Alton, Il

Lawmakers urge bill for river shipping
Alton Telegraph
As adjutant general of the Illinois National Guard, he led response efforts to the flooding of 2011 and was made aware of the destruction that comes about when the water tops the riverbanks. Davis said efficient river navigation is extremely important ...

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Crashes shut down Clark Bridge
Alton Telegraph
The Illinois Department of Transportation is responsible for maintaining the bridge. However, Dorsey said police called in a salt truck from the Alton Public Works Department to treat the slippery surface, because it could get to the bridge more quickly.

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Bill would limit protests at military funerals
Alton Telegraph
"Over the past several years, protesters have tried to use the funeral services of our brave men and women who fought and died for us as a venue to spew their distorted political views," said Beiser, D-Alton. "This behavior is painful for the friends ...

Doctor Stops During Half to Help Ailing Runner
Runner's World Newswire
As The Telegraph reports, John Wuellner, M.D., was running with two friends in last Saturday's The Telegraph Half-Marathon in Alton, Illinois. About ten miles into the race, they saw a runner who was weaving, but, when Wuellner queried him, said he was ...

Onward State
Penn State Wrestling Needs a Stronger 2013 Schedule
Onward State
Despite only six conference games, second place Oklahoma State still managed to schedule 15 duals outside of its conference and elite duals with six of the top 11 seeded teams — Minnesota (twice), Iowa, Missouri (twice), Cornell, Oklahoma (twice), and ...

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Bloomington-Normal airport board to discuss tower closure
The State Journal-Register
St. Louis Regional Airport in East Alton, Decatur Airport, Southern Illinois Airport in Carbondale and Waukegan Regional Airport near Chicago are also on the closing list. The control tower at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield is not affected.
So IL Congressman Meets with Airport OfficialsWSIU

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Alton Daily News
ID Badges Possible for All Medical Workers
Alton Daily News
All healthcare workers across the state could soon be required to wear ID Badges. Democrat State Rep Lawrence Walsh is behind a proposal. He says someone in his district had a scare when they took their mother to the doctor and an unidentified worker ...

Relative issue: Other conservatives besides John Roberts have gay relatives
Chicago Tribune
Even so, he went into the family business as a lawyer for Eagle Forum, his mother's Alton, Ill.-based organization, which identifies as one of its core issues the defeat of the "homosexual agenda." — Bonnie Miller Rubin. Copyright © 2013 Chicago ...

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Pallid sturgeon 'stable'
Southeast Missourian
Commercial shovelnose sturgeon and shovelnose-pallid sturgeon hybrid fishing is prohibited in Missouri in the entire Missouri River and in the Mississippi River south of Melvin Price Locks and Dam near Alton, Ill., according to the Missouri Department ...

Alton Daily News
Senate May Expand Online Lottery
Alton Daily News
The Illinois Senate could soon decide to increase the number of ways you can play the lottery online. A committee has passed a bill that would allow players to wager on any of the “draw-based” games – that is, in which the winning numbers are randomly ...

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Alton Daily News
Early Voting Has Begun
Alton Daily News
Monday marked the beginning of early voting for the April 9 local elections in Illinois. The early period ends three days before Election Day, but State Sen. Kwame Raoul (D-Chicago) is sponsoring a bill to let it run right up to the day before Election ...

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Alton Daily News
Teen Charged in Heroin Death
Alton Daily News
A 19-year-old Pierron woman is charged with Drug Induced Homicide after a Friday morning heroin death in Troy, Illinois. Investigators say Elizabeth F. Brown (pictured) provided the heroin that killed 18-year-old Charles T. Gammon at his home. Police ...

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Alton Daily News
Winter Storm Sets Records
Alton Daily News
The storm swept through the midwest and central Illinois, dumping 12 point four inches on St. Louis, 18 point five in Springfield, and about 11 and a half in Champaign. State climatologist Jim Angel says totals like that make up for a fairly dry winter.

District Agrees To Electric Aggregation
Alton Daily News
As the state of Illinois continues to slash education funding, school districts are finding new ways to cut costs. One of the ways the Bethalto School District will save money is through electric aggregation. Board members approved a 24 month agreement ...

Alton Exchange Club banquet set for April 14
Alton Telegraph
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville coaches Lennox Forrester and Paula Buscher are expected to be the featured speakers. Players from Alton, Marquette Catholic, Civic Memorial, Roxana and East Alton-Wood River will be saluted. The Exchange Club ...

Snow brings down trees in Grafton area
Alton Telegraph
The Illinois Department of Transportation cleared the fallen debris from Illinois Route 3 in Grafton, which blocked residents from exiting the street, and from Illinois Route 100, Sullivan said. Motorists reported trees falling onto the highway from ...

Crews, cops have hands full
Alton Telegraph
Jeff Dublo of Fred's Towing in Alton hooks up to an Alton city snowplow Monday after it got stuck in a ditch on Wilkinson Street near Mills Street. City crews were working valiantly to clear the more than 12 inches of snow from primary and secondary ...

Miller: Quinn irritating legislators over university board moves
SouthtownStar
A recent meeting between Metro East legislators and Gov. Pat Quinn's staff turned heated at times, and as a result nothing was accomplished in the standoff over Quinn's appointments to the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees. ... Bill Haine ...

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Granite City-based lunch program pushing to win $20000 grant
STLtoday.com
The St. Louis Area Foodbank nominated TWIGS and two other agencies out of 524 food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters and other groups that work with the foodbank in 26 counties in Illinois and Missouri. "We chose them based on their service ...

Alton Daily News
Unemployment Rate Jumps
Alton Daily News
“Businesses are hiring, and we're seeing some nice job growth, but that growth is not yet enough to absorb all of the people who are coming back into the workforce who had been sitting on the sidelines,” said Greg Rivara of the Illinois Department of ...