day on charges that he burned his toddler son on the cheek with a cigarette and put him in a clothes dryer.

Where was this photo taken? Pop's When was this photo taken? 2009 Tell us about how you met this Point artist: We waited at their tour bus after an Underoath show and a nice long conversion with the lot of them.

Nancy Hanson admires people who carefully blueprint their gardens, plant flowers at recommended distances and keep beds meticulously weeded.

An Edwardsville man is one of 12 to be ordained as a deacon on Saturday in the Catholic Diocese of Springfield.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - A Michigan man is suspected of trying to rob an Illinois woman while she was in a car with her three children.

Residents of Liberty Street soon will see the pieces of an oil pipeline rumbling down their small road.