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Collinsville (Illinois)

Updated: Victim Says She Unknowingly Met Suspect Months after She Was Attacked

KSDK -- The young woman who was left for dead at Horsehoe Lake five months ago says she unknowingly met the suspect months after the attack. The victim and her friend were at McDill's bar in Collinsville, Illinois after she had...

10 great places to dig deep into our shared human past

To know where we're going, it's sometimes best to know where those who went before us have been. Historic Jamestowne Virginia "You can visit the excavations that recently exposed James Fort at this first permanent English...

Cahokia Mounds, the Late Woodland Culture

This 2,200-A0 (890HA) site is situated just to the east of St Louis, in southern Illinois, close to Collinsville (not, confusingly, near the town of Cahokia). It is the remains of a large city and ritual complex which was...

Copper thieves target vacant homes

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Police in Collinsville are warning homeowners that thieves seeking all things copper to sell for scrap have taken to pillaging vacant houses. Police say four homes have been burglarized in the...

Ill. trucker enters plea to wreck-related charges

CLAYTON, Mo. - An Illinois trucker who authorities blame for a chain-reaction accident on a Missouri freeway near St. Louis has avoided prison time. Fifty-four-year-old Edmond Contestabile Junior of Collinsville, Illinois,...

Scottrade Opening Edwardsville, Ill. Branch Office

Scottrade, a leading branch-supported online investment firm, will be the first online brokerage firm to open a branch office in Edwardsville, Ill. On Monday, Aug. 25 Scottrade will open a branch at 6655 Edwardsville Crossing...

McKinney, Mary Ruth

NEOGA - Mary Ruth McKinney, 80, of rural Neoga, Illinois, passed away at 11:40 p.m., Saturday, August 16, 2008, in the St. Anthony Memorial Hospital of Effingham, Illinois. Mary Ruth was born July 8, 1928, in Cumberland County,...

O'Loughlin sees opportunity in Illinois hotel scandal

Business columnist Joe Whittington Bob O'Loughlin has set about to wipe out what Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias labeled a "disgusting chapter in Illinois politics" — the Collinsville ­Holiday Inn. "We own the Sheraton...

Site Fight of the Week: Granite City, IL.

The town of Granite City, Illinois, takes great pride in putting people first. Now its residents are putting people before corporations by rallying against a proposed measure that would allow Wal-Mart to expand. Recently, the...

Racist tagger pleads guilty

COLLINSVILLE, Ill., July 23 (UPI) -- An Illinois man admitted he spray-painted racial threats and epithets on the home of a black couple and their white friend, U.S. officials said Wednesday. William Bowen, 25, pleaded guilty...

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