New Baden News

Family members of a 4-year-old girl who suffered bite wounds on a school bus Friday said the girl's physical wounds are healing but coping with the emotional trauma has been difficult.

The mother of a 4-year-old girl who was reportedly bitten during a 6-mile bus ride home from preschool says she has doubts about Wesclin Community School District's account of the incident.

A four-year-old is recovering from bites her grandmother says she received Friday on the school bus.

A boil order is effective tonight for SLM Water Commission customers who live north of Interstate 64, including residents from New Baden and Trenton.

Don't use the water in the Village of New Baden, Illinois after 10:00 p.m. without boiling it.

The Rev. Joie Boeke had the flu. Feeling chilled, she had moved to a living room chair where the sunlight falls when the telephone beside her rang.

A procession accompanying the body of Staff Sgt. Joshua Melton will course through Clinton County today.

A 20-year-old New Baden man has been released from the hospital and was home resting on Saturday, a day after he lost control of his pickup truck on Illinois 161 and his vehicle plunged into Sportsman's Lake near Mascoutah.

A calm, and thankful, New Baden father watched on a live News-Democrat feed online Friday afternoon as emergency personnel tried to salvage his white pick-up truck from Sportsman's Lake.