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Route 3 work nearing completion

Work is progressing on the widening of Route 3 and other highway improvements in Waterloo as the project remains on schedule to be completed by the end of this year.…

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Helping Strays preparing for big move

When Helping Strays hosts its major annual fundraiser, “A Cause for Paws,” this year, it will be closing a chapter in the organization’s young but immeasurably successful life — it…

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Police Blotter | 3/23/2016

(Editor’s note: Information in this report is gathered directly from area police agencies, county courts and emergency radio dispatch. The public is reminded that defendants are presumed innocent until proven…

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Car flees traffic stop in Columbia

Illinois State Police issued an all points bulletin to area police agencies about 11 a.m. Tuesday after a gold 2005 Ford sedan with Missouri plates fled a traffic stop on…

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Man injured in tractor rollover near Waterloo

A man is recovering from broken bones and other injuries sustained when the tractor he was driving in the 3600 block of State Route 156 near Trout Camp Road just…

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Crash on I-255 near Dupo

Emergency personnel responded about 11:30 a.m. Sunday to a single-vehicle crash with possible injury on I-255 northbound near the Dupo exit in St. Clair County. The vehicle involved was an…

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Fire call on Gilmore Lake Road

The Waterloo Fire Department was joined by Monroe County EMS and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department in responding to a property at 8800 Gilmore Lake Road for a small smokehouse…

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Special prosecutor appointed in Edwards case

In a step that may indicate a decision on charges is forthcoming, a judge last week formally granted an order to appoint a special prosecutor in the case involving Joe…

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Columbia, Dupo partner on development

Good neighbors help each other out. They can make life better for each other. But rarely do they share in the rewards of their relationship in a way the neighboring…

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Scrambled setting sights on musical success

A local acoustic trio is laying it all out there with hopes of making it big in the music business down the long and winding road. Scrambled, which consists of…

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