South Roxana News

Charges filed Friday against a South Roxana man accuse him of sexually abusing and assaulting at least one of his own children.

Surviving are three sons and daughters-in-law, Richard and Margaret Stearns of Jacksonville, Ill., Dale and Jan Stearns of Dorsey, and Norman and Sharon Stearns of Glenmore, Pa.; two daughters and two sons-in-law, Marilyn Eggers of Houston, Texas, Nancy and Larry Thompson of South Roxana, Robert Sullivan of South Roxana; 17 grandchildren; and 14 ... (more)

She worked as a cook at Dick and Barbs Restaurant in Bethalto and was an avid dart player and cake baker.

A Madison County deputy coroner processes buckets of dirt through a sift that was set up over the bucket of a tractor this week outside the maintenance garage at Wanda Cemetery in South Roxana.

Dale Neudecker, who chairs the Bucket Brigade, co-sponsored by Pride Inc., The Telegraph and Sherwin Williams Paint, said the 25th anniversary of the program means a lot to him.