Glen Carbon News

This year's closing of the government-run Madison County Sheltered Care Home might have seemed a major setback for the United Congregations of Metro-East, an activist coalition of churches that fought hard to save the home for needy disabled people.

Two Mexican restaurants have come and gone in Collinsville's old Pizza Hut building, but three young brothers are hoping to reverse that trend with La Herradura.

Another set of American heroes from the metro-east is taking the Central Illinois Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

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

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

Mark A. Griffin, 22, of the 100 block of East Penning Avenue, Wood River, was charged Tuesday with three counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

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.

If you like to put away a day's calories while sitting in front of the TV, the Catlow Theater is your kind of night out.

A Glen Carbon woman and her ex-husband were sentenced Friday on federal fraud convictions.

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A 61-year-old Glen Carbon, Illinois woman died in home from heat stroke. Madison County Coroner Stephen Nonn said Catherine Smith was found unresponsive at her home at 1 East 30 Mobile Home Park at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday.

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

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

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - An Army veteran from Illinois bilked the U.S. government by faking paralysis after a car wreck to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq, federal grand jurors allege in indicting the former soldier and his wife.

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

On a brilliant summer day, gardens are at their most splendid, signaling that it's time to stop and smell the roses.

The Post-Dispatch editorializes this morning on the Glen Carbon STAR bond issue.

A judge Thursday sentenced an Edwardsville man to 12 years in prison for making methamphetamine after noting the defendant had three prior felony convictions and was out on probation on one of those convictions when police raided his home July 8, 2007.

As Glen Carbon grows to the east, Interstate 70 will be the dividing line between the village and Troy.

This is STAR as in Sales Tax Anticipated Revenue bonds, and it's a plan only big developers and pocketed or ill-informed legislators could love.