Fairview Heights News

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A Glen Carbon woman who allegedly showed nude photographs of herself to two boys should have to register as a sex offender, says the mother of one of the boys.

Driving to work for the past 26 years from his metro-east home to St. Louis each day, Tom Hegger could not help but notice the recent economic expansion on the Illinois side.

Debbie Dulaney's 21-year-old daughter, Bridget, died of cystic fibrosis on June 19, 2008.

Clara Smith has not seen her brother in two weeks, and Monday she filed a missing person report and hopes police will help find him.

Two men have been charged with robbing a McDonald's manager earlier this month. Toni C. Conley Jr., 21, of 5700 Pontiac Drive, Apt.

The 10th annual Fairview Firefighters and Municipal Law Enforcement Recognition Night will be held Wednesday.

The city's Law Enforcement Committee will hear at tonight's meeting a presentation on the mayor's nomination to the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners.

Mayor Gail Mitchell said Friday that politics played a role in the abrupt cancellation of the 22nd annual Midwest Salute to the Arts scheduled for Aug.

A couple of downtown business owners are feeling a little left out. The city's second annual Metro East Pride Festival will be held from 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday downtown and organizers expect 3,000 to 5,000 people to attend.

Community Link in Breese will be left without funding and more than 400 developmentally disabled adults and children will be left without the organization's services if the state cuts funding, its director said Wednesday.

Those planning to attend the Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure in downtown St. Louis Saturday will have access to extended MetroLink service.

A new partnership between St. Louis County Library and the Ritenour School District will deliver books to children this summer via a retired library bookmobile.

Eckert's Inc. in Belleville is among the fortunate few businesses in our nation that hasn't been hurt by the recession.

Fairview Heights police were searching Tuesday for a man who attempted to steal a power tool set, then ran to a waiting vehicle whose driver wound up dragging the pursuing security guard.

Slow business has forced Rally's to close restaurants in Fairview Heights and Edwardsville.

The sad tradition of a strong show of support for an on-duty law enforcement death continued, again, in the St.

Every Monday the Belleville News-Democrat substitutes its signed letters to the editor page with a sound off page in which readers can give their opinions by phone anonymously.

The 22nd annual Midwest Salute to the Arts scheduled for August in Fairview Heights has been canceled, according to the event's Web site.