From terrifying crashes and derailments to gruesome decapitations and amputations, take a look back at the most horrific ride incidents of all time.

ALTON — Alton Police Officer Lane Lawson and his K9 partner, Riggs, graduated from the K9 Academy this past, the Alton Police ...

ALTON - The Grandpa Gang has been hard at work decorating Rock Springs Park for Christmas, but on Halloween night, the group ...

Thanks to all who wrote in to our Paul McLane after reading his love letter to radio towers, titled “I Love the Sticks." ...

October is here, and so is spooky season, where it is time to get those costumes out, put on a scary movie, and embrace the autumnal weather. One of the most popular things to do during this time of ...

Centerstone, located at 2615 Edwards St. in Alton, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 Two men work to install a new sign in front of Centerstone in Alton in early October 2025. ALTON — Centerstone in Alton has ...

ALTON — The City of Alton is getting another bird-themed mural on a Front Street building. On Monday, work was progressing on a mural of birds that wraps around three sides of 224 Front Street. The ...

Ever since my visit to the new Alton Towers scaremaze ‘Edge of the Forest’, I’ve been attempting to convince my son that the noises he heard, emanating from my general direction, were not of his ...

A salvage operation at Alton Park where customers pay an admission price, then pull the part they want off vehicles in the lot, has been sold for $12,260,274. Lkq Pick Your Part Southeast was bought ...

Bally’s has released a rendering of two new hotel towers headed to the Las Vegas Strip, bringing further detail to the plan to replace the Tropicana that sat for over six decades at the corner of ...

The City Council approved legislation Thursday to ramp up testing requirements of building cooling towers for Legionnaires’ Disease, after an outbreak in Harlem over the summer sickened 114 people, ...

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