Wood River News

Wood River, IL - A family that has a son with epilepsy wants to help other children with epilepsy go to camp.

Consultants are working with the city to study how Alton parks are being used, and to plan their futures, particularly the now-closed Robert P. Wadlow Municipal Golf Course.

Ron and Trisha Ford of Roxana celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on May 9, 2012.

Pictured, from left, are Mississippi Valley Christian School students Kaitlyn Allen, Makilah Alexander and Dana Zimmerman.

Checking local police reports provided this morning to Z-1570, the Madison County Sheriff's Department arrested 47 year old Diana Ray of the 2200 block of Richmond in Granite City for DUI-alcohol. 25 year old Kerry Grant of the 500 block of Colonial in Wood River for aggravated battery.

"It's like giving a company car to Bill Gates or Warren Buffett," he said, asserting that Madison County officials' salaries make them some of the top earners in the county.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued current and past owners of Phillips 66's Wood River, Illinois, refinery on Tuesday, alleging the ground water in the nearby town of Roxana, Illinois, was contaminated by the plant.

Friends and neighbors Dennis McKinney, left, and Eric Evans, 19, both of Wood River, enjoy a conversation about computer apps Saturday during the first meeting of the River Bend Deaf Chapter at the Eagles Lodge in Alton.

Rose to Jill Sauls, a longtime teacher in the Wood River-Hartford Elementary School District, for being named McKendree University's 2012 Teacher and Mentor of the Year.

Volume risk is mitigated by the project's dominant position in the PADDIV region to import Canadian crude oil into the U.S., and its low contract and uncommitted tariff rates that make it price competitive.

A former YMCA camp counselor will get probation in separate cases accusing him of inappropriately touching two young girls.

Donald and Judith Price, Sr., will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with a family dinner at Andria's Countryside Restaurant.

A southwestern Illinois man is jailed on $250,000 bond after authorities accused him of battering his 5-month-old son.

Ilse McClintock of Wood River places the U.S. flag on the grave of her late husband Tuesday in Roselawn Memory Gardens cemetery in Bethalto.

A convicted sex offender from Wood River has received a maximum term of 10 years in prison after he fled to Colorado last year with a 15-year-old Jerseyville girl.

By JESS CHARLTON For The Telegraph Jeremy "Chillie" Chinchilla is a 21-year-old looking to make a name for himself in the tattooing industry.

The City of Wood River will close a railroad crossing to make way for high speed rail.

State workers from the metro-east averaged $61,372 last year. Topping the payroll were three Illinois Department of Human Services doctors and Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, all passing the $200,000 mark.

Three area women spent the weekend in jail and were charged Monday with unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

Police investigate the scene at The Ashford House Restaurant, 7959 W. 159th Street, in Tinley Park, IL where allegedly a group of people entered and started assaulting patrons Saturday, May 19, 2012.