Granite City 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.

Out of more than 350 vehicles that went through Illinois State Police safety checkpoints in the metro east during the holiday weekend, not one driver was cited for driving under the influence.

The weather is raining on local parades, picnics and fireworks displays. The following community events have been rescheduled for Sunday due to weather: * Dupo's Picnic in the Park will take place from noon until 9 p.m. Sunday with the fireworks show at dusk at Community Park.

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

A Metro East boy is hospitalized Monday after he was hit by a car while riding on his skateboard.

Updated at 9:45 p.m. GRANITE CITY -- Austin Christoff, 14, of Granite City, was in serious condition at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center on Monday night after being hit by a car while riding his skateboard shortly before 4:30 p.m. The accident happened in the 2300 block of Cleveland Boulevard, when Austin rode into the street and the ...

A year after the brutal murders of a Sherwood couple in a motel parking lot at a St.

The metro-east unemployment rate reached its highest level for the month of May in more than two decades.

Granite City residents are among the most likely in the nation to contract cancer as a result of breathing toxic air pollution, according to an assessment released Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A jury on Tuesday found a St. Louis man guilty of second-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and armed violence.

A former southwestern Illinois alderman and longtime barber was killed when his car was hit by a Madison County transit bus.

Police in Granite City are investigating an fatal accident involving a Madison County Transit bus.

U.S. Steel Corp., the largest U.S.- based steelmaker by sales, is recalling laid-off workers to restart coke production in Ontario and a blast furnace in Illinois, union spokesmen said.

At the Highland Neighborhood Association yard sale in east Belleville a couple of weeks ago, at least one sale item went home to roost.

Prosecutors issued 21 felony charges Wednesday against six men allegedly involved in a robbery, gunfire, possession of crack cocaine and a two-SUV chase.

Police say a Granite City man was drunk and high when he ran over and killed a man and a pregnant woman.

JUNE 15, 2009 -- Granite City Public Works Director Rick Fancher runs out of the way of a Granite City police car Monday afternoon.

The last metro-east Krieger's Sports Bar standing in the metro-east has closed. According to a sign in the window of the restaurant in Nameoki Commons in Granite City, a new eatery to be known as Sweety Pies is coming soon to take Krieger's place.

Date: June 12, 2009 IL. The announcement, made on Friday, 12 June, 2009 by USW Local 68 president Jeff Evans brought a glimmer of hope into what had been a seemingly hopeless situation for some of the members of Local 68 which represents electrical trades workers at the Granite City facility.

Work is under way on a plan to reopen U.S. Steel's Granite City mill. Dave Dowling, Sub District 2 director for United Steel Workers District 7, said union sources from U.S. Steel Corp.'s corporate offices in Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that the steelmaker is working on plans to restart production at Granite City Works, but no timetable has been ...