Glen Carbon News

Wal-Mart supervisors have answered a former employee's retaliatory discharge suit in Madison County Circuit Court.

She is the daughter of Thomas Olen and Sula Cromeenes. She was born June 11, 1926, in Champaign, Ill., and was raised in the Carbondale, Ill., area.

The measure passed in the House but does make some provisional changes to appease Governor Quinn, who originally said he would veto any legislation that included slots at racetracks.

A woman who claims she was illegally videotaped without clothing on at a Glen Carbon tanning salon is seeking in excess of $50,000 in damages from the alleged perpetrator and the business.

Thomas W. Sandhoff Sr., 100, died, Tuesday, May 22, Memorial services at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 27, at Eden Village, 200 South Station Road in Glen Carbon.

Morningstar Spinal Correction Center announced that chiropractor Dr. Andrew L. Morningstar is a graduate of the Spine Research Institute of San Diego's "Whiplash and Brain Injury Traumatology" program.

Village trustees accepted the electrical aggregate rate that is slightly lower than those in three other communities because there are no additional administrative costs.

Who says deaths come in sets of threes? Deaths came by the carload to the local coroner's office this past weekend, and it was only the august work of several investigators that allowed the agency to keep up with it all.

Rose C. Hilla, 87, died Friday, May 11, 2012. Visitation from 4 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, at Irwin Chapel in Glen Carbon.

Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth on May 10 allowed a Texas attorney to participate in a Madison County benzene case.

Rosa Hilla, 87, of 69 S. Main St. in Glen Carbon, died at Anderson Hospital's emergency room on Friday afternoon with the preliminary cause of death being smoke inhalation, according to Madison County Coroner Steve Nonn.

A former southwestern Illinois police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges that accuse him of illegally taking cell phone videos of women at a tanning salon.

Clinton E. Pearman, 82, died Sunday, May 6, 2012. Visitation from 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9, at Irwin Chapel in Glen Carbon, where services will be at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 10.

Jaclyn Burgess, formerly of Jacksonville, and Jon Spindler, formerly of Nashville, Ill., were united in marriage March 24.

Mildred M. Gibbons, 75, passed away 11:05 a.m. on Monday, April 30, 2012, at her home, lovingly surrounded by her children and grandchildren.

She was the daughter of Thomas Olen and Sula Cromeenes. She was born June 11, 1926, in Champaign, Ill., and was raised in the Carbondale, Ill., area.

GLEN CARBON, IL - The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says investigators are working some 'very strong leads' in the hit and run death of 23-year-old Amber Wood.