Wood River News

The LakinChapman law firm has moved its offices from Wood River and changed its name to SLChapman, said Robert L. Schmeider, the firm's new managing partner.

A 42-year-old St. Louis man is facing multiple felony charges in two counties for stealing more than $10,000 from the car dealership where he worked, driving a stolen vehicle and driving under the influence.

Police arrested a 25-year-old Alton man early Friday following a chase at speeds of 100 mph through three towns, ending along Illinois Route 143.

Donald and Janice Wolf of Wood River celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary Feb.

A worker checks out his efforts with a concrete saw Wednesday where he was sculpting a section of large storm sewer pipe for a custom fit on Illinois Route 111 near Lewis Street in Wood River.

Survivors include her husband, Conrad DuPriest; one son, Shawn Scoggins of Columbia, Mo.; one daughter, Angie Scoggins of East Alton, Ill.; one stepson, Morgan DuPriest of Kuttawa; five grandchildren; three sisters, Sandy Webb of Wood River, Ill., Sharon Kirk of Austin, Texas, and Diana Neilson of Bethalto, Ill.; several nieces; and one nephew.

Illinois State Police are awaiting the examination of evidence in last month's shooting of a 22-year-old suspected car thief by a Wood River police officer.

Lakin, 71, was scheduled for release in November on federal charges of supplying minors with cocaine.

The City of Wood River has agreed to keep rates the same in 2012 at Belk Park Golf Course.

An Ameren lineman hammers a bolt loose Tuesday while removing a transformer on a pole behind the fire-ravaged building that occupies the 600 block of East Broadway in Alton.

Born in Cottage Hills on Feb. 1, 1942, she was the daughter of Kenneth E. Ruble and Mildred Ruble Smith.

Joe's Pizza and Pasta has opened up its newest location at 144 E. Ferguson in Wood River, the former site of Sgt.

Wood River Police Chief Otis Steward surveys the car wash building at 215 Wood River Ave., next to the police department, which is being offered to the city as a donation from the owner.

State Rep. Dan Beiser, D-Alton, reads from a storybook, "Tag Along Fred," to students from Ginger Cramsey's first-grade class at Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Wood River during Friday's "Principal for a Day," an honorary program bringing area leaders through a day in the life of a school principal.

An employee of Maxedon Landscaping in Effingham, left, plants bushes around a lighted sign for the new CVS Pharmacy at the corner of Edwardsville Road and Wood River Avenue in Wood River this week as a Bobcat tractor delivers more mulch to the site.

Brad Lakin's law firm has a new name, new office locations, a leaner staff and a new managing partner.

For some, couponing is an art. For some it is an addiction. And for Rhonda Gravemann, it is a way to give back to the community.

I read the article about Mister Donut and started to think, "Where is a Mister Donut in Godfrey?" Then it hit me; it is in the North Alton area.

Oma Belle Locke, 107, passed away at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at Rosewood Care Center of Alton.

If Mother Nature ever gave anybody the cold shoulder, it was during the winter of 1982, when she dumped the mother of all snowstorms on the River Bend.