Montgomery County News

Last updated on 10/21/2009 at 12:09 a.m. St. Charles East High School is closing its doors from Wednesday through Friday after more than 900 students stayed home sick with flu-like symptoms.

BUTLER TWP., Montgomery County - Julie Sheil said she's not looking for revenge after a large dog killed her miniature dachshund, Sophie, Monday, Oct.

I'm writing to congratulate the people who work at the Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services.

" September 19, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today announced a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership between the State of Illinois, local governments, Norlight Telecommunications, Motorola, and Royell Communications that will bring high-speed, affordable broadband Internet service to the counties of Macoupin and Montgomery.

The New York Times reports that a startup company, Envion, is opening a $5 million plant that it says will annually convert 6,000 tons of plastic into nearly a million barrels of something resembling oil.

A judge gave the owner of two pitbulls a suspended 90-day jail sentence Thursday, Sept.

Photo: I can almost smell the rock and roll. Credit: J. Deseo/SSP. Montgomery County officials and a local developer are at the "one-yard line" in talks to bring the Fillmore music-hall project into the end zone and score that elusive touchdown.

A Wood River man drowned Friday night in a private pond in Montgomery County, authorities reported Monday.

Authorities in southern Illinois say a 55-year-old man drowned in a private pond in Montgomery County.

A minor-league pitcher accused of throwing a baseball during a brawl that struck and injured a fan in the stands had been angry and decided to hurt someone, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Lawsuits filed by the families of 2 students slain in the mass killings as Virginia Tech have been transferred to the jurisdiction where the school is located.

Photo: Any day now. Credit: J. Deseo/SSP. TalksA are still rollingA between Montgomery County and the developer of downtown's music-hall project , but negotiations could wrap sometime this summer, one county official reported.

Montgomery County has its first confirmed case of H1N1 flu. Montgomery County Health Commissioner Jim Gross said the patient is a 16-year-old male student at Vandalia Butler High School.

The Montgomery County Economic Development/Government Equity Advisory Committee on Friday, May 15, recommended funding seven projects with $1.2 million from the county's 2009 Primary Economic Development Fund of ED/GE. The funding recommendations will be considered by county commissioners at a meeting on May 19.

A Chester County woman who was charged in a fatal drunken-driving crash has violated her bail, prosecutors said yesterday.

A Litchfield man has filed suit in Montgomery County alleging he was sexually abused as a youth by Paul Kincaid, a 67-year-old Litchfield man currently serving a 30-year federal prison sentence for manufacture and possession of child pornography.

A methodical search for a missing boater on Lake Lou Yaeger in Montgomery County resumed early Thursday morning.

A Montgomery County lake from which divers have pulled the body of a 49-year-old man was the same place where his sister drowned 14 years earlier.

Emergency crews and volunteers continue to search a lake in Montgomery County, Illinois for a missing boater.

Two people are dead after a car crash in Montgomery County. The sheriff's office says Derek R. Boas was driving West on Butler Lane, two miles North of Hillsboro, when he ran a stop sign and hit another car with his truck.